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Word Meanings - LEGEND - Book Publishers vocabulary database
fr. L. legendus to be read, fr. legere to read, gather; akin to Gr. 1. That which is appointed to be read; especially, a chronicle or register of the lives of saints, formerly read at matins, and in the refectories of religious houses. 2. A story
Additional info about word: LEGEND
fr. L. legendus to be read, fr. legere to read, gather; akin to Gr. 1. That which is appointed to be read; especially, a chronicle or register of the lives of saints, formerly read at matins, and in the refectories of religious houses. 2. A story respecting saints; especially, one of a marvelous nature. Addison. 3. Any wonderful story coming down from the past, but not verifiable by historical record; a myth; a fable. And in this legend all that glorious deed. Read, whilst you arm you. Fairfax. 4. An inscription, motto, or title, esp. one surrounding the field in a medal or coin, or placed upon an heraldic shield or beneath an engraving or illustration. Golden legend. See under Golden.
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- STORY-WRITER
1. One who writes short stories, as for magazines. 2. An historian; a chronicler. "Rathums, the story-writer." 1 Esdr. ii. 17. - STORYBOOK
A book containing stories, or short narratives, either true or false. - FICTIONIST
A writer of fiction. Lamb. - FICTION
An assumption of a possible thing as a fact, irrespective of the question of its truth. Wharton. 5. Any like assumption made for convenience, as for passing more rapidly over what is not disputed, and arriving at points really at issue. Syn. -- - FABLE
1. A Feigned story or tale, intended to instruct or amuse; a fictitious narration intended to enforce some useful truth or precept; an apologue. See the Note under Apologue. Jotham's fable of the trees is the oldest extant. Addison 2. The plot, - STORY-TELLER
1. One who tells stories; a narrator of anecdotes,incidents, or fictitious tales; as, an amusing story-teller. 2. An historian; -- in contempt. Swift. 3. A euphemism or child's word for "a liar." - ALLEGORY
A figure representation which has a meaning beyond notion directly conveyed by the object painted or sculptured. Syn. -- Metaphor; fable. -- Allegory, Parable. "An allegory differs both from fable and parable, in that the properties of persons are - FICTIONAL
Pertaining to, or characterized by, fiction; fictitious; romantic."Fictional rather than historical." Latham. - FABLER
A writer of fables; a fabulist; a dealer in untruths or falsehoods. Br. Hall. - LEGEND
fr. L. legendus to be read, fr. legere to read, gather; akin to Gr. 1. That which is appointed to be read; especially, a chronicle or register of the lives of saints, formerly read at matins, and in the refectories of religious houses. 2. A story - LEGENDARY
Of or pertaining to a legend or to legends; consisting of legends; like a legend; fabulous. "Legendary writers." Bp. Lloyd. Legendary stories of nurses and old women. Bourne. - PARABLE
Procurable. Sir T. Browne. - FABRICATION
1. The act of fabricating, framing, or constructing; construction; manufacture; as, the fabrication of a bridge, a church, or a government. Burke. 2. That which is fabricated; a falsehood; as, the story is doubtless a fabrication. Syn. - STORY
A set of rooms on the same floor or level; a floor, or the space between two floors. Also, a horizontal division of a building's exterior considered architecturally, which need not correspond exactly with the stories within. Note: A story - FABULOUS
1. Feigned, as a story or fable; related in fable; devised; invented; not real; fictitious; as, a fabulous description; a fabulous hero. The fabulous birth of Minerva. Chesterfield. 2. Passing belief; exceedingly great; as, a fabulous - SUPPOSITION
under, a substitution, fr. supponere, suppositium, to put under, to substitute. The word has the meaning corresponding to suppose. See 1. The act of supposing, laying down, imagining, or considering as true or existing, what is known not to be - SUPPOSITIONAL
Resting on supposition; hypothetical; conjectural; supposed. South. - STORY-TELLING
Being accustomed to tell stories. -- n. - INEFFABLENESS
The quality or state of being ineffable or unutterable; unspeakableness. - CLERESTORY
See CLEARSTORY - FALDISTORY
The throne or seat of a bishop within the chancel. (more info) faldstuol; faldan, faltan, to fold + stuol stool. So called because it could be folded or laid together. See Fold, and - EFFABLE
Capable of being uttered or explained; utterable. Barrow. - PRESUPPOSITION
1. The act of presupposing; an antecedent implication; presumption. 2. That which is presupposed; a previous supposition or surmise. - REPARABLE
Capable of being repaired, restored to a sound or good state, or made good; restorable; as, a reparable injury. - CONSISTORY
The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere. Hook. (more info) consistorium a place of assembly, the place where the emperor's council met, fr. consistere: cf. - MISCHIEFABLE
Mischievous. Lydgate. - INEFFABLE
Incapable of being expresses in words; unspeakable; unutterable; indescribable; as, the ineffable joys of heaven. Contentment with our lot . . . will diffuse ineffable contenBeattie. - CLERSTORY
See CLEARSTORY - SEPARABLE
Capable of being separated, disjoined, disunited, or divided; as, the separable parts of plants; qualities not separable from the substance in which they exist. -- Sep"a*ra*ble*ness, n. -- Sep"a*ra*bly, adv. Trials permit me not to doubt of the - COMPARABLE
Capable of being compared; worthy of comparison. There is no blessing of life comparable to the enjoyment of a discreet and virtuous friend. Addison. -- Com"pa*ra*ble*ness, n. -- Com"pa*ra*bly, adv. - AFFABLE
1. Easy to be spoken to or addressed; receiving others kindly and conversing with them in a free and friendly manner; courteous; sociable. An affable and courteous gentleman. Shak. His manners polite and affable. Macaulay. 2. Gracious;