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Word Meanings - LETTERED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Literate; educated; versed in literature. " Are you not lettered" Shak. The unlettered barbarians willingly accepted the aid of the lettered clergy, still chiefly of Roman birth, to reduce to writing the institutes of their forefathers. Milman.

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1. Literate; educated; versed in literature. " Are you not lettered" Shak. The unlettered barbarians willingly accepted the aid of the lettered clergy, still chiefly of Roman birth, to reduce to writing the institutes of their forefathers. Milman. 2. Of or pertaining to learning or literature; learned. " A lettered education." Collier. 3. Inscribed or stamped with letters. Addison.

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  • STILL
    1. A vessel, boiler, or copper used in the distillation of liquids; specifically, one used for the distillation of alcoholic liquors; a retort. The name is sometimes applied to the whole apparatus used in in vaporization and condensation. 2. A
  • ACCEPTABLE
    Capable, worthy, or sure of being accepted or received with pleasure; pleasing to a receiver; gratifying; agreeable; welcome; as, an acceptable present, one acceptable to us.
  • WRITING
    1. The act or art of forming letters and characters on paper, wood, stone, or other material, for the purpose of recording the ideas which characters and words express, or of communicating them to others by visible signs. 2. Anything written or
  • VERSET
    A verse. Milton.
  • STILLBIRTH
    The birth of a dead fetus.
  • STILLY
    Still; quiet; calm. The stilly hour when storms are gone. Moore.
  • VERSEMAN
    See PRIOR
  • REDUCEMENT
    Reduction. Milton.
  • VERSABLENESS
    Versability.
  • ROMANY
    1. A gypsy.
  • VERS DE SOCIETE
    See SOCIETY
  • ROMANTICAL
    Romantic.
  • WRITATIVE
    Inclined to much writing; -- correlative to talkative. Pope.
  • ACCEPTOR
    One who accepts; specifically ,
  • ROMANISH
    Pertaining to Romanism.
  • REDUCE
    To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from
  • EDUCATIONIST
    One who is versed in the theories of, or who advocates and promotes, education.
  • WILLINGLY
    In a willing manner; with free will; without reluctance; cheerfully. Chaucer. The condition of that people is not so much to be envied as some would willingly represent it. Addison.
  • STILLSTAND
    A standstill. Shak.
  • ROMANTICIST
    One who advocates romanticism in modern literature. J. R. Seeley.
  • CONTROVERSER
    A disputant.
  • DIVERSIFORM
    Of a different form; of varied forms.
  • REVERSED
    Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree. Reversed positive or negative , a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. Abney. (more info) 1. Turned side for side,
  • UNIVERSITY
    universitas all together, the whole, the universe, a number of persons associated into one body, a society, corporation, fr. 1. The universe; the whole. Dr. H. More. 2. An association, society, guild, or corporation, esp. one capable of having
  • AVERSENESS
    The quality of being averse; opposition of mind; unwillingness.
  • OVERSHOT
    From Overshoot, v. t. Overshot wheel, a vertical water wheel, the circumference of which is covered with cavities or buckets, and which is turned by water which shoots over the top of it, filling the buckets on the farther side and acting chiefly
  • REWRITE
    To write again. Young.
  • INSTILL
    To drop in; to pour in drop by drop; hence, to impart gradually; to infuse slowly; to cause to be imbibed. That starlight dews All silently their tears of love instill. Byron. How hast thou instilled Thy malice into thousands. Milton. Syn. -- To
  • REVERSION
    The returning of an esttate to the grantor or his heirs, by operation of law, after the grant has terminated; hence, the residue of an estate left in the proprietor or owner thereof, to take effect in possession, by operation of law, after
  • ESTOVERS
    Necessaries or supples; an allowance to a person out of an estate or other thing for support; as of wood to a tenant for life, etc., of sustenance to a man confined for felony of his estate, or alimony to a woman divorced out of her husband's
  • DIVERS
    directions, different, p. p. of divertere. See Divert, and cf. 1. Different in kind or species; diverse. Every sect of them hath a divers posture. Bacon. Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds. Deut. xxii. 9. 2. Several; sundry; various;
  • CONTROVERSAL
    1. Turning or looking opposite ways. The temple of Janus, with his two controversal faces. Milton. 2. Controversal. Boyle.
  • ILLITERATE
    Ignorant of letters or books; unlettered; uninstructed; uneducated; as, an illiterate man, or people. Syn. -- Ignorant; untaught; unlearned; unlettered; unscholary. See Ignorant. -- Il*lit"er*ate*ly, adv. -- Il*lit"er*ate*ness, n.
  • PISTILLIFEROUS
    Pistillate.
  • BLACK LETTER
    The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type.
  • ACCEPT
    To receive as obligatory and promise to pay; as, to accept a bill of exchange. Bouvier. 6. In a deliberate body, to receive in acquittance of a duty imposed; bill , to agree to pay it when due. -- To accept service , to agree that a writ or

 

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