Word Meanings - LETTERURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Letters; literature. "To teach him letterure and courtesy." Chaucer.

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• TEACHER
  1. One who teaches or instructs; one whose business or occupation is to instruct others; an instructor; a tutor. 2. One who instructs others in religion; a preacher; a minister of the gospel; sometimes, one who preaches without regular ordination.
• TEACHABLENESS
  Willingness to be taught.
• LETTERURE
  Letters; literature. "To teach him letterure and courtesy." Chaucer.
• TEACH
  1. To impart the knowledge of; to give intelligence concerning; to impart, as knowledge before unknown, or rules for practice; to inculcate as true or important; to exhibit impressively; as, to teach arithmetic, dancing, music, or the like; to
• TEACHE
  One of the series of boilers in which the cane juice is treated in making sugar; especially, the last boiler of the series. Ure. (more info) Works)
• TEACHABLE
  Capable of being taught; apt to learn; also, willing to receive instruction; docile. We ought to bring our minds free, unbiased, and teachable, to learn our religion from the Word of God. I. Watts.
• TEACHLESS
  Not teachable. Shelley.
• LITERATURE
  1. Learning; acquaintance with letters or books. 2. The collective body of literary productions, embracing the entire results of knowledge and fancy preserved in writing; also, the whole body of literary productions or writings upon a
• COURTESY
  corteisie, courtesie, OF. curteisie, cortoisie, OF. curteisie, 1. Politeness; civility; urbanity; courtliness. And trust thy honest-offered courtesy, With oft is sooner found in lowly sheds, With smoky rafters, than in tapestry walls And courts
• TEACHING
  The act or business of instructing; also, that which is taught; instruction. Syn. -- Education; instruction; breeding. See Education.
• SCHOOL-TEACHER
  One who teaches or instructs a school. -- School"-teach`ing, n.
• WISDOM LITERATURE
  The class of ancient Hebrew writings which deal reflectively with general ethical and religious topics, as distinguished from the prophetic and liturgical literature, and from the law. It is comprised chiefly in the books of Job, Proverbs,
• DISCOURTESY
  Rudeness of behavior or language; ill manners; manifestation of disrespect; incivility. Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth discourtesy. Herbert.
• FORETEACH
  To teach beforehand.
• UNTEACH
  1. To cause to forget, or to lose from memory, or to disbelieve what has been taught. Experience will unteach us. Sir T. Browne. One breast laid open were a school Which would unteach mankind the lust to shine or rule. Byron. 2. To cause to be
• ILLITERATURE
  Want of learning; illiteracy. Ayliffe. Southey.
• MISTEACH
  To teach wrongly; to instruct erroneously.