Word Meanings - LICK-SPITTLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An abject flatterer or parasite. Theodore Hook.

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• ABJECT
  1. Cast down; low-lying. From the safe shore their floating carcasses And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood. Milton. 2. Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile;
• ABJECTEDNESS
  A very abject or low condition; abjectness. Boyle.
• PARASITE
  1. One who frequents the tables of the rich, or who lives at another's expense, and earns his welcome by flattery; a hanger-on; a toady; a sycophant. Thou, with trembling fear, Or like a fawning parasite, obey'st. Milton. Parasites were called
• ABJECTLY
  Meanly; servilely.
• ABJECTNESS
  The state of being abject; abasement; meanness; servility. Grew.
• ABJECTION
  1. The act of bringing down or humbling. "The abjection of the king and his realm." Joe. 2. The state of being rejected or cast out. An adjection from the beatific regions where God, and his angels and saints, dwell forever. Jer. Taylor. 3. A low
• FLATTERER
  One who flatters. The most abject flaterers degenerate into the greatest tyrants. Addison.
• MICROPARASITE
  A parasitic microörganism. -- Mi`cro*par`a*sit"ic , a.
• SUPPARASITE
  To flatter; to cajole; to act the parasite. Dr. R. Clerke.
• MALARIA PARASITE
  Any of several minute protozoans of the genus Plasmodium (syn. Hæmatozoön) which in their adult condition live in the tissues of mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles and when transferred to the blood of man, by the bite of the mosquito, produce
• ENDOPARASITE
  Any parasite which lives in the internal organs of an animal, as the tapeworms, Trichina, etc.; -- opposed to ectoparasite. See Entozoön. -- En`do*par`a*sit"ic, a.
• ECTOPARASITE
  Any parasite which lives on the exterior of animals; -- opposed to endoparasite. -- Ec`to*par`a*sit"ic, a.