Word Meanings - MAJESTICAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Majestic. Cowley. An older architecture, greater, cunninger, more majestical. M. Arnold. -- Ma*jes"tic*al*ly, adv. -- Ma*jes"tic*al*ness, n.

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• MAJESTICNESS
  The quality or state of being majestic. Oldenburg.
• MAJESTICAL
  Majestic. Cowley. An older architecture, greater, cunninger, more majestical. M. Arnold. -- Ma*jes"tic*al*ly, adv. -- Ma*jes"tic*al*ness, n.
• ARCHITECTURE
  1. The art or science of building; especially, the art of building houses, churches, bridges, and other structures, for the purposes of civil life; -- often called civil architecture. Many other architectures besides Gothic. Ruskin. 3.
• MAJESTIC
  Possessing or exhibiting majesty; of august dignity, stateliness, or imposing grandeur; lofty; noble; grand. "The majestic world." Shak. "Tethys'grave majestic pace." Milton. The least portions must be of the epic kind; all must be grave, majestic,
• SCOLDER
  1. One who scolds. The oyster catcher; -- so called from its shrill cries. The old squaw.
• MOLDER; MOULDER
  One who, or that which, molds or forms into shape; specifically , one skilled in the art of making molds for castings.
• COPYHOLDER
  One possessed of land in copyhold. A device for holding copy for a compositor. One who reads copy to a proof reader.
• HIGH-HOLDER
  The flicker; -- called also high-hole.
• BEHOLDER
  One who beholds; a spectator.
• OFFICEHOLDER
  An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
• GEORGIAN ARCHITECTURE
  British or British colonial architecture of the period of the four Georges, especially that of the period before 1800.
• CANDLEHOLDER
  One who, or that which, holds a candle; also, one who assists another, but is otherwise not of importance. Shak.
• UNFOLDER
  One who, or that which, unfolds.
• BOOKHOLDER
  1. A prompter at a theater. Beau & Fl. 2. A support for a book, holding it open, while one reads or copies from it.
• HOLDER-FORTH
  One who speaks in public; an haranguer; a preacher. Addison.
• BONDHOLDER
  A person who holds the bonds of a public or private corporation for the payment of money at a certain time.
• SMOLDERINGNESS; SMOULDERINGNESS
  The state of smoldering.
• FOLDER
  One who, or that which, folds; esp., a flat, knifelike instrument used for folding paper.
• HOLDER
  One who is employed in the hold of a vessel.
• INNHOLDER
  One who keeps an inn.
• WOOLDER
  A stick used to tighten the rope in woolding.
• UNSOLDER
  To separate or disunite, as what has been soldered; hence, to divide; to sunder. Tennyson.
• SMOLDERING; SMOULDERING
  Being in a state of suppressed activity; quiet but not dead. Some evil chance Will make the smoldering scandal break and blaze. Tennyson.