Word Meanings - MALTREATMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Ill treatment; ill usage; abuse.

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• TREATMENT
  1. The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment. 2. Entertainment; treat. Accept such treatment as a swain affords. Pope.
• USAGE
  1. The act of using; mode of using or treating; treatment; conduct with respect to a person or a thing; as, good usage; ill usage; hard usage. My brother Is prisoner to the bishop here, at whose hands He hath good usage and great liberty. Shak.
• ABUSER
  One who abuses .
• ABUSE
  1. To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to misuse; to put to a bad use; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert; as, to abuse inherited gold; to make an excessive use of; as, to abuse one's authority. This principle shoots rapidly
• USAGER
  One who has the use of anything in trust for another. Daniel.
• ABUSEFUL
  Full of abuse; abusive. "Abuseful names." Bp. Barlow.
• RETREATMENT
  The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira. D'Urfey.
• MALTREATMENT
  Ill treatment; ill usage; abuse.
• HOUSAGE
  A fee for keeping goods in a house. Chambers.
• SELF-ABUSE
  1. The abuse of one's own self, powers, or faculties. 2. Self-deception; delusion. Shak. 3. Masturbation; onanism; self-pollution.
• DISUSAGE
  Gradual cessation of use or custom; neglect of use; disuse. Hooker.
• SPOUSAGE
  Espousal. Bale.
• ESPOUSAGE
  Espousal. Latimer.
• MISUSAGE
  Bad treatment; abuse. Spenser.
• SAUSAGE
  1. An article of food consisting of meat minced and highly seasoned, and inclosed in a cylindrical case or skin usually made of the prepared intestine of some animal. 2. A saucisson. See Saucisson. Wilhelm.
• NAUHEIM TREATMENT; NAUHEIM BATH
  Orig., a method of therapeutic treatment administered, esp. for chronic diseases of the curculatory system, at Bad Nauheim, Germany, by G. Schott, consisting in baths in the natural mineral waters of that place, which are charged with carbonic acid,
• UNUSAGE
  Want or lack of usage. Chaucer.
• SUPERPLUSAGE
  Surplusage. "There yet remained a superplusage." Bp. Fell.
• ENTREATMENT
  Entreaty; invitation. Shak.
• MISTREATMENT
  Wrong treatment.