Word Meanings - MARITAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Of or pertaining to a husband; as, marital rights, duties, authority. "Marital affection." Ayliffe.
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- AFFECTION
Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. Most wretched man, That to affections - HUSBANDABLE
Capable of being husbanded, or managed with economy. Sherwood. - HUSBANDLESS
Destitute of a husband. Shak. - AFFECTIONED
1. Disposed. Be kindly affectioned one to another. Rom. xii. 10. 2. Affected; conceited. Shak. - AFFECTIONATED
Disposed; inclined. Affectionated to the people. Holinshed. - AFFECTIONATE
1. Having affection or warm regard; loving; fond; as, an affectionate brother. 2. Kindly inclined; zealous. Johson. Man, in his love God, and desire to please him, can never be too affectionate. Sprat. 3. Proceeding from affection; indicating - HUSBANDRY
1. Care of domestic affairs; economy; domestic management; thrift. There's husbandry in heaven; Their candles are all out. Shak. 2. The business of a husbandman, comprehending the various branches of agriculture; farming. Husbandry supplieth all - HUSBANDLY
Frugal; thrifty. Tusser. - AUTHORITY
1. Legal or rightful power; a right to command or to act; power exercised buy a person in virtue of his office or trust; dominion; jurisdiction; authorization; as, the authority of a prince over subjects, and of parents over children; the authority - AFFECTIONAL
Of or pertaining to the affections; as, affectional impulses; an affectional nature. - PERTAIN
stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant - AFFECTIONATENESS
The quality of being affectionate; fondness; affection. - HUSBANDAGE
The commission or compensation allowed to a ship's husband. - AFFECTIONATELY
With affection; lovingly; fondly; tenderly; kindly. - HUSBAND
the house or family, AS. h master of the house; h house + bunda, bonda, householder, husband; prob. fr. Icel. h house master, husband; h house + b dwelling, inhabiting, p.pr. of b to dwell; akin to AS. b, 1. The male head of a household; one who - HUSBANDMAN
1. The master of a family. Chaucer. 2. A farmer; a cultivator or tiller of the ground. - MARITAL
Of or pertaining to a husband; as, marital rights, duties, authority. "Marital affection." Ayliffe. - MISAFFECTION
An evil or wrong affection; the state of being ill affected. Bp. Hall. - DISAFFECTIONATE
Not disposed to affection; unfriendly; disaffected. Blount. - BRIGHTSOME
Bright; clear; luminous; brilliant. Marlowe. - DISAFFECTION
1. State of being disaffected; alienation or want of affection or good will, esp. toward those in authority; unfriendliness; dislike. In the making laws, princes must have regard to . . . the affections and disaffections of the people. Jer. Taylor.