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Word Meanings - MEDALIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A person that is skilled or curious in medals; a collector of medals. Addison. 2. A designer of medals. Macaulay. 3. One who has gained a medal as the reward of merit.

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  • GAINPAIN
    Bread-gainer; -- a term applied in the Middle Ages to the sword of a hired soldier.
  • SKILLFUL
    1. Discerning; reasonable; judicious; cunning. "Of skillful judgment." Chaucer. 2. Possessed of, or displaying, skill; knowing and ready; expert; well-versed; able in management; as, a skillful mechanic; -- often followed by at, in, or of; as,
  • REWARDFUL
    Yielding reward.
  • GAINSOME
    1. Gainful. 2. Prepossessing; well-favored. Massinger.
  • PERSONNEL
    The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel.
  • PERSONIFICATION
    A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying;
  • MEDAL PLAY
    Play in which the score is reckoned by counting the number of strokes.
  • GAINSAY
    To contradict; to deny; to controvert; to dispute; to forbid. I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist. Luke xxi. 15. The just gods gainsay That any drop thou borrow'dst from thy mother,
  • GAINLY
    Handily; readily; dexterously; advantageously. Dr. H. More.
  • SKILLED
    Having familiar knowledge united with readiness and dexterity in its application; familiarly acquainted with; expert; skillful; -- often followed by in; as, a person skilled in drawing or geometry.
  • PERSONIZE
    To personify. Milton has personized them. J. Richardson.
  • SKILLIGALEE
    A kind of thin, weak broth or oatmeal porridge, served out to prisoners and paupers in England; also, a drink made of oatmeal, sugar, and water, sometimes used in the English navy or army.
  • GAINSAYER
    One who gainsays, contradicts, or denies. "To convince the gainsayers." Tit. i. 9.
  • PERSONATOR
    One who personates. "The personators of these actions." B. Jonson.
  • GAINAGE
    The horses, oxen, plows, wains or wagons and implements for carrying on tillage. The profit made by tillage; also, the land itself. Bouvier.
  • MEDALET
    A small medal.
  • MERITHAL; MERITHALLUS
    See INTERNODE
  • MERITORY
    Meritorious.
  • MERITOT
    A play of children, in swinging on ropes, or the like, till they are dizzy.
  • CURIOUSLY
    In a curious manner.
  • REWARD
    To give in return, whether good or evil; -- commonly in a good sense; to requite; to recompense; to repay; to compensate. After the deed that is done, one doom shall reward, Mercy or no mercy as truth will accord. Piers Plowman. Thou hast rewarded
  • TEMERITY
    Unreasonable contempt of danger; extreme venturesomeness; rashness; as, the temerity of a commander in war. Syn. -- Rashness; precipitancy; heedlessness; venturesomeness. -- Temerity, Rashness. These words are closely allied in sense, but have a
  • THEREAGAIN
    In opposition; against one's course. If that him list to stand thereagain. Chaucer.
  • SHOREWARD
    Toward the shore.
  • EMERITUS
    Honorably discharged from the performance of public duty on account of age, infirmity, or long and faithful services; -- said of an officer of a college or pastor of a church. (more info) emerere, emereri, to obtain by service, serve out one's
  • AGAINSTAND
    To withstand.
  • BARGAINER
    One who makes a bargain; -- sometimes in the sense of bargainor.
  • MERIT
    deserve, merit; prob. originally, to get a share; akin to Gr. Market, 1. The quality or state of deserving well or ill; desert. Here may men see how sin hath his merit. Chaucer. Be it known, that we, the greatest, are misthought For things that
  • UNIPERSONAL
    Used in only one person, especially only in the third person, as some verbs; impersonal. (more info) 1. Existing as one, and only one, person; as, a unipersonal God.
  • AGAINSAY
    To gainsay. Wyclif.

 

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