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.
Related words: (words related to MEDALIST)
- 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.