Word Meanings - MISALTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To alter wrongly; esp., to alter for the worse. Bp. Hall.

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• ALTERNATING CURRENT
  A current which periodically changes or reverses its direction of flow.
• ALTERNATION
  Permutation. 3. The response of the congregation speaking alternately with the minister. Mason. Alternation of generation. See under Generation. (more info) 1. The reciprocal succession of things in time or place; the act of following and being
• ALTERNAT
  A usage, among diplomats, of rotation in precedence among representatives of equal rank, sometimes determined by lot and at other times in regular order. The practice obtains in the signing of treaties and conventions between nations.
• ALTERATION
  1. The act of altering or making different. Alteration, though it be from worse to better, hath in it incoveniences. Hooker. 2. The state of being altered; a change made in the form or nature of a thing; changed condition. Ere long might perceive
• ALTERNATIVE
  1. An offer of two things, one of which may be chosen, but not both; a choice between two things, so that if one is taken, the other must be left. There is something else than the mere alternative of absolute destruction or unreformed existence.
• ALTERNATENESS
  The quality of being alternate, or of following by turns.
• ALTERNATIVENESS
  The quality of being alternative, or of offering a choice between two.
• WORSE
  1. Loss; disadvantage; defeat. "Judah was put to the worse before Israel." Kings xiv. 12. 2. That which is worse; something less good; as, think not the worse of him for his enterprise.
• ALTERABILITY
  The quality of being alterable; alterableness.
• WORSER
  Worse. Thou dost deserve a worser end. Beau. & Fl. From worser thoughts which make me do amiss. Bunyan. A dreadful quiet felt, and, worser far Than arms, a sullen interval of war. Dryden. Note: This old and redundant form of the comparative occurs
• ALTERABLY
  In an alterable manner.
• ALTERNANT
  Composed of alternate layers, as some rocks.
• ALTERITY
  The state or quality of being other; a being otherwise. For outness is but the feeling of otherness rendered intuitive, or alterity visually represented. Coleridge.
• ALTERABLE
  Capable of being altered. Our condition in this world is mutable and uncertain, alterable by a thousand accidents. Rogers.
• WORSEN
  1. To make worse; to deteriorate; to impair. It is apparent that, in the particular point of which we have been conversing, their condition is greatly worsened. Southey. 2. To get the better of; to worst.
• ALTERANT
  Altering; gradually changing. Bacon.
• ALTERNITY
  Succession by turns; alternation. Sir T. Browne.
• ALTERNATE
  1. To happen, succeed, or act by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or time; -- followed by with; as, the flood and ebb tides alternate with each other. Rage, shame, and grief alternate in his breast. J. Philips. Different species alternating
• ALTERATIVE
  A medicine or treatment which gradually induces a change, and restores healthy functions without sensible evacuations.
• ALTERCATIVE
  Characterized by wrangling; scolding. Fielding.
• SUBALTERNANT
  A universal proposition. See Subaltern, 2. Whately.
• FALTER
  To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley. Halliwell.
• MISALTER
  To alter wrongly; esp., to alter for the worse. Bp. Hall.
• SUBALTERNATE
  1. Succeeding by turns; successive. 2. Subordinate; subaltern; inferior. All their subalternate and several kinds. Evelyn.
• SESQUIALTEROUS
  Sesquialteral.
• HALTER
  One who halts or limps
• SUBALTERN
  Asserting only a part of what is asserted in a related proposition. Subaltern genus. See under Genus. (more info) 1. Ranked or ranged below; subordinate; inferior; specifically , ranking as a junior officer; being below the rank of captain; as,
• SALTERN
  A building or place where salt is made by boiling or by evaporation; salt works.
• SUBALTERNATION
  The state of being subalternate; succession of turns; subordination.
• HALTERES
  Balancers; the rudimentary hind wings of Diptera.
• DRYSALTER
  A dealer in salted or dried meats, pickles, sauces, etc., and in the materials used in pickling, salting, and preserving various kinds of food Hence drysalters usually sell a number of saline substances and miscellaneous drugs. Brande & C.
• SESQUIALTER; SESQUIALTERA
  A stop on the organ, containing several ranks of pipes which reënforce some of the high harmonics of the ground tone, and make the sound more brilliant.