Word Meanings - OLD-GENTLEMANLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to an old gentleman, or like one. Byron.

Related words: (words related to OLD-GENTLEMANLY)

• 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
• GENTLEMANHOOD
  The qualities or condition of a gentleman. Thackeray.
• BYRONIC
  Pertaining to, or in the style of, Lord Byron. With despair and Byronic misanthropy. Thackeray
• GENTLEMANLIKE; GENTLEMANLY
  Of, pertaining to, resembling, or becoming, a gentleman; well- behaved; courteous; polite.
• GENTLEMAN
  One who bears arms, but has no title. 4. The servant of a man of rank. The count's gentleman, one Cesario. Shak. 5. A man, irrespective of condition; -- used esp. in the plural (= citizens; people), in addressing men in popular assemblies, etc.
• GENTLEMANLINESS
  The state of being gentlemanly; gentlemanly conduct or manners.
• GENTLEMANSHIP
  The carriage or quality of a gentleman.
• OLD-GENTLEMANLY
  Pertaining to an old gentleman, or like one. Byron.
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach