Word Meanings - OPTATIVELY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In an optative manner; with the expression of desire. God blesseth man imperatively, and man blesseth God optatively. Bp. Hall.

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• OPTATIVELY
  In an optative manner; with the expression of desire. God blesseth man imperatively, and man blesseth God optatively. Bp. Hall.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• DESIREFUL
  Filled with desire; eager. The desireful troops. Godfrey .
• EXPRESSIONAL
  Of, or relating to, expression; phraseological; also, vividly representing or suggesting an idea sentiment. Fized. Hall. Ruskin.
• DESIRE
  sidus star, constellation, and hence orig., to turn the eyes from the 1. To long for; to wish for earnestly; to covet. Neither shall any man desire thy land. Ex. xxxiv. 24. Ye desire your child to live. Tennyson. 2. To express a wish
• EXPRESSIONLESS
  Destitute of expression.
• DESIRER
  One who desires, asks, or wishes.
• EXPRESSION
  The representation of any quantity by its appropriate characters or signs. Past expression, Beyond expression, beyond the power of description. "Beyond expression bright." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of expressing; the act of forcing out by
• DESIRELESS
  Free from desire. Donne.
• DESIREFULNESS
  The state of being desireful; eagerness to obtain and possess. The desirefulness of our minds much augmenteth and increaseth our pleasure. Udall.
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• IMPERATIVELY
  In an imperative manner.
• MANNERED
  1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
• MANNER
  manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner
• OPTATIVE
  Expressing desire or wish. Fuller. Optative mood , that mood or form of a verb, as in Greek, Sanskrit, etc., in which a wish or desire is expressed.
• MANNERCHOR
  A German men's chorus or singing club.
• MANNERLY
  Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• ILL-MANNERED
  Impolite; rude.
• MISEXPRESSION
  Wrong expression.
• WELL-MANNERED
  Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.