Word Meanings - OUTREASON - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To excel or surpass in reasoning; to reason better than. South.
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- SOUTHWEST
The point of the compass equally from the south and the west; the southwest part or region. - SOUTHSAY
See SOOTHSAY - SOUTHWESTERLY
To ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind. - SOUTHPAW
A pitcher who pitches with the left hand. - SURPASS
To go beyond in anything good or bad; to exceed; to excel. This would surpass Common revenge and interrupt his joy. Milton. Syn. -- To exceed; excel; outdo; outstrip. - SOUTHERNLINESS
Southerliness. - REASONING
1. The act or process of adducing a reason or reasons; manner of presenting one's reasons. 2. That which is offered in argument; proofs or reasons when arranged and developed; course of argument. His reasoning was sufficiently profound. Macaulay. - SOUTHREN
Southern. "I am a Southren man." Chaucer. - SURPASSING
Eminently excellent; exceeding others. "With surpassing glory crowned." Milton. -- Sur*pass"ing*ly, adv. -- Sur*pass"ing*ness, n. - REASONLESS
1. Destitute of reason; as, a reasonless man or mind. Shak. 2. Void of reason; not warranted or supported by reason; unreasonable. This proffer is absurd and reasonless. Shak. - REASONABLY
1. In a reasonable manner. 2. Moderately; tolerably. "Reasonably perfect in the language." Holder. - SOUTHSAYER
See SOOTHSAYER - SOUTH; SOUTHERLY
the old squaw; -- so called in imitation of its cry. Called also southerly, and southerland. See under Old. - SOUTHING
Distance of any heavenly body south of the equator; south declination; south latitude. (more info) 1. Tendency or progress southward; as, the southing of the sun. Emerson. 2. The time at which the moon, or other heavenly body, passes the meridian - BETTERMOST
Best. "The bettermost classes." Brougham. - SOUTHERN
A Southerner. - SOUTHNESS
A tendency in the end of a magnetic needle to point toward the south pole. Faraday. - REASONIST
A rationalist. Such persons are now commonly called "reasonists" and "rationalists," to distinguish them from true reasoners and rational inquirers. Waterland. - SOUTHEASTERN
Of or pertaining to the southeast; southeasterly. - SOUTHWESTWARD; SOUTHWESTWARDLY
Toward the southwest. - UNREASONABLE
Not reasonable; irrational; immoderate; exorbitant. -- Un*rea"son*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*rea"son*a*bly, adv. - ABETTER; ABETTOR
One who abets; an instigator of an offense or an offender. Note: The form abettor is the legal term and also in general use. Syn. -- Abettor, Accessory, Accomplice. These words denote different degrees of complicity in some deed or crime. An abettor - TREASONABLE
Pertaining to treason; consisting of treason; involving the crime of treason, or partaking of its guilt. Most men's heads had been intoxicated with imaginations of plots and treasonable practices. Clarendon. Syn. -- Treacherous; traitorous;