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Word Meanings - PEDANTISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The office, disposition, or act of a pedant; pedantry.

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  • OFFICEHOLDER
    An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
  • PEDANTY
    An assembly or clique of pedants. Milton.
  • OFFICE WIRE
    Copper wire with a strong but light insulation, used in wiring houses, etc.
  • OFFICER
    Specifically, a commissioned officer, in distinction from a warrant officer. Field officer, General officer, etc. See under Field, General. etc. -- Officer of the day , the officer who, on a given day, has charge for that day of the quard,
  • PEDANTICLY
    Pedantically.
  • PEDANTIC; PEDANTICAL
    Of or pertaining to a pedant; characteristic of, or resembling, a pedant; ostentatious of learning; as, a pedantic writer; a pedantic description; a pedantical affectation. "Figures pedantical." Shak.
  • OFFICE
    The apartments or outhouses in which the domestics discharge the duties attached to the service of a house, as kitchens, pantries, stables, etc. As for the offices, let them stand at distance. Bacon. (more info) 1. That which a person does, either
  • PEDANTRY
    The act, character, or manners of a pedant; vain ostentation of learning. "This pedantry of quotation." Cowley. 'T is a practice that savors much of pedantry. Sir T. Browne.
  • PEDANTISM
    The office, disposition, or act of a pedant; pedantry.
  • PEDANT
    1. A schoolmaster; a pedagogue. Dryden. A pedant that keeps a school i'th' church. Shak. 2. One who puts on an air of learning; one who makes a vain display of learning; a pretender to superior knowledge. Addison. A scholar, yet surely no pedant,
  • DISPOSITIONAL
    Pertaining to disposition.
  • PEDANTIZE
    To play the pedant; to use pedantic expressions.
  • DISPOSITION
    1. The act of disposing, arranging, ordering, regulating, or transferring; application; disposal; as, the disposition of a man's property by will. Who have received the law by the disposition of angels. Acts vii. 53. The disposition of the work,
  • DISPOSITIONED
    Having a disposition; -- used in compounds; as, well- dispositioned.
  • PEDANTOCRACY
    The sway of pedants. J. S. Mill.
  • PEDANTICALLY
    In a pedantic manner.
  • POST OFFICE
    See POST
  • BOOKING OFFICE
    1. An office where passengers, baggage, etc., are registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship. 2. An office where passage tickets are sold.
  • CROWN OFFICE
    The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases. Burrill.
  • INDISPOSITION
    1. The state of being indisposed; disinclination; as, the indisposition of two substances to combine. A general indisposition towards believing. Atterbury. 2. A slight disorder or illness. Rather as an indisposition in health than as
  • PREDISPOSITION
    1. The act of predisposing, or the state of being predisposed; previous inclination, tendency, or propensity; predilection; -- applied to the mind; as, a predisposition to anger. 2. Previous fitness or adaptation to any change, impression,
  • SUBOFFICER
    An under or subordinate officer.
  • UNDEROFFICER
    A subordinate officer.
  • OVEROFFICE
    To domineer over by virtue of office. Shak.

 

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