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Word Meanings - PERISHABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Liable to perish; subject to decay, destruction, or death; as, perishable goods; our perishable bodies.

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  • DEATHLIKE
    1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak.
  • SUBJECTION
    1. The act of subjecting, or of bringing under the dominion of another; the act of subduing. The conquest of the kingdom, and subjection of the rebels. Sir M. Hale. 2. The state of being subject, or under the power, control, and government
  • SUBJECTIST
    One skilled in subjective philosophy; a subjectivist.
  • SUBJECTNESS
    Quality of being subject.
  • DEATHLINESS
    The quality of being deathly; deadliness. Southey.
  • PERISHMENT
    The act of perishing. Udall.
  • PERISHABILITY
    Perishableness.
  • DEATHWATCH
    A small beetle . By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death. A small wingless insect, of the family Psocidæ,
  • SUBJECTLESS
    Having no subject.
  • DECAYER
    A causer of decay.
  • SUBJECTIVE
    Modified by, or making prominent, the individuality of a writer or an artist; as, a subjective drama or painting; a subjective writer. Syn. -- See Objective. Subjective sensation , one of the sensations occurring when stimuli due to internal causes
  • DEATHWARD
    Toward death.
  • GOODSHIP
    Favor; grace. Gower.
  • SUBJECT-MATTER
    The matter or thought presented for consideration in some statement or discussion; that which is made the object of thought or study. As to the subject-matter, words are always to be understood as having a regard thereto. Blackstone. As science
  • DESTRUCTIONIST
    One who believes in the final destruction or complete annihilation of the wicked; -- called also annihilationist. Shipley. (more info) 1. One who delights in destroying that which is valuable; one whose principles and influence tend to destroy
  • GOODS
    See 3
  • DECAY
    To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste away; to decline; to fail; to become weak, corrupt, or disintegrated; to rot; to perish; as, a tree decays; fortunes decay;
  • DEATH
    Loss of spiritual life. To be death. Rom. viii. 6. 9. Anything so dreadful as to be like death. It was death to them to think of entertaining such doctrines. Atterbury. And urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death. Judg. xvi. 16. Note: Death
  • DEATHFULNESS
    Appearance of death. Jer. Taylor.
  • DEATH'S-HERB
    The deadly nightshade . Dr. Prior.
  • DEATHLY
    Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.
  • UNAPPLIABLE
    Inapplicable. Milton.
  • PLIABLE
    1. Capable of being plied, turned, or bent; easy to be bent; flexible; pliant; supple; limber; yielding; as, willow is a pliable plant. 2. Flexible in disposition; readily yielding to influence, arguments, persuasion, or discipline; easy to be
  • INSUBJECTION
    Want of subjection or obedience; a state of disobedience, as to government.
  • COMPLIABLE
    Capable of bending or yielding; apt to yield; compliant. Another compliable mind. Milton. The Jews . . . had made their religion compliable, and accemodated to their passions. Jortin.
  • DRY GOODS
    A commercial name for textile fabrics, cottons, woolens, linen, silks, laces, etc., -- in distinction from groceries.
  • CONCILIABLE
    A small or private assembly, especially of an ecclesiastical nature. Bacon.
  • PREDECAY
    Premature decay.
  • RESUBJECTION
    A second subjection.

 

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