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Word Meanings - PERPETRATOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who perpetrates; esp., one who commits an offense or crime.

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  • PARENTHETIC; PARENTHETICAL
    1. Of the nature of a parenthesis; pertaining to, or expressed in, or as in, a parenthesis; as, a parenthetical clause; a parenthetic remark. A parenthetical observation of Moses himself. Hales. 2. Using or containing parentheses.
  • CAUSEFUL
    Having a cause.
  • PARENTHESIS
    One of the curved lines which inclose a parenthetic word or phrase. Note: Parenthesis, in technical grammar, is that part of a sentence which is inclosed within the recognized sign; but many phrases and sentences which are punctuated by commas
  • PARENTATION
    Something done or said in honor of the dead; obsequies. Abp. Potter.
  • CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
    Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
  • PARENT
    1. One who begets, or brings forth, offspring; a father or a mother. Children, obey your parents in the Lord. Eph. vi. 1. 2. That which produces; cause; source; author; begetter; as, idleness is the parent of vice. Regular industry is the parent
  • PERPETRATOR
    One who perpetrates; esp., one who commits an offense or crime.
  • COMPOSER
    1. One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music. If the thoughts of such authors have nothing in them, they at least . . . show an honest industry and a good intention in the composer. Addison. His most brilliant and
  • ACTOR
    1. One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer. 2. A theatrical performer; a stageplayer. After a well graced actor leaves the stage. Shak. An advocate or proctor in civil courts or causes. Jacobs. One who institutes a suit; plaintiff or
  • AGENT
    Actingpatient, or sustaining, action. "The body agent." Bacon. (more info) Gr. aka to drive, Skr. aj.
  • ORIGINATOR
    One who originates.
  • INVENTOR
    One who invents or finds out something new; a contriver; especially, one who invents mechanical devices.
  • FABRICATOR
    One who fabricates; one who constructs or makes. The fabricator of the works of Ossian. Mason.
  • INVENTORIAL
    Of or pertaining to an inventory. -- In`ven*to"ri*al*ly, adv. Shak.
  • AUTHORITY
    1. Legal or rightful power; a right to command or to act; power exercised buy a person in virtue of his office or trust; dominion; jurisdiction; authorization; as, the authority of a prince over subjects, and of parents over children; the authority
  • AUTHORESS
    A female author. Glover. Note: The word is not very much used, author being commonly applied to a female writer as well as to a male.
  • COMMITTER
    1. One who commits; one who does or perpetrates. South. 2. A fornicator. T. Decker.
  • CREATOR
    One who creates, produces, or constitutes. Specifically, the Supreme Being. To sin's rebuke and my Creater's praise. Shak. The poets and artists of Greece, who are at the same time its prophets, the creators of its divinities, and the revealers
  • AUTHORSHIP
    1. The quality or state of being an author; function or dignity of an author. 2. Source; origin; origination; as, the authorship of a book or review, or of an act, or state of affairs.
  • PRODUCER
    A furnace for producing combustible gas which is used for fuel. (more info) 1. One who produces, brings forth, or generates. 2. One who grows agricultural products, or manufactures crude materials into articles of use.
  • MANTUAMAKER
    One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker.
  • OLFACTOR
    A smelling organ; a nose.
  • INTERAGENT
    An intermediate agent.
  • BOOTMAKER
    One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n.
  • TRANSPARENT
    transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
  • EXACTOR
    One who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands. Jer. Taylor.
  • CALEFACTOR
    A heater; one who, or that which, makes hot, as a stove, etc.
  • SUBCONTRACTOR
    One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.
  • RETRACTOR
    One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically: In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.
  • BRICKMAKER
    One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n.
  • TRACTORATION
    See PERKINISM
  • REFRACTOR
    Anything that refracts; specifically:
  • REDACTOR
    One who redacts; one who prepares matter for publication; an editor. Carlyle.
  • MALEFACTOR
    1. An evil doer; one who commits a crime; one subject to public prosecution and punishment; a criminal. 2. One who does wrong by injuring another, although not a criminal. H. Brooke. Fuller. Syn. -- Evil doer; criminal; culprit; felon; convict.

 

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