Word Meanings - PLACENTIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Pleasing; amiable. "A placentious person." Fuller.
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- PERSONNEL
The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel. - PERSONIFICATION
A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying; - AMIABLENESS
The quality of being amiable; amiability. - AMIABLE
friend, fr. amare to love. The meaning has been influenced by F. aimable, L. amabilis lovable, fr. amare to love. Cf. Amicable, 1. Lovable; lovely; pleasing. So amiable a prospect. Sir T. Herbert. 2. Friendly; kindly; sweet; gracious; - PERSONIZE
To personify. Milton has personized them. J. Richardson. - FULLER
One whose occupation is to full cloth. Fuller's earth, a variety of clay, used in scouring and cleansing cloth, to imbibe grease. -- Fuller's herb , the soapwort , formerly used to remove stains from cloth. -- Fuller's thistle or weed - PERSONATE
To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. In fable, hymn, or song so personating Their gods ridiculous. Milton. - PERSONATOR
One who personates. "The personators of these actions." B. Jonson. - PLEASER
One who pleases or gratifies. - PLEASANT-TONGUED
Of pleasing speech. - PLEASANTNESS
The state or quality of being pleasant. - PLEASURIST
A person devoted to worldly pleasure. Sir T. Browne. - PERSONAL
Denoting person; as, a personal pronoun. Personal action , a suit or action by which a man claims a debt or personal duty, or damages in lieu of it; or wherein he claims satisfaction in damages for an injury to his person or property, - PERSONIFY
1. To regard, treat, or represent as a person; to represent as a rational being. The poets take the liberty of personifying inanimate things. Chesterfield. 2. To be the embodiment or personification of; to impersonate; as, he personifies the law. - PERSONIFIER
One who personifies. - PLEASURER
A pleasure seeker. Dickens. - PERSONA
See 8 - PERSONABLE
1. Having a well-formed body, or person; graceful; comely; of good appearance; presentable; as, a personable man or woman. Wise, warlike, personable, courteous, and kind. Spenser. The king, . . . so visited with sickness, was not personable. E. - PLEASURELESS
Devoid of pleasure. G. Eliot. - PERSONALLY
1. In a personal manner; by bodily presence; in person; not by representative or substitute; as, to deliver a letter personally. He, being cited, personally came not. Grafton. 2. With respect to an individual; as regards the person; individually; - UNIPERSONAL
Used in only one person, especially only in the third person, as some verbs; impersonal. (more info) 1. Existing as one, and only one, person; as, a unipersonal God. - OVERPLEASE
To please excessively. - UNIPERSONALIST
One who believes that the Deity is unipersonal. - TRIPERSONALITY
The state of existing as three persons in one Godhead; trinity. - IMPERSONATION; IMPERSONIFICATION
The act of impersonating; personification; investment with personality; representation in a personal form. - DISPLEASANCE
Displeasure; discontent; annoyance. Chaucer. - TRIPERSONAL
Consisting of three persons. Milton. - MONOPERSONAL
Having but one person, or form of existence.