Word Meanings - POESY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The art of composing poems; poetical skill or faculty; as, the heavenly gift of poesy. Shak. 2. Poetry; metrical composition; poems. Music and poesy used to quicken you. Shak. 3. A short conceit or motto engraved on a ring or other thing; a

Additional info about word: POESY

1. The art of composing poems; poetical skill or faculty; as, the heavenly gift of poesy. Shak. 2. Poetry; metrical composition; poems. Music and poesy used to quicken you. Shak. 3. A short conceit or motto engraved on a ring or other thing; a posy. Bacon.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of POESY)

• Inspiration
• Poesy
• frenzy
• impulse
• revelation
• intuition
• afflatus

Related words: (words related to POESY)

• INTUITION
  1. A looking after; a regard to. What, no reflection on a reward! He might have an intuition at it, as the encouragement, though not the cause, of his pains. Fuller. 2. Direct apprehension or cognition; immediate knowledge, as in perception or
• INTUITIONALISM
  The doctrine that the perception or recognition of primary truth is intuitive, or direct and immediate; -- opposed to sensationalism, and experientialism.
• REVELATION
  1. The act of revealing, disclosing, or discovering to others what was before unknown to them. 2. That which is revealed. The act of revealing divine truth. That which is revealed by God to man; esp., the Bible. By revelation he made known unto
• INSPIRATIONIST
  One who holds to inspiration.
• INSPIRATION
  A supernatural divine influence on the prophets, apostles, or sacred writers, by which they were qualified to communicate moral or religious truth with authority; a supernatural influence which qualifies men to receive and communicate divine truth;
• POESY
  1. The art of composing poems; poetical skill or faculty; as, the heavenly gift of poesy. Shak. 2. Poetry; metrical composition; poems. Music and poesy used to quicken you. Shak. 3. A short conceit or motto engraved on a ring or other thing; a
• INTUITIONIST
  See BAIN
• INTUITIONAL
  Pertaining to, or derived from, intuition; characterized by intuition; perceived by intuition; intuitive.
• INTUITIONISM
  See INTUITIONALISM
• INSPIRATIONAL
  Pertaining to inspiration.
• FRENZY
  Any violent agitation of the mind approaching to distraction; violent and temporary derangement of the mental faculties; madness; rage. All else is towering frenzy and distraction. Addison. The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling. Shak. Syn. --
• AFFLATUS
  1. A breath or blast of wind. 2. A divine impartation of knowledge; supernatural impulse; inspiration. A poet writing against his genius will be like a prophet without his afflatus. Spence.
• IMPULSE
  The action of a force during a very small interval of time; the effect of such action; as, the impulse of a sudden blow upon a hard elastic body. 4. A mental force which simply and directly urges to action; hasty inclination; sudden motive;
• INTUITIONALIST
  One who holds the doctrine of intuitionalism.