Word Meanings - PRISONER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. One who is confined in a prison. Piers Plowman. 2. A person under arrest, or in custody, whether in prison or not; a person held in involuntary restraint; a captive; as, a prisoner at the bar of a court. Bouvier. Prisoner of Hope thou art, --
Additional info about word: PRISONER
1. One who is confined in a prison. Piers Plowman. 2. A person under arrest, or in custody, whether in prison or not; a person held in involuntary restraint; a captive; as, a prisoner at the bar of a court. Bouvier. Prisoner of Hope thou art, -- look up and sing. Keble. Prisoner's base. See Base, n., 24.
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- ACCUSATIVELY
1. In an accusative manner. 2. In relation to the accusative case in grammar. - ACCUSTOMARILY
Customarily. - ACCUSTOMEDNESS
Habituation. Accustomedness to sin hardens the heart. Bp. Pearce. - ACCUSE
Accusation. Shak. - BONDSMAN
A surety; one who is bound, or who gives security, for another. (more info) 1. A slave; a villain; a serf; a bondman. Carnal, greedy people, without such a precept, would have no mercy upon their poor bondsmen. Derham. - SLAVEOCRACY
See SLAVOCRACY - SLAVEHOLDING
Holding persons in slavery. - VASSALESS
A female vassal. Spenser. - ACCUSTOMABLE
Habitual; customary; wonted. "Accustomable goodness." Latimer. - ACCUSANT
An accuser. Bp. Hall. - ACCUSATIVAL
Pertaining to the accusative case. - ACCUSER
One who accuses; one who brings a charge of crime or fault. - VASSALAGE
1. The state of being a vassal, or feudatory. 2. Political servitude; dependence; subjection; slavery; as, the Greeks were held in vassalage by the Turks. 3. A territory held in vassalage. "The Countship of Foix, with six territorial vassalages." - VASSAL
Resembling a vassal; slavish; servile. The sun and every vassal star. Keble. - ACCUSINGLY
In an accusing manner. - ACCUSATION
1. The act of accusing or charging with a crime or with a lighter offense. We come not by the way of accusation To taint that honor every good tongue blesses. Shak. 2. That of which one is accused; the charge of an offense or crime, or - ACCUSATIVE
Applied to the case (as the fourth case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses the immediate object on which the action or influence of a transitive verb terminates, or the immediate object of motion or tendency to, expressed by a preposition. - DEFENDANT
1. Serving, or suitable, for defense; defensive. With men of courage and with means defendant. Shak. 2. Making defense. - SLAVERY
1. The condition of a slave; the state of entire subjection of one person to the will of another. Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, slavery, said I, still thou art a bitter draught! Sterne. I wish, from my soul, that the legislature of this - ACCUSEMENT
Accusation. Chaucer. - REACCUSE
To accuse again. Cheyne. - ENSLAVEMENT
The act of reducing to slavery; state of being enslaved; bondage; servitude. A fresh enslavement to their enemies. South. - DISACCUSTOM
To destroy the force of habit in; to wean from a custom. Johnson. - ENSLAVEDNESS
State of being enslaved. - REENSLAVE
To enslave again. - PREACCUSATION
Previous accusation. - ENVASSAL
To make a vassal of. - SELF-ACCUSED
Accused by one's self or by one's conscience. "Die self- accused." Cowper.