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Word Meanings - PROVERBIALIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To turn into a proverb; to speak in proverbs.

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  • PROVERBIAL
    1. Mentioned or comprised in a proverb; used as a proverb; hence, commonly known; as, a proverbial expression; his meanness was proverbial. In case of excesses, I take the German proverbial cure, by a hair of the same beast, to be the worst. Sir
  • PROVERB
    1. An old and common saying; a phrase which is often repeated; especially, a sentence which briefly and forcibly expresses some practical truth, or the result of experience and observation; a maxim; a saw; an adage. Chaucer. Bacon. 2. A striking
  • PROVERBIALIST
    One who makes much use of proverbs in speech or writing; one who composes, collects, or studies proverbs.
  • SPEAKERSHIP
    The office of speaker; as, the speakership of the House of Representatives.
  • SPEAKER
    1. One who speaks. Specifically: One who utters or pronounces a discourse; usually, one who utters a speech in public; as, the man is a good speaker, or a bad speaker. One who is the mouthpiece of others; especially, one who presides
  • PROVERBIALLY
    In a proverbial manner; by way of proverb; hence, commonly; universally; as, it is proverbially said; the bee is proverbially busy.
  • PROVERBIALIZE
    To turn into a proverb; to speak in proverbs.
  • SPEAK
    1. To utter with the mouth; to pronounce; to utter articulately, as human beings. They sat down with him upn ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him. Job. ii. 13. 2. To utter in a word or words; to say; to tell;
  • SPEAKING
    1. Uttering speech; used for conveying speech; as, man is a speaking animal; a speaking tube. 2. Seeming to be capable of speech; hence, lifelike; as, a speaking likeness. A speaking acquaintance, a slight acquaintance with a person, or one which
  • PROVERBIALISM
    A proverbial phrase.
  • SPEAKABLE
    1. Capable of being spoken; fit to be spoken. Ascham. 2. Able to speak. Milton.
  • BESPEAKER
    One who bespeaks.
  • OUTSPEAK
    1. To exceed in speaking. 2. To speak openly or boldly. T. Campbell. 3. To express more than. Shak.
  • UNBESPEAK
    To unsay; hence, to annul or cancel. Pepys.
  • FORSPEAK
    1. To forbid; to prohibit. Shak. 2. To bewitch. Drayton.
  • FORESPEAKING
    A prediction; also, a preface. Camden. Huloet.
  • UNSPEAK
    To retract, as what has been spoken; to recant; to unsay. Shak.
  • BESPEAK
    besprecan, to speak to, accuse; pref. be- + sprecan to speak. See 1. To speak or arrange for beforehand; to order or engage against a future time; as, to bespeak goods, a right, or a favor. Concluding, naturally, that to gratify his avarice was
  • HOME-SPEAKING
    Direct, forcible, and effective speaking. Milton.
  • FORESPEAK
    See FORSPEAK
  • UNSPEAKABLE
    Not speakable; incapable of being uttered or adequately described; inexpressible; unutterable; ineffable; as, unspeakable grief or rage. -- Un*speak"a*bly, adv. Ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory. 1 Pet. i. 8.
  • RESPEAK
    1. To speak or utter again. 2. To answer; to echo. Shak.
  • MISSPEAK
    To err in speaking.

 

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