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Word Meanings - RECALCITRATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To kick against; to show repugnance to; to rebuff. The more heartily did one disdain his disdain, and recalcitrate his tricks. De Quincey.

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  • ADMONISHER
    One who admonishes.
  • REPELLENCE; REPELLENCY
    The principle of repulsion; the quality or capacity of repelling; repulsion.
  • OBJECTIVENESS
    Objectivity. Is there such a motion or objectiveness of external bodies, which produceth light Sir M. Hale
  • REBELLOW
    To bellow again; to repeat or echo a bellow. The cave rebellowed, and the temple shook. Dryden.
  • OBJECTIST
    One who adheres to, or is skilled in, the objective philosophy. Ed. Rev.
  • STRUGGLER
    One who struggles.
  • OBJECT
    before, to oppose; ob + jacere to throw: cf. objecter. See 1. To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose. Of less account some knight thereto object, Whose loss so great and harmful can not prove. Fairfax. Some strong
  • OBJECTIVATE
    To objectify.
  • PROTESTATION
    Formerly, a declaration in common-law pleading, by which the party interposes an oblique allegation or denial of some fact, protesting that it does or does not exist, and at the same time avoiding a direct affirmation or denial. (more info) 1.
  • EXPOSTULATE
    To reason earnestly with a person on some impropriety of his conduct, representing the wrong he has done or intends, and urging him to make redress or to desist; to remonstrate; -- followed by with. Men expostulate with erring friends; they bring
  • RESENTIMENT
    Resentment.
  • PROTESTINGLY
    By way of protesting.
  • OBJECTLESS
    Having no object; purposeless.
  • REPELLENT
    Driving back; able or tending to repel.
  • REBELLION
    Among the Romans rebellion was originally a revolt or open resistance to their government by nations that had been subdued in war. It was a 1. The act of rebelling; open and avowed renunciation of the authority of the government to which one owes
  • PROTESTER
    One who protests a bill of exchange, or note. (more info) 1. One who protests; one who utters a solemn declaration. Shak.
  • REPEL
    1. To drive back; to force to return; to check the advance of; to repulse as, to repel an enemy or an assailant. Hippomedon repelled the hostile tide. Pope. They repelled each other strongly, and yet attracted each other strongly. Macaulay. 2.
  • REVOLT
    Etym: 1. To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence. But this got by casting pearl to hogs, That bawl for freedom in their senseless mood, And still revolt when trith would set them free.
  • RESENTIVE
    Resentful. Thomson.
  • OBJECTIVITY
    The state, quality, or relation of being objective; character of the object or of the objective. The calm, the cheerfulness, the disinterested objectivity have disappeared . M. Arnold.
  • UNRESISTANCE
    Nonresistance; passive submission; irresistance. Bp. Hall.
  • PRESENT
    one, in sight or at hand, p. p. of praeesse to be before; prae before 1. Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent. These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. John xiv. 25.
  • PRESENTIVE
    Bringing a conception or notion directly before the mind; presenting an object to the memory of imagination; -- distinguished from symbolic. How greatly the word "will" is felt to have lost presentive power in the last three centuries. Earle. --
  • NONPRESENTATION
    Neglect or failure to present; state of not being presented.
  • REPRESENTABLE
    Capable of being represented.
  • PRESENTANEOUS
    Ready; quick; immediate in effect; as, presentaneous poison. Harvey.
  • SUPRAPROTEST
    An acceptance of a bill by a third person after protest for nonacceptance by the drawee. Burrill.
  • TOTIPRESENT
    Omnipresence. A. Tucker.
  • OMNIPRESENTIAL
    Implying universal presence. South.
  • SELF-REPELLING
    Made up of parts, as molecules or atoms, which mutually repel each other; as, gases are self-repelling.
  • CEREBELLAR; CEREBELLOUS
    Pertaining to the cerebellum.
  • REPRESENTANT
    Appearing or acting for another; representing.
  • PRESENTLY
    1. At present; at this time; now. The towns and forts you presently have. Sir P. Sidney. 2. At once; without delay; forthwith; also, less definitely, soon; shortly; before long; after a little while; by and by. Shak. And presently the fig tree

 

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