Word Meanings - REFLECTINGLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

With reflection; also, with censure; reproachfully. Swift.

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• CENSURER
  One who censures. Sha.
• SWIFTNESS
  The quality or state of being swift; speed; quickness; celerity; velocity; rapidity; as, the swiftness of a bird; the swiftness of a stream; swiftness of descent in a falling body; swiftness of thought, etc.
• SWIFTLET
  Any one of numerous species of small East Indian and Asiatic swifts of the genus Collocalia. Some of the species are noted for furnishing the edible bird's nest. See Illust. under Edible.
• SWIFTER
  A rope used to retain the bars of the capstan in their sockets while men are turning it. A rope used to encircle a boat longitudinally, to strengthen and defend her sides. The forward shroud of a lower mast.
• CENSURE
  1. Judgment either favorable or unfavorable; opinion. Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Shak. 2. The act of blaming or finding fault with and condemning as wrong; reprehension; blame. Both the censure and the praise were merited.
• REFLECTION
  The transference of an excitement from one nerve fiber to another by means of the nerve cells, as in reflex action. See Reflex action, under Reflex. Angle of reflection, the angle which anything, as a ray of light, on leaving a reflecting surface,
• SWIFTLY
  In a swift manner; with quick motion or velocity; fleetly. Wyclif.
• SWIFTFOOT
  Nimble; fleet. Mir. for Mag.
• SWIFT
  to swapan to sweep, swipu a whip; cf. swifan to move quickly, to 1. Moving a great distance in a short time; moving with celerity or velocity; fleet; rapid; quick; speedy; prompt. My beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak,
• SUPERREFLECTION
  The reflection of a reflected image or sound. Bacon.
• MISCENSURE
  To misjudge. Daniel. -- n.
• IRREFLECTION
  Want of reflection.
• LICENSURE
  A licensing.