Word Meanings - REPERTITIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Found; gained by finding.
Related words: (words related to REPERTITIOUS)
- GAINPAIN
Bread-gainer; -- a term applied in the Middle Ages to the sword of a hired soldier. - GAINSOME
1. Gainful. 2. Prepossessing; well-favored. Massinger. - FINDER
One who, or that which, finds; specifically , a small telescope of low power and large field of view, attached to a larger telescope, for the purpose of finding an object more readily. - FOUNDATION
The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course , under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry. 4. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, - FOUNDER
One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows. - GAINSAY
To contradict; to deny; to controvert; to dispute; to forbid. I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist. Luke xxi. 15. The just gods gainsay That any drop thou borrow'dst from thy mother, - GAINLY
Handily; readily; dexterously; advantageously. Dr. H. More. - FOUND
imp. & p. p. of Find. - FOUNDATIONER
One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school. - GAINSAYER
One who gainsays, contradicts, or denies. "To convince the gainsayers." Tit. i. 9. - GAINAGE
The horses, oxen, plows, wains or wagons and implements for carrying on tillage. The profit made by tillage; also, the land itself. Bouvier. - FOUNDEROUS
Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road. Burke. - FOUNDRESS
A female founder; a woman who founds or establishes, or who endows with a fund. - FOUNDERY
See FOUNDRY - GAINFUL
Profitable; advantageous; lucrative. "A gainful speculation." Macaulay. -- Gain"ful*ly, adv. -- Gain"ful*ness, n. - FOUNDLING
A deserted or exposed infant; a child found without a parent or owner. Foundling hospital, a hospital for foundlings. - GAINSBOROUGH HAT
A woman's broad-brimmed hat of a form thought to resemble those shown in portraits by Thomas Gainsborough, the English artist (1727- - FINDFAULTING
Apt to censure or cavil; faultfinding; captious. Whitlock. - GAINABLE
Capable of being obtained or reached. Sherwood. - FINDFAULT
A censurer or caviler. - CONFOUNDED
1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott. - THEREAGAIN
In opposition; against one's course. If that him list to stand thereagain. Chaucer. - AGAINSTAND
To withstand. - BARGAINER
One who makes a bargain; -- sometimes in the sense of bargainor. - AGAINSAY
To gainsay. Wyclif. - AGAIN
again; on + geán, akin to Ger. gegewn against, Icel. gegn. Cf. 1. In return, back; as, bring us word again. 2. Another time; once more; anew. If a man die, shall he live again Job xiv. 14. 3. Once repeated; -- of quantity; as, as large again, - PROFOUNDNESS
The quality or state of being profound; profundity; depth. Hooker.