Word Meanings - SAINTLIKE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Resembling a saint; suiting a saint; becoming a saint; saintly. Glossed over only with a saintlike show. Dryden.

Related words: (words related to SAINTLIKE)

• SUITABILITY
  The quality or state of being suitable; suitableness.
• GLOSSA
  The tongue, or lingua, of an insect. See Hymenoptera.
• GLOSSIST
  A writer of comments. Milton.
• SUITRESS
  A female supplicant. Rowe.
• GLOSSOLOGY
  1. The definition and explanation of terms; a glossary. 2. The science of language; comparative philology; linguistics; glottology.
• SUITING
  Among tailors, cloth suitable for making entire suits of clothes.
• GLOSSARIAL
  Of or pertaining to glosses or to a glossary; containing a glossary.
• GLOSSOLOGICAL
  Of or pertaining to glossology.
• GLOSSOGRAPHICAL
  Of or pertaining to glossography.
• GLOSSANTHRAX
  A disease of horses and cattle accompanied by carbuncles in the mouth and on the tongue.
• SAINTISM
  The character or quality of saints; also, hypocritical pretense of holiness. Wood.
• BECOME
  happen; akin to D. bekomen, OHG.a piquëman, Goth. biquiman to come 1. To pass from one state to another; to enter into some state or condition, by a change from another state, or by assuming or receiving new properties or qualities, additional
• SAINTOLOGIST
  One who writes the lives of saints.
• SAINTDOM
  The state or character of a saint. Tennyson.
• GLOSSOLOGIST
  One who defines and explains terms; one who is versed in glossology.
• SAINTLINESS
  Quality of being saintly.
• SUIT
  1. To fit; to adapt; to make proper or suitable; as, to suit the action to the word. Shak. 2. To be fitted to; to accord with; to become; to befit. Ill suits his cloth the praise of railing well. Dryden. Raise her notes to that sublime degree Which
• RESEMBLINGLY
  So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
• GLOSSOGRAPHY
  The writing of glossaries, glosses, or comments for illustrating an author.
• GLOSSIC
  A system of phonetic spelling based upon the present values of English letters, but invariably using one symbol to represent one sound only. Ingglish Glosik konvaiA. J. Ellis.
• UNBECOMING
  Not becoming; unsuitable; unfit; indecorous; improper. My grief lets unbecoming speeches fall. Dryden. -- Un`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`be*com"ing*ness, n.
• DEMISUIT
  A suit of light armor covering less than the whole body, as having no protection for the legs below the things, no vizor to the helmet, and the like.
• ALL SAINTS; ALL SAINTS'
  The first day of November, called, also, Allhallows or Hallowmas; a feast day kept in honor of all the saints; also, the season of this festival.
• GYMNOGLOSSA
  A division of gastropods in which the odontophore is without teeth.
• LATTER-DAY SAINT
  A Mormon; -- the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints being the name assumed by the whole body of Mormons.
• UNSUIT
  Not to suit; to be unfit for. Quarles.
• SACCOGLOSSA
  See PELLIBRANCHIATA
• ENTOGLOSSAL
  Within the tongue; -- applied to the glossohyal bone.
• UNBECOME
  To misbecome. Bp. Sherlock.