Word Meanings - SELF-IMPOSTURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Imposture practiced on one's self; self-deceit. South.

Related words: (words related to SELF-IMPOSTURE)

• SOUTHSAY
  See SOOTHSAY
• SOUTHWESTERLY
  To ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind.
• SOUTHERNLINESS
  Southerliness.
• SOUTHREN
  Southern. "I am a Southren man." Chaucer.
• PRACTICER
  1. One who practices, or puts in practice; one who customarily performs certain acts. South. 2. One who exercises a profession; a practitioner. 3. One who uses art or stratagem. B. Jonson.
• SOUTHSAYER
  See SOOTHSAYER
• DECEITFUL
  Full of, or characterized by, deceit; serving to mislead or insnare; trickish; fraudulent; cheating; insincere. Harboring foul deceitful thoughts. Shak.
• SOUTH; SOUTHERLY
  the old squaw; -- so called in imitation of its cry. Called also southerly, and southerland. See under Old.
• DECEITLESS
  Free from deceit. Bp. Hall.
• PRACTICAL
  1. Of or pertaining to practice or action. 2. Capable of being turned to use or account; useful, in distinction from ideal or theoretical; as, practical chemistry. "Man's practical understanding." South. "For all practical purposes." Macaulay.
• SOUTHING
  Distance of any heavenly body south of the equator; south declination; south latitude. (more info) 1. Tendency or progress southward; as, the southing of the sun. Emerson. 2. The time at which the moon, or other heavenly body, passes the meridian
• PRACTIC
  1. Practical. 2. Artful; deceitful; skillful. "Cunning sleights and practick knavery." Spenser.
• SOUTHNESS
  A tendency in the end of a magnetic needle to point toward the south pole. Faraday.
• PRACTICED
  1. Experienced; expert; skilled; as, a practiced marksman. "A practiced picklock." Ld. Lytton. 2. Used habitually; learned by practice.
• SOUTHWEST
  The point of the compass equally from the south and the west; the southwest part or region.
• PRACTICALLY
  1. In a practical way; not theoretically; really; as, to look at things practically; practically worthless. 2. By means of practice or use; by experience or experiment; as, practically wise or skillful; practically acquainted with a subject. 3.
• SOUTHEASTERN
  Of or pertaining to the southeast; southeasterly.
• SOUTHEAST
  The point of the compass equally distant from the south and the east; the southeast part or region.
• SOUTHWESTWARD; SOUTHWESTWARDLY
  Toward the southwest.
• SOUTHER
  A strong wind, gale, or storm from the south.
• UNPRACTICAL
  Not practical; impractical. "Unpractical questions." H. James. I like him none the less for being unpractical. Lowell.
• SELF-IMPOSTURE
  Imposture practiced on one's self; self-deceit. South.
• EMPIRE STATE OF THE SOUTH
  Georgia; -- a nickname.