Word Meanings - SERENELY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. In a serene manner; clearly. Now setting Phoebus shone serenely bright. Pope. 2. With unruffled temper; coolly; calmly. Prior.
Related words: (words related to SERENELY)
- BRIGHT
See I - CLEARLY
In a clear manner. - TEMPER SCREW
1. A screw link, to which is attached the rope of a rope-drilling apparatus, for feeding and slightly turning the drill jar at each stroke. 2. A set screw used for adjusting. - PRIORSHIP
The state or office of prior; priorate. - SETTLEMENT
A disposition of property for the benefit of some person or persons, usually through the medium of trustees, and for the benefit of a wife, children, or other relatives; jointure granted to a wife, or the act of granting it. 2. That which settles, - SETT
See 3 - SETTER
A hunting dog of a special breed originally derived from a cross between the spaniel and the pointer. Modern setters are usually trained to indicate the position of game birds by standing in a fixed position, but originally they indicated it by - TEMPERER
One who, or that which, tempers; specifically, a machine in which lime, cement, stone, etc., are mixed with water. - PRIORITY
1. The quality or state of being prior or antecedent in time, or of preceding something else; as, priority of application. 2. Precedence; superior rank. Shak. Priority of debts, a superior claim to payment, or a claim to payment before others. - TEMPERATURE
Condition with respect to heat or cold, especially as indicated by the sensation produced, or by the thermometer or pyrometer; degree of heat or cold; as, the temperature of the air; high temperature; low temperature; temperature of freezing or - MANNERIST
One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism. - PRIORATE
The dignity, office, or government, of a prior. T. Warton. - TEMPERAMENTAL
Of or pertaining to temperament; constitutional. Sir T. Browne. - BRIGHTSOME
Bright; clear; luminous; brilliant. Marlowe. - SETTEE
A long seat with a back, -- made to accommodate several persons at once. - MANNERISM
Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural - PRIORESS
A lady superior of a priory of nuns, and next in dignity to an abbess. - SETTLE
1. A seat of any kind. "Upon the settle of his majesty" Hampole. 2. A bench; especially, a bench with a high back. 3. A place made lower than the rest; a wide step or platform lower than some other part. And from the bottom upon the ground, even - TEMPERATE
1. Moderate; not excessive; as, temperate heat; a temperate climate. 2. Not marked with passion; not violent; cool; calm; as, temperate language. She is not hot, but temperate as the morn. Shak. That sober freedom out of which there springs Our - TEMPER
To bring to a proper degree of hardness; as, to temper iron or steel. The tempered metals clash, and yield a silver sound. Dryden. 4. To govern; to manage. With which the damned ghosts he governeth, And furies rules, and Tartare tempereth. Spenser. - DISHONESTY
1. Dishonor; dishonorableness; shame. "The hidden things of dishonesty." 2 Cor. iv. 2. 2. Want of honesty, probity, or integrity in principle; want of fairness and straightforwardness; a disposition to defraud, deceive, or betray; faithlessness. - DISTEMPERATE
1. Immoderate. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. Diseased; disordered. Wodroephe. - UPSETTING
Conceited; assuming; as, an upsetting fellow. Jamieson. - TYPESETTING
The act or art of setting type. - ROSETTA WOOD
An east Indian wood of a reddish orange color, handsomely veined with darker marks. It is occasionally used for cabinetwork. Ure. - SUNSET; SUNSETTING
1. The descent of the sun below the horizon; also, the time when the sun sets; evening. Also used figuratively. 'T is the sunset of life gives me mystical lore. Campbell. 2. Hence, the region where the sun sets; the west. Sunset shell , a West - UNMANNERLY
Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv. - SUBPRIOR
The vicegerent of a prior; a claustral officer who assists the prior. - ATTEMPER
1. To reduce, modify, or moderate, by mixture; to temper; to regulate, as temperature. If sweet with bitter . . . were not attempered still. Trench. 2. To soften, mollify, or moderate; to soothe; to temper; as, to attemper rigid justice - FRISETTE; FRIZETTE
a fringe of hair or curls worn about the forehead by women. - DISTEMPERATURE
1. Bad temperature; intemperateness; excess of heat or cold, or of other qualities; as, the distemperature of the air. 2. Disorder; confusion. Shak. 3. Disorder of body; slight illness; distemper. A huge infectious troop Of pale distemperatures - UNTEMPERATE
Intemperate. - EMBRIGHT
To brighten. - ILL-TEMPERED
1. Of bad temper; morose; crabbed; sour; peevish; fretful; quarrelsome. 2. Unhealthy; ill-conditioned. So ill-tempered I am grown, that I am afraid I shall catch cold, while all the world is afraid to melt away. Pepys. - ANISETTE
A French cordial or liqueur flavored with anise seeds. De Colange.