Word Meanings - SINGULARIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who affects singularity. A clownish singularist, or nonconformist to ordinary usage. Borrow.

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• CLOWNISH
  Of or resembling a clown, or characteristic of a clown; ungainly; awkward. "Clownish hands." Spenser. "Clownish mimic." Prior. -- Clown"ish*ly, adv. Syn. -- Coarse; rough; clumsy; awkward; ungainly; rude; uncivil; ill- bred; boorish; rustic;
• ORDINARY
  1. According to established order; methodical; settled; regular. "The ordinary forms of law." Addison. 2. Common; customary; usual. Shak. Method is not less reguisite in ordinary conversation that in writing. Addison. 3. Of common rank, quality,
• NONCONFORMIST
  One who does not conform to an established church; especially, one who does not conform to the established church of England; a dissenter.
• CLOWNISHNESS
  The manners of a clown; coarseness or rudeness of behavior. That plainness which the alamode people call clownishness. Locke.
• USAGE
  1. The act of using; mode of using or treating; treatment; conduct with respect to a person or a thing; as, good usage; ill usage; hard usage. My brother Is prisoner to the bishop here, at whose hands He hath good usage and great liberty. Shak.
• SINGULARITY
  1. The quality or state of being singular; some character or quality of a thing by which it is distinguished from all, or from most, others; peculiarity. Pliny addeth this singularity to that soil, that the second year the very falling down of
• ORDINARYSHIP
  The state of being an ordinary. Fuller.
• USAGER
  One who has the use of anything in trust for another. Daniel.
• BORROW
  To take from the next higher denomination in order to add it to the next lower; -- a term of subtraction when the figure of the subtrahend is larger than the corresponding one of the minuend. 3. To copy or imitate; to adopt; as, to borrow the
• BORROWER
  One who borrows. Neither a borrower nor a lender be. Shak.
• SINGULARIST
  One who affects singularity. A clownish singularist, or nonconformist to ordinary usage. Borrow.
• SUBORDINARY
  One of several heraldic bearings somewhat less common than an ordinary. See Ordinary. Note: Different writers name different bearings as subordinaries, but the bar, bend, sinister, pile, inescutcheon bordure, gyron, and quarter, are always
• HOUSAGE
  A fee for keeping goods in a house. Chambers.
• HEADBOROUGH; HEADBORROW
  A petty constable. (more info) 1. The chief of a frankpledge, tithing, or decennary, consisting of ten families; -- called also borsholder, boroughhead, boroughholder, and sometimes tithingman. See Borsholder. Blackstone.
• DISUSAGE
  Gradual cessation of use or custom; neglect of use; disuse. Hooker.
• SPOUSAGE
  Espousal. Bale.
• ESPOUSAGE
  Espousal. Latimer.
• MISUSAGE
  Bad treatment; abuse. Spenser.
• SAUSAGE
  1. An article of food consisting of meat minced and highly seasoned, and inclosed in a cylindrical case or skin usually made of the prepared intestine of some animal. 2. A saucisson. See Saucisson. Wilhelm.
• UNBORROWED
  Not borrowed; being one's own; native; original.
• UNUSAGE
  Want or lack of usage. Chaucer.
• EXTRAORDINARY
  1. Beyond or out of the common order or method; not usual, customary, regular, or ordinary; as, extraordinary evils; extraordinary remedies. Which dispose To something extraordinary my thoughts. Milton. 2. Exceeding the common degree, measure.