Word Meanings - SOBERLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a sober manner; temperately; cooly; calmly; gravely; seriously.

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• SOBERIZE
  To sober. Crabbe.
• SOBERLY
  In a sober manner; temperately; cooly; calmly; gravely; seriously.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• 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
• COOLY; COOLIE
  An East Indian porter or carrier; a laborer transported from the East Indies, China, or Japan, for service in some other country.
• CALMLY
  In a calm manner. The gentle stream which calmly flows. Denham.
• SOBER
  sobre, from L. sobrius, probably from a prefix so- expressing 1. Temperate in the use of spirituous liquors; habitually temperate; as, a sober man. That we may hereafter live a godly, righteous, and sober life, to the glory of Thy holy name. Bk.
• SOBERNESS
  The quality or state of being sober.
• SOBER-MINDED
  Having a disposition or temper habitually sober. -- So"ber-mind`ed*ness, n.
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• TEMPERATELY
  In a temperate manner.
• MANNERED
  1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
• MANNER
  manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner
• GRAVELY
  In a grave manner.
• MANNERCHOR
  A German men's chorus or singing club.
• MANNERLY
  Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• CHRYSOBERYL
  A mineral, found in crystals, of a yellow to green or brown color, and consisting of aluminia and glucina. It is very hard, and is often used as a gem.
• ENSOBER
  To make sober. Sad accidents to ensober his spirits. Jer. Taylor.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• ILL-MANNERED
  Impolite; rude.
• WELL-MANNERED
  Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.
• UNTEMPERATELY
  Intemperately.
• INTEMPERATELY
  In an intemperate manner; immoderately; excessively; without restraint. The people . . . who behaved very unwisely and intemperately on that occasion. Burke.
• DISTEMPERATELY
  Unduly.