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Word Meanings - SOLDIERSHIP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Military qualities or state; martial skill; behavior becoming a soldier. Shak.

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  • STATESMANLIKE
    Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
  • MARTIALIST
    A warrior. Fuller.
  • SOLDIERLY
    Like or becoming a real soldier; brave; martial; heroic; honorable; soldierlike. "Soldierly discipline." Sir P. Sidney.
  • SKILLFUL
    1. Discerning; reasonable; judicious; cunning. "Of skillful judgment." Chaucer. 2. Possessed of, or displaying, skill; knowing and ready; expert; well-versed; able in management; as, a skillful mechanic; -- often followed by at, in, or of; as,
  • STATEHOOD
    The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
  • SOLDIERLIKE
    Like a soldier; soldierly.
  • SKILLED
    Having familiar knowledge united with readiness and dexterity in its application; familiarly acquainted with; expert; skillful; -- often followed by in; as, a person skilled in drawing or geometry.
  • STATE SOCIALISM
    A form of socialism, esp. advocated in Germany, which, while retaining the right of private property and the institution of the family and other features of the present form of the state, would intervene by various measures intended to
  • SKILLIGALEE
    A kind of thin, weak broth or oatmeal porridge, served out to prisoners and paupers in England; also, a drink made of oatmeal, sugar, and water, sometimes used in the English navy or army.
  • 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
  • MARTIAL
    Pertaining to, or containing, iron; chalybeate; as, martial preparations. Martial flowers , a reddish crystalline salt of iron; the ammonio-chloride of iron. -- Martial law, the law administered by the military power of a government when it
  • STATECRAFT
    The art of conducting state affairs; state management; statesmanship.
  • SOLDIER
    1. To serve as a soldier. 2. To make a pretense of doing something, or of performing any task. Note: In this sense the vulgar pronounciation is jocosely preserved. It needs an opera glass to discover whether the leaders are pulling,
  • STATESWOMAN
    A woman concerned in public affairs. A rare stateswoman; I admire her bearing. B. Jonson.
  • SOLDIERING
    1. The act of serving as a soldier; the state of being a soldier; the occupation of a soldier. 2. The act of feigning to work. See the Note under Soldier, v. i., 2.
  • STATESMANLY
    Becoming a statesman.
  • STATESMAN
    1. A man versed in public affairs and in the principles and art of government; especially, one eminent for political abilities. The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more, the stronger light
  • MARTIALLY
    In a martial manner.
  • STATEDLY
    At stated times; regularly.
  • BEHAVIOR
    Manner of behaving, whether good or bad; mode of conducting one's self; conduct; deportment; carriage; -- used also of inanimate objects; as, the behavior of a ship in a storm; the behavior of the magnetic needle. A gentleman that is very singular
  • CREBRICOSTATE
    Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
  • 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.
  • SAGEBRUSH STATE
    Nevada; -- a nickname.
  • OLD LINE STATE
    Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
  • ENSTATE
    See INSTATE
  • KATASTATE
    A substance formed by a katabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See Katabolic.
  • BAYOU STATE
    Mississippi; -- a nickname, from its numerous bayous.
  • REESTATE
    To reëstablish. Walis.
  • BLACKWATER STATE
    Nebraska; -- a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil.
  • ARISTATE
    Having a pointed, beardlike process, as the glumes of wheat; awned. Gray.
  • BICOSTATE
    Having two principal ribs running longitudinally, as a leaf.
  • TRIPLICOSTATE
    Three-ribbed.
  • DEHONESTATE
    To disparage. (more info) dishonor; de- + honestare to make honorable. Cf. Dishonest, and see
  • DEVASTATE
    To lay waste; to ravage; to desolate. Whole countries . . . were devastated. Macaulay. Syn. -- To waste; ravage; desolate; destroy; demolish; plunder; pillage.

 

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