Word Meanings - SPREAD-EAGLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Characterized by a pretentious, boastful, exaggerated style; defiantly or extravagantly bombastic; as, a spread-eagle orator; a spread-eagle speech.

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• SPREADINGLY
  , adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.
• SPEECHLESS
  1. Destitute or deprived of the faculty of speech. 2. Not speaking for a time; dumb; mute; silent. Speechless with wonder, and half dead with fear. Addison. -- Speech"less*ly, adv. -- Speech"less*ness, n.
• EAGLESTONE
  A concretionary nodule of clay ironstone, of the size of a walnut or larger, so called by the ancients, who believed that the eagle transported these stones to her nest to facilitate the laying of her eggs; aëtites.
• STYLET
  A small poniard; a stiletto. An instrument for examining wounds and fistulas, and for passing setons, and the like; a probe, -- called also specillum. A stiff wire, inserted in catheters or other tubular instruments to maintain their shape
• SPEECHIFYING
  The dinner and speechifying . . . at the opening of the annual season for the buckhounds. M. Arnold.
• EAGLEWOOD
  A kind of fragrant wood. See Agallochum.
• BOASTFUL
  Given to, or full of, boasting; inclined to boast; vaunting; vainglorious; self-praising. -- Boast"ful*ly, adv. -- Boast"ful*ness, n.
• EXAGGERATOR
  One who exaggerates; one addicted to exaggeration. L. Horner.
• SPEECHFUL
  Full of speech or words; voluble; loquacious.
• SPEECHIFY
  To make a speech; to harangue.
• SPREAD-EAGLED
  1. To place in a spread-eagle position, especially as a means of punishment. 2. being in a position with the arms and legs extended fully.
• ORATORY
  A place of orisons, or prayer; especially, a chapel or small room set apart for private devotions. An oratory . . . in worship of Dian. Chaucer. Do not omit thy prayers for want of a good oratory, or place to pray in. Jer. Taylor. Fathers of the
• EXAGGERATIVE
  Tending to exaggerate; involving exaggeration. "Exaggerative language." Geddes. "Exaggerative pictures." W. J. Linton. -- Ex*ag"ger*a*tive*ly, adv. Carlyle.
• SPREAD-EAGLE
  Characterized by a pretentious, boastful, exaggerated style; defiantly or extravagantly bombastic; as, a spread-eagle orator; a spread-eagle speech.
• ORATORIO
  A more or less dramatic text or poem, founded on some Scripture nerrative, or great divine event, elaborately set to music, in recitative, arias, grand choruses, etc., to be sung with an orchestral accompaniment, but without action, scenery, or
• EXAGGERATION
  A representation of things beyond natural life, in expression, beauty, power, vigor. (more info) 1. The act of heaping or piling up. "Exaggeration of sand." Sir M. Hale. 2. The act of exaggerating; the act of doing or representing in an excessive
• SPEECHIFICATION
  The act of speechifying.
• EAGLE-EYED
  Sharp-sighted as an eagle. "Inwardly eagle-eyed." Howell.
• EXAGGERATED
  Enlarged beyond bounds or the truth. -- Ex*ag"ger*a`ted*ly, adv.
• EAGLE-SIGHTED
  Farsighted and strong-sighted; sharp-sighted. Shak.
• ARAEOSTYLE
  See INTERCOLUMNIATION
• CYCLOSTYLE
  A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred
• AMELIORATOR
  One who ameliorates.
• SURSTYLE
  To surname.
• IMPLORATORY
  Supplicatory; entreating. Carlyle.
• EDULCORATOR
  A contrivance used to supply small quantities of sweetened liquid, water, etc., to any mixture, or to test tubes, etc.; a dropping bottle.
• AMPHIPROSTYLE
  Doubly prostyle; having columns at each end, but not at the sides. -- n.
• INSTYLE
  To style. Crashaw.
• ENDOSTYLE
  A fold of the endoderm, which projects into the blood cavity of ascidians. See Tunicata.
• MORATORIUM
  A period during which an obligor has a legal right to delay meeting an obligation, esp. such a period granted, as to a bank, by a moratory law.
• BEDSPREAD
  A bedquilt; a counterpane; a coverlet.
• MELIORATOR
  One who meliorates.
• EVAPORATOR
  An apparatus for condensing vegetable juices, or for drying fruit by heat.