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Word Meanings - STARCHED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Stiffened with starch. 2. Stiff; precise; formal. Swift.

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  • FORMALITY
    The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller. 6. That which is formal; the formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while
  • DEMURE
    good manners); de of + murs, mours, meurs, mors, F. m, fr. L. mores manners, morals ; or more prob. fr. OF. meür, F. mûr mature, ripe in a phrase preceded by de, as de 1. Of sober or serious mien; composed and decorous in bearing; of modest
  • AFFECTATIONIST
    One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall.
  • STIFFENER
    One who, or that which, stiffens anything, as a piece of stiff cloth in a cravat.
  • STARCHER
    One who starches.
  • AFFECTION
    Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. Most wretched man, That to affections
  • RIGID
    1. Firm; stiff; unyielding; not pliant; not flexible. Upright beams innumerable Of rigid spears. Milton. 2. Hence, not lax or indulgent; severe; inflexible; strict; as, a rigid father or master; rigid discipline; rigid criticism; a rigid sentence.
  • AFFECTIBILITY
    The quality or state of being affectible.
  • RIGIDLY
    In a rigid manner; stiffly.
  • STIFFENING
    1. Act or process of making stiff. 2. Something used to make anything stiff. Stiffening order , a permission granted by the customs department to take cargo or ballast on board before the old cargo is out, in order to steady the ship.
  • AFFECTIVELY
    In an affective manner; impressively; emotionally.
  • CONSTRAINTIVE
    Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew.
  • CEREMONIOUSLY
    In a ceremonious way.
  • INFLEXIBLE
    1. Not capable of being bent; stiff; rigid; firm; unyielding. 2. Firm in will or purpose; not to be turned, changed, or altered; resolute; determined; unyieding; inexorable; stubborn. "Inflexibleas steel." Miltom. Amanof upright and inflexibletemper
  • AFFECTIONED
    1. Disposed. Be kindly affectioned one to another. Rom. xii. 10. 2. Affected; conceited. Shak.
  • AFFECTER
    One who affects, assumes, pretends, or strives after. "Affecters of wit." Abp. Secker.
  • STIFF
    Bearing a press of canvas without careening much; as, a stiff vessel; -- opposed to crank. Totten. 8. Very large, strong, or costly; powerful; as, a stiff charge; a stiff price. Stiff neck, a condition of the neck such that the head can not be
  • FORMALIZE
    1. To give form, or a certain form, to; to model. 2. To render formal.
  • AFFECTIVE
    1. Tending to affect; affecting. Burnet. 2. Pertaining to or exciting emotion; affectional; emotional. Rogers.
  • FORMAL
    1. Belonging to the form, shape, frame, external appearance, or organization of a thing. 2. Belonging to the constitution of a thing, as distinguished from the matter composing it; having the power of making a thing what it is; constituent;
  • REFORMALIZE
    To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
  • OVERAFFECT
    To affect or care for unduly. Milton.
  • MISAFFECT
    To dislike.
  • INAFFECTED
    Unaffected. -- In`af*fect"ed*ly, adv.
  • UNIFORMAL
    Uniform. Herrick.
  • RESTIFF
    Restive.
  • RESTIFFNESS
    Restiveness.
  • ARISTARCH
    A severe critic. Knowles.

 

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