Word Meanings - STARMONGER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A fortune teller; an astrologer; -- used in contempt. B. Jonson.

Related words: (words related to STARMONGER)

• TELLER
  1. One who tells, relates, or communicates; an informer, narrator, or describer. 2. One of four officers of the English Exchequer, formerly appointed to receive moneys due to the king and to pay moneys payable by the king. Cowell. 3. An officer
• CONTEMPTIBLY
  In a contemptible manner.
• CONTEMPTUOUSLY
  In a contemptuous manner; with scorn or disdain; despitefully. The apostles and most eminent Christians were poor, and used contemptuously. Jer. Taylor.
• CONTEMPTUOUS
  Manifecting or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; haughty; insolent; disdainful. A proud, contemptious behavior. Hammond. Savage invectiveand contemptuous sarcasm. Macaulay. Rome . . . entertained the most contemptuous opinion of the Jews.
• FORTUNELESS
  Luckless; also, destitute of a fortune or portion. Spenser.
• CONTEMPT
  Disobedience of the rules, orders, or process of a court of justice, or of rules or orders of a legislative body; disorderly, contemptuous, or insolent language or behavior in presence of a court, tending to disturb its proceedings, or impair the
• CONTEMPTIBLENESS
  The state or quality of being contemptible, or of being despised.
• FORTUNE
  1. To make fortunate; to give either good or bad fortune to. Chaucer. 2. To provide with a fortune. Richardson. 3. To presage; to tell the fortune of. Dryden.
• ASTROLOGER
  1. One who studies the stars; an astronomer. 2. One who practices astrology; one who professes to foretell events by the aspects and situation of the stars.
• CONTEMPTIBLE
  1. Worthy of contempt; deserving of scorn or disdain; mean; vile; despicable. Milton. The arguments of tyranny are ascontemptible as its force is dreadful. Burke. 2. Despised; scorned; neglected; abject. Locke. 3. Insolent; scornful; contemptuous.
• CONTEMPTUOUSNESS
  Disposition to or manifestion of contempt; insolence; haughtiness.
• CONTEMPTIBILITY
  The quality of being contemptible; contemptibleness. Speed.
• TELLERSHIP
  The office or employment of a teller.
• MISFORTUNED
  Unfortunate.
• WHEEL OF FORTUNE
  A gambling or lottery device consisting of a wheel which is spun horizontally, articles or sums to which certain marks on its circumference point when it stops being distributed according to varying rules.
• STELLERID
  A starfish.
• FORETELLER
  One who predicts. Boyle.
• STORY-TELLER
  1. One who tells stories; a narrator of anecdotes,incidents, or fictitious tales; as, an amusing story-teller. 2. An historian; -- in contempt. Swift. 3. A euphemism or child's word for "a liar."
• BEFORTUNE
  To befall. I wish all good befortune you. Shak.
• STELLERIDA
  An extensive group of echinoderms, comprising the starfishes and ophiurans.
• TALETELLER
  One who tells tales or stories, especially in a mischievous or officious manner; a talebearer; a telltale; a tattler.
• MISFORTUNE
  Bad fortune or luck; calamity; an evil accident; disaster; mishap; mischance. Consider why the change was wrought, You 'll find his misfortune, not his fault. Addison. Syn. -- Calamity; mishap; mischance; misadventure; ill; harm; disaster.
• STELLER
  The rytina; -- called also stellerine.
• STELLERIDAN; STELLERIDEAN
  A starfish, or brittle star.