Word Meanings - STERVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To die, or cause to die; to perish. See Starve. Chaucer. Spenser.

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• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
  Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
• PERISHMENT
  The act of perishing. Udall.
• PERISHABILITY
  Perishableness.
• STARVEDLY
  In the condition of one starved or starving; parsimoniously. Some boasting housekeeper which keepth open doors for one day, . . . and lives starvedly all the year after. Bp. Hall.
• CAUSERIE
  Informal talk or discussion, as about literary matters; light conversation; chat.
• CAUSER
  One who or that which causes.
• CAUSELESS
  1. Self-originating; uncreated. 2. Without just or sufficient reason; groundless. My fears are causeless and ungrounded. Denham.
• PERISHABLE
  Liable to perish; subject to decay, destruction, or death; as, perishable goods; our perishable bodies.
• PERISHABLENESS
  The quality or state of being perishable; liability to decay or destruction. Locke.
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• CAUSE
  A suit or action in court; any legal process by which a party endeavors to obtain his claim, or what he regards as his right; case; ground of action. 5. Any subject of discussion or debate; matter; question; affair in general. What counsel give
• STARVELING
  One who, or that which, pines from lack or food, or nutriment. Old Sir John hangs with me, and thou knowest he is no starveling. Shak.
• PERISHABLY
  In a perishable degree or manner.
• CAUSEWAY; CAUSEY
  A way or road rasid above the natural level of the ground, serving as a dry passage over wet or marshy ground. But that broad causeway will direct your way. Dryden. The other way Satan went down The causey to Hell-gate. Milton. (more
• STARVE
  In hot coals he hath himself raked . . . Thus starved this worthy mighty Hercules. Chaucer. 2. To perish with hunger; to suffer extreme hunger or want; to be very indigent. Sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed. Pope. 3. To perish or die
• PERISH
  To be destroyed; to pass away; to become nothing; to be lost; to die; hence, to wither; to waste away. I perish with hunger! Luke xv. 17. Grow up and perish, as the summer fly. Milton. The thoughts of a soul that perish in thinking. Locke. (more
• CAUSELESSNESS
  The state of being causeless.
• CAUSEUSE
  A kind of sofa for two person. A tête-a-tête.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• UNCAUSED
  Having no antecedent cause; uncreated; self-existent; eternal. A. Baxter.
• EMPERISHED
  Perished; decayed. I deem thy brain emperished be. Spenser.
• VIPERISH
  Somewhat like a viper; viperous.
• COPPERISH
  Containing, or partaking of the nature of, copper; like copper; as, a copperish taste.
• IMPERISHABILITY
  The quality of being imperishable: indstructibility. "The imperishability of the universe." Milman.
• WIT-STARVED
  Barren of wit; destitute of genius. Examiner.
• UNPERISHABLE
  Imperishable.
• BECAUSE
  1. By or for the cause that; on this account that; for the reason that. Milton. 2. In order that; that. And the multitude rebuked them because they should hold their peace. Matt. xx. 31. Because of, by reason of, on account of. Because of these