Word Meanings - STICKIT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Stuck; spoiled in making. Stickit minister, a candidate for the clerical office who fails, disqualified by incompetency or immorality.
Related words: (words related to STICKIT)
- MAKE AND BREAK
Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker. - CLERICALISM
An excessive devotion to the interests of the sacerdotal order; undue influence of the clergy; sacerdotalism. - MAKING-IRON
A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in. - OFFICEHOLDER
An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman. - CANDIDATESHIP
Candidacy. - MINISTERY
See MILTON - CLERICAL
1. Of or pertaining to the clergy; suitable for the clergy. "A clerical education." Burke. 2. Of or relating to a clerk or copyist, or to writing. "Clerical work." E. Everett. A clerical error, an error made in copying or writing. - OFFICE WIRE
Copper wire with a strong but light insulation, used in wiring houses, etc. - SPOIL
1. To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession. "Ye shall spoil the Egyptians." Ex. iii. 22. My sons their old, unhappy sire despise, Spoiled of - STUCK
imp. & p. p. of Stick. - SPOILER
1. One who spoils; a plunderer; a pillager; a robber; a despoiler. 2. One who corrupts, mars, or renders useless. - MAKE
A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife. For in this world no woman is Worthy to be my make. Chaucer. - MAKED
Made. Chaucer. - SPOILSMAN
One who serves a cause or a party for a share of the spoils; in United States politics, one who makes or recognizes a demand for public office on the ground of partisan service; also, one who sanctions such a policy in appointments to the public - SPOILABLE
Capable of being spoiled. - MAKE-UP
The way in which the parts of anything are put together; often, the way in which an actor is dressed, painted, etc., in personating a character. The unthinking masses are necessarily teleological in their mental make-up. L. F. Ward. - STUCKLE
A number of sheaves set together in the field; a stook. - MAKESHIFT
That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot. - MINISTERIALLY
In a ministerial manner; in the character or capacity of a minister. - IMMORALITY
1. The state or quality of being immoral; vice. The root of all immorality. Sir W. Temple. 2. An immoral act or practice. Luxury and sloth and then a great drove of heresies and immoralities broke loose among them. Milton. - MANTUAMAKER
One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker. - POST OFFICE
See POST - BOOTMAKER
One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n. - BESTUCK
imp. & p. p. Bestick. - BRICKMAKER
One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n. - BOOKING OFFICE
1. An office where passengers, baggage, etc., are registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship. 2. An office where passage tickets are sold. - CROWN OFFICE
The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases. Burrill. - SAILMAKER
One whose occupation is to make or repair sails. -- Sail"mak`ing, n. - WIDOW-MAKER
One who makes widows by destroying husbands. Shak. - MATCHMAKER
1. One who makes matches for burning or kinding. 2. One who tries to bring about marriages. - HAYMAKING
The operation or work of cutting grass and curing it for hay. - MERRYMAKING
Making or producing mirth; convivial; jolly. - GLASS MAKER; GLASSMAKER
One who makes, or manufactures, glass. -- Glass" mak`ing, or Glass"mak`ing, n. - VLISSMAKI
The diadem indris. See Indris.