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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.

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  • 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.

 

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