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Word Meanings - SUBSENSIBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Deeper than the reach of the senses. "That subsensible world." Tyndall.

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  • WORLDLY
    1. Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims; worldly actions. "I thus neglecting worldly ends." Shak. Many years it hath continued, standing by no other worldly mean but that one only hand which erected it. Hooker. 2. Pertaining
  • WORLDLY-MINDED
    Devoted to worldly interests; mindful of the affairs of the present life, and forgetful of those of the future; loving and pursuing this world's goods, to the exclusion of piety and attention to spiritual concerns. -- World"ly*mind`ed*ness, n.
  • WORLD-WIDE
    Extended throughout the world; as, world-wide fame. Tennyson.
  • REACH
    An effort to vomit.
  • REACHABLE
    Being within reach.
  • WORLDLING
    A person whose soul is set upon gaining temporal possessions; one devoted to this world and its enjoyments. A foutre for the world and worldlings base. Shak. If we consider the expectations of futurity, the worldling gives up the argument. Rogers.
  • WORLDLYWISE; WORLDLY-WISE
    Wise in regard to things of this world. Bunyan.
  • REACHER
    1. One who reaches. 2. An exaggeration. Fuller.
  • WORLDLINESS
    The quality of being worldly; a predominant passion for obtaining the good things of this life; covetousness; addictedness to gain and temporal enjoyments; worldly-mindedness.
  • REACHLESS
    Being beyond reach; lofty. Unto a reachless pitch of praises hight. Bp. Hall.
  • WORLD
    worold; akin to OS. werold, D. wereld, OHG. weralt, worolt, werolt, werlt, G. welt, Icel. veröld, Sw. verld, Dan. verden; properly, the age of man, lifetime, humanity; AS. wer a man + a word akin to E. old; cf. AS. yld lifetime, age, ylde men,
  • SUBSENSIBLE
    Deeper than the reach of the senses. "That subsensible world." Tyndall.
  • OUTPREACH
    To surpass in preaching. And for a villain's quick conversion A pillory can outpreach a parson. Trumbull.
  • FOREREACH
    To advance or gain upon; -- said of a vessel that gains upon another when sailing closehauled.
  • HIGH-REACHING
    Reaching high or upward; hence, ambitious; aspiring. Shak.
  • GUNREACH
    The reach or distance to which a gun will shoot; gunshot.
  • INTERWORLD
    A world between other worlds. Holland.
  • OUTREACH
    To reach beyond.
  • UNDERWORLD
    1. The lower of inferior world; the world which is under the heavens; the earth. That overspreads This underworld. Daniel. 2. The mythological place of departed souls; Hades. 3. The portion of the world which is below the horizon; the opposite
  • TREACHEROUS
    Like a traitor; involving treachery; violating allegiance or faith pledged; traitorous to the state or sovereign; perfidious in private life; betraying a trust; faithless. Loyal father of a treacherous son. Shak. The treacherous smile, a mask for
  • PREACH
    cry in public, to proclaim; prae before + dicare to make known, dicere to say; or perhaps from LL. praedictare. See 1. To proclaim or publish tidings; specifically, to proclaim the gospel; to discourse publicly on a religious subject, or from
  • PREACHMENT
    A religious harangue; a sermon; -- used derogatively. Shak.
  • SEA BREACH
    A breaking or overflow of a bank or a dike by the sea. L'Estrange.
  • BREACH
    A hernia; a rupture. 8. A breaking out upon; an assault. The Lord had made a breach upon Uzza. 1. Chron. xiii. 11 Breach of falth, a breaking, or a failure to keep, an expressed or implied promise; a betrayal of confidence or trust. -- Breach of

 

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