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Word Meanings - UNDERSTRAPPING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Becoming an understrapper; subservient. Sterne.

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  • BECOME
    happen; akin to D. bekomen, OHG.a piquëman, Goth. biquiman to come 1. To pass from one state to another; to enter into some state or condition, by a change from another state, or by assuming or receiving new properties or qualities, additional
  • SUBSERVIENTLY
    In a subservient manner.
  • BECOMED
    Proper; decorous. And gave him what becomed love I might. Shak.
  • STERNER
    A director. Dr. R. Clerke.
  • STERNED
    Having a stern of a particular shape; -- used in composition; as, square-sterned.
  • BECOMINGLY
    In a becoming manner.
  • BECOMINGNESS
    The quality of being becoming, appropriate, or fit; congruity; fitness. The becomingness of human nature. Grew.
  • BECOMING
    Appropriate or fit; congruous; suitable; graceful; befitting. A low and becoming tone. Thackeray. Note: Formerly sometimes followed by of. Such discourses as are becoming of them. Dryden. Syn. -- Seemly; comely; decorous; decent; proper.
  • UNDERSTRAPPER
    A petty fellow; an inferior agent; an underling. This was going to the fountain head at once, not applying to the understrappers. Goldsmith.
  • STERNEBRA
    One of the segments of the sternum. -- Ster"ne*bral, a.
  • SUBSERVIENT
    Fitted or disposed to subserve; useful in an inferior capacity; serving to promote some end; subordinate; hence, servile, truckling. Scarce ever reading anything which he did not make subservient in one kind or other. Bp. Fell. These ranks
  • UNBECOMING
    Not becoming; unsuitable; unfit; indecorous; improper. My grief lets unbecoming speeches fall. Dryden. -- Un`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`be*com"ing*ness, n.
  • PINK-STERNED
    Having a very narrow stern; -- said of a vessel.
  • UNBECOME
    To misbecome. Bp. Sherlock.
  • MISBECOMING
    Unbecoming. Milton. -- Mis`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Mis`be*com"ing*ness, n. Boyle.
  • WESTERNER
    A native or inhabitant of the west.
  • MISBECOME
    Not to become; to suit ill; not to befit or be adapted to. Macaulay. Thy father will not act what misbecomes him. Addison.
  • DISBECOME
    To misbecome. Massinger.

 

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