Word Meanings - URBANIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To render urban, or urbane; to refine; to polish. Howell.

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• URBANE
  Courteous in manners; polite; refined; elegant.
• HOWELL
  The upper stage of a porcelian furnace.
• POLISHMENT
  The act of polishing, or the state of being polished.
• URBANISTE
  A large and delicious pear or Flemish origin.
• REFINED
  Freed from impurities or alloy; purifed; polished; cultured; delicate; as; refined gold; refined language; refined sentiments. Refined wits who honored poesy with their pens. Peacham. -- Re*fin"ed*ly (r, adv. -- Re*fin"ed*ness, n.
• POLISHED
  Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished manners; polished verse.
• POLISHABLE
  Capable of being polished.
• REFINEMENT
  1. The act of refining, or the state of being refined; as, the refinement or metals; refinement of ideas. The more bodies are of kin to spirit in subtilty and refinement, the more diffusive are they. Norris. From the civil war to this time, I doubt
• URBAN
  1. Of or belonging to a city or town; as, an urban population. 2. Belonging to, or suiting, those living in a city; cultivated; polite; urbane; as, urban manners. Urban servitude. See Predial servitude, under Servitude.
• URBANIZE
  To render urban, or urbane; to refine; to polish. Howell.
• REFINER
  One who, or that which, refines.
• POLISHEDNESS
  The quality of being polished.
• URBANITY
  1. The quality or state of being urbane; civility or courtesy of manners; politeness; refinement. The marquis did the honors of his house with the urbanity of his country. W. Irving. 2. Polite wit; facetiousness. Dryden. Raillery in the sauce
• RENDERABLE
  Capable of being rendered.
• RENDER
  One who rends.
• RENDERER
  1. One who renders. 2. A vessel in which lard or tallow, etc., is rendered.
• RENDERING
  The act of one who renders, or that which is rendered. Specifically: A version; translation; as, the rendering of the Hebrew text. Lowth. In art, the presentation, expression, or interpretation of an idea, theme, or part. The act of laying
• REFINE
  1. To reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities; to free from dross or alloy; to separate from extraneous matter; to purify; to defecate; as, to refine gold or silver; to refine iron; to refine wine or sugar. I will bring
• POLISH
  Of or pertaining to Poland or its inhabitants. -- n.
• POLISHER
  One who, or that which, polishes; also, that which is used in polishing. Addison.
• PREFINE
  To limit beforehand. Knolles.
• REPOLISH
  To polish again.
• MISRENDER
  To render wrongly; to translate or recite wrongly. Boyle.
• DEPOLISHING
  The process of removing the vitreous glaze from porcelain, leaving the dull luster of the surface of ivory porcelian. Knight.
• TURBAN-SHELL
  A sea urchin when deprived of its spines; -- popularly so called from a fancied resemblance to a turban.
• DISTURBANCE
  The hindering or disquieting of a person in the lawful and peaceable enjoyment of his right; the interruption of a right; as, the disturbance of a franchise, of common, of ways, and the like. Blackstone. Syn. -- Tumult; brawl; commotion; turmoil;
• SURRENDER
  To yield; to render or deliver up; to give up; as, a principal surrendered by his bail, a fugitive from justice by a foreign state, or a particular estate by the tenant thereof to him in remainder or reversion. (more info) 1. To yield to the power
• SURRENDEROR
  One who makes a surrender, as of an estate. Bouvier.
• INURBANE
  Uncivil; unpolished; rude. M. Arnold. -- In`ur*bane"ly, adv. -- In`ur*bane"ness, n.
• TURBAN-TOP
  A kind of fungus with an irregularly wrinkled, somewhat globular pileus .