Word Meanings - USURPATORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Marked by usurpation; usurping.
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- MARKETABLENESS
Quality of being marketable. - MARKETER
One who attends a market to buy or sell; one who carries goods to market. - MARKETSTEAD
A market place. Drayton. - USURPANT
Usurping; encroaching. Gauden. - MARK
A license of reprisals. See Marque. - MARKSMAN
One who makes his mark, instead of writing his name, in signing documents. Burrill. (more info) 1. One skillful to hit a mark with a missile; one who shoots well. - USURPATURE
Usurpation. "Beneath man's usurpature." R. Browning. - MARKABLE
Remarkable. Sandys. - MARKIS
A marquis. Chaucer. - USURPATORY
Marked by usurpation; usurping. - MARKER
One who or that which marks. Specifically: One who keeps account of a game played, as of billiards. A counter used in card playing and other games. The soldier who forms the pilot of a wheeling column, or marks the direction of an alignment. An - USURPER
One who usurps; especially, one who seizes illegally on sovereign power; as, the usurper of a throne, of power, or of the rights of a patron. A crown will not want pretenders to claim it, not usurpers, if their power serves them, to possess it. - MARKISESSE
A marchioness. Chaucer. - USURPINGLY
In a usurping manner. - MARKEE
See MARQUEE - MARKED
Designated or distinguished by, or as by, a mark; hence; noticeable; conspicuous; as, a marked card; a marked coin; a marked instance. -- Mark"ed*ly, adv. J. S. Mill. A marked man, a man who is noted by a community, or by a part of it, - MARKETABLE
1. Fit to be offered for sale in a market; such as may be justly and lawfully sold; as, dacayemarketable. 2. Current in market; as, marketable value. 3. Wanted by purchasers; salable; as, furs are not marketable in that country. - USURP
To seize, and hold in possession, by force, or without right; as, to usurp a throne; to usurp the prerogatives of the crown; to usurp power; to usurp the right of a patron is to oust or dispossess him. Alack, thou dost usurp authority. Shak. Another - MARKMAN
A marksman. Shak. - MARKET
The privelege granted to a town of having a public market. Note: Market is often used adjectively, or in forming compounds of obvious meaning; as, market basket, market day, market folk, market house, marketman, market place, market price, market - TRADE-MARK
A peculiar distinguishing mark or device affixed by a manufacturer or a merchant to his goods, the exclusive right of using which is recognized by law. - SEAMARK
Any elevated object on land which serves as a guide to mariners; a beacon; a landmark visible from the sea, as a hill, a tree, a steeple, or the like. Shak. - BOOKMARK
Something placed in a book to guide in finding a particular page or passage; also, a label in a book to designate the owner; a bookplate. - COMMARK
The frontier of a country; confines. Shelton. - REMARKER
One who remarks. - FOOTMARK
A footprint; a track or vestige. Coleridge. - SWANMARK
A mark of ownership cut on the bill or swan. Encyc. Brit. - NEWMARKET
A long, closely fitting cloak. - COUNTERMARK
An artificial cavity made in the teeth of horses that have outgrown their natural mark, to disguise their age. (more info) 1. A mark or token added to those already existing, in order to afford security or proof; as, an additional or special mark - POCKMARKED
Marked by smallpox; pitted. - RE-MARK
To mark again, or a second time; to mark anew. - HALL-MARK
The official stamp of the Goldsmiths' Company and other assay offices, in the United Kingdom, on gold and silver articles, attesting their purity. Also used figuratively; -- as, a word or phrase lacks the hall-mark of the best writers.