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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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

 

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