Word Meanings - VOTARIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A votary. Like a sad votarist in palmer's weed. Milton.

PALMER
One who palms or cheats, as at cards or dice.
PALMERWORM
Any hairy caterpillar which appears in great numbers, devouring herbage, and wandering about like a palmer. The name is applied also to other voracious insects. Joel. i. 4. In America, the larva of any one of several moths, which destroys
MILTONIAN
Miltonic. Lowell.
MILTONIC
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
VOTARY
Consecrated by a vow or promise; consequent on a vow; devoted; promised. Votary resolution is made equipollent to custom. Bacon.
VOTARIST
A votary. Like a sad votarist in palmer's weed. Milton.
HAMILTON PERIOD
A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
DEVOTARY
A votary. J. Gregory.