Word Meanings - VOTIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Given by vow, or in fulfillment of a vow; consecrated by a vow; devoted; as, votive offerings; a votive tablet. "Votive incense." Keble. We reached a votive stone, that bears the name Of Aloys Reding. Wordsworth. Embellishments of flowers and votive

Additional info about word: VOTIVE

Given by vow, or in fulfillment of a vow; consecrated by a vow; devoted; as, votive offerings; a votive tablet. "Votive incense." Keble. We reached a votive stone, that bears the name Of Aloys Reding. Wordsworth. Embellishments of flowers and votive garlands. Motley. Votive medal, a medal struck in grateful commemoration of some auspicious event. -- Votive offering, an offering in fulfillment of a religious vow, as of one's person or property. -- Vo"tive*ly, adv. -- Vo"tive*ness, n.

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• REDELIVER
  1. To deliver or give back; to return. Ay 2. To deliver or liberate a second time or again. 3. To report; to deliver the answer of. "Shall I redeliver you e'en so" Shak.
• STONEBRASH
  A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash.
• REDEMPTIONER
  1. One who redeems himself, as from debt or servitude. 2. Formerly, one who, wishing to emigrate from Europe to America, sold his services for a stipulated time to pay the expenses of his passage.
• REDIMINISH
  To diminish again.
• REDOUBTABLE
  Formidable; dread; terrible to foes; as, a redoubtable hero;
• REDUPLICATION
  The doubling of a stem or syllable , with the effect of changing the time expressed, intensifying the meaning, or making the word more imitative; also, the syllable thus added; as, L. tetuli; poposci. (more info) 1. The act of doubling, or the
• REDELIVERY
  1. Act of delivering back. 2. A second or new delivery or liberation.
• REDUCEMENT
  Reduction. Milton.
• REDHIBITION
  The annulling of a sale, and the return by the buyer of the article sold, on account of some defect.
• STONEROOT
  A North American plant having a very hard root; horse balm. See Horse balm, under Horse.
• VOTIVE
  Given by vow, or in fulfillment of a vow; consecrated by a vow; devoted; as, votive offerings; a votive tablet. "Votive incense." Keble. We reached a votive stone, that bears the name Of Aloys Reding. Wordsworth. Embellishments of flowers and votive
• REDACTION
  The act of redacting; work produced by redacting; a digest.
• RED-TAPIST
  One who is tenacious of a strict adherence to official formalities. Ld. Lytton.
• REDARGUE
  To disprove; to refute; toconfute; to reprove; to convict. How shall I . . . suffer that God should redargue me at doomsday, and the angels reproach my lukewarmness Jer. Taylor. Now this objection to the immediate cognition of external objects has,
• REDISTRICT
  To divide into new districts.
• DEVOTIONALLY
  In a devotional manner; toward devotion.
• REDACTOR
  One who redacts; one who prepares matter for publication; an editor. Carlyle.
• REDBREAST
  The long-eared pondfish. See Pondfish. (more info) The European robin. The American robin. See Robin. The knot, or red-breasted snipe; -- called also robin breast, and robin snipe. See Knot.
• REDEMPTIONIST
  A monk of an order founded in 1197; -- so called because the order was especially devoted to the redemption of Christians held in captivity by the Mohammedans. Called also Trinitarian.
• REDEEM
  Hence, to rescue and deliver from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us. Gal. iii. 13. 5. To make good by performing fully; to fulfill; as, to redeem
• PITCHSTONE
  An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
• OUTPREACH
  To surpass in preaching. And for a villain's quick conversion A pillory can outpreach a parson. Trumbull.
• PHYLACTERED
  Wearing a phylactery.
• UNDERBRED
  Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith.
• GOOD-HUMORED
  Having a cheerful spirit and demeanor; good-tempered. See Good- natured.
• CAPSTONE
  A fossil echinus of the genus Cannulus; -- so called from its supposed resemblance to a cap.
• UDDERED
  Having an udder or udders.
• INDEVOTE
  Not devoted. Bentley. Clarendon.
• CLINKSTONE
  An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite.
• UNRAZORED
  Not shaven. Milton.
• SIREDON
  The larval form of any salamander while it still has external gills; especially, one of those which, like the axolotl (Amblystoma Mexicanum), sometimes lay eggs while in this larval state, but which under more favorable conditions lose their gills
• GRINDSTONE
  A flat, circular stone, revolving on an axle, for grinding or sharpening tools, or shaping or smoothing objects. To hold, pat, or bring one's nose to the grindstone, to oppress one; to keep one in a condition of servitude. They might be ashamed,
• INCREDULOUSLY
  In an incredulous manner; with incredulity.
• CREDIBLY
  In a manner inducing belief; as, I have been credibly informed of the event.
• LEISURED
  Having leisure. "The leisured classes." Gladstone.
• RUBSTONE
  A stone for scouring or rubbing; a whetstone; a rub.
• MOORSTONE
  A species of English granite, used as a building stone.
• PREDEFINE
  To define beforehand.