Word Meanings - WIZARDRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The character or practices o "He acquired a reputation bordering on wizardry." J. A. Symonds.

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• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• CHARACTER
  1. A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol. It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye. Holder. 2. Style of writing or printing; handwriting;
• ACQUIRABLE
  Capable of being acquired.
• ACQUIRE
  To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits. No virtue is acquired in an instant, but step by step. Barrow. Descent is the title whereby a man, on the death of
• REPUTATION
  The character imputed to a person in the community in which he lives. It is admissible in evidence when he puts his character in issue, or when such reputation is otherwise part of the issue of a case. 3. Specifically: Good reputation; favorable
• CHARACTERISM
  A distinction of character; a characteristic. Bp. Hall.
• ACQUIRY
  Acquirement. Barrow.
• ACQUIRER
  A person who acquires.
• CHARACTERIZE
  1. To make distinct and recognizable by peculiar marks or traits; to make with distinctive features. European, Asiatic, Chinese, African, and Grecian faces are Characterized. Arbuthot. 2. To engrave or imprint. Sir M. Hale. 3. To indicate the
• BORDEREAU
  A note or memorandum, esp. one containing an enumeration of documents.
• ACQUIRABILITY
  The quality of being acquirable; attainableness. Paley.
• BORDER
  bord a border; of German origin; cf. MHG. borte border, trimming, G. borte trimming, ribbon; akin to E. board in sense 8. See Board, n., 1. The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink. Upon the borders
• CHARACTERISTICALLY
  In a characteristic manner; in a way that characterizes.
• ACQUIREMENT
  The act of acquiring, or that which is acquired; attainment. "Rules for the acquirement of a taste." Addison. His acquirements by industry were . . . enriched and enlarged by many excellent endowments of nature. Hayward. Syn. -- Acquisition,
• CHARACTERIZATION
  The act or process of characterizing.
• CHARACTERISTICAL
  Characteristic.
• CHARACTERY
  1. The art or means of characterizing; a system of signs or characters; symbolism; distinctive mark. Fairies use flowers for their charactery. Shak. 2. That which is charactered; the meaning. I will construe to thee All the charactery of my sad
• BORDERER
  One who dwells on a border, or at the extreme part or confines of a country, region, or tract of land; one who dwells near to a place or region. Borderers of the Caspian. Dyer.
• CHARACTERLESS
  Destitute of any distinguishing quality; without character or force.
• WIZARDRY
  The character or practices o "He acquired a reputation bordering on wizardry." J. A. Symonds.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• MISCHARACTERIZE
  To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to. They totally mischaracterize the action. Eton.
• MENDELIAN CHARACTER
  A character which obeys Mendel's law in regard to its hereditary transmission.
• SEA-BORDERING
  Bordering on the sea; situated beside the sea. Drayton.
• DISREPUTATION
  Loss or want of reputation or good name; dishonor; disrepute; disesteem. "A disreputation of piety." Jer. Taylor.
• SUBORDER
  A division of an order; a group of genera of a little lower rank than an order and of greater importance than a tribe or family; as, cichoraceous plants form a suborder of Compositæ.