Word Meanings - ACCUSATORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to, or containing, an accusation; as, an accusatory libel. Grote.

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• CONTAINMENT
  That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
• LIBELLEE
  The party against whom a libel has been filed; -- corresponding to defendant in a common law action. The defendant in an action of libel.
• LIBELANT
  One who libels; one who institutes a suit in an ecclesiastical or admiralty court. Cranch.
• CONTAINANT
  A container.
• GROTESQUE
  1. A whimsical figure, or scene, such as is found in old crypts and grottoes. Dryden. 2. Artificial grotto-work.
• LIBELLULID
  A dragon fly.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• ACCUSATION
  1. The act of accusing or charging with a crime or with a lighter offense. We come not by the way of accusation To taint that honor every good tongue blesses. Shak. 2. That of which one is accused; the charge of an offense or crime, or
• CONTAINABLE
  Capable of being contained or comprised. Boyle.
• LIBEL
  A malicious publication expressed either in print or in writing, or by pictures, effigies, or other signs, tending to expose another to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule. Such publication is indictable at common law. Note: The term, in a more
• GROTESQUENESS
  Quality of being grotesque.
• ACCUSATORY
  Pertaining to, or containing, an accusation; as, an accusatory libel. Grote.
• LIBELIST
  A libeler.
• CONTAINER
  One who, or that which, contains.
• LIBELER
  One who libels. " Libelers of others." Buckkminster.
• CONTAIN
  1. To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold. Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can not contain thee; how much less this house! 2 Chron. vi. 18. When that this body did contain a spirit. Shak. What thy stores
• GROTESQUELY
  In a grotesque manner.
• LIBELLULOID
  Like or pertaining to the dragon fi
• LIBELOUS
  Containing or involving a libel; defamatory; containing that which exposes some person to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule; as, a libelous pamphlet. -- Li"bel*ous*ly, adv.
• GROTESQUERY
  Grotesque action, speech, or manners; grotesque doings. "The sustained grotesquery of Feather-top." K. L. Bates. Vileness, on the other hand, becomes grotesquerie, wonderfully converted into a subject of laughter. George Gissing.
• GROT; GROTE
  A groat. Chaucer.
• SELF-CONTAINED
  Having all the essential working parts connected by a bedplate or framework, or contained in a case, etc., so that mutual relations of the parts do not depend upon fastening outside of the machine itself. Self-contained steam engine.
• PREACCUSATION
  Previous accusation.
• BELIBEL
  To libel or traduce; to calumniate. Fuller.
• AGROTECHNY
  That branch of agriculture dealing with the methods of conversion of agricultural products into manufactured articles; agricultural technology.
• INTERLIBEL
  To libel mutually.