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Word Meanings - AGORA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An assembly; hence, the place of assembly, especially the market place, in an ancient Greek city.

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  • MARKETABLENESS
    Quality of being marketable.
  • PLACEMENT
    1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
  • PLACENTARY
    Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
  • PLACE-KICK
    To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
  • MARKETER
    One who attends a market to buy or sell; one who carries goods to market.
  • MARKETSTEAD
    A market place. Drayton.
  • GREEK CALENDS; GREEK KALENDS
    A time that will never come, as the Greeks had no calends.
  • GREEKLING
    A little Greek, or one of small esteem or pretensions. B. Jonson.
  • GREEKISH
    Peculiar to Greece.
  • ASSEMBLY
    A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble. Note: In some of the United States, the legislature, or the popular branch of it, is called the Assembly, or the General Assembly. In the Presbyterian Church, the General
  • PLACER
    One who places or sets. Spenser.
  • PLACE
    Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude. Place of arms , a place calculated for the rendezvous of men in arms, etc., as a fort which affords a safe
  • PLACENTA
    The vascular appendage which connects the fetus with the parent, and is cast off in parturition with the afterbirth. Note: In most mammals the placenta is principally developed from the allantois and chorion, and tufts of vascular villi
  • PLACEMAN
    One who holds or occupies a place; one who has office under government. Sir W. Scott.
  • ANCIENTNESS
    The quality of being ancient; antiquity; existence from old times.
  • ANCIENTLY
    1. In ancient times. 2. In an ancient manner.
  • PLACENTIOUS
    Pleasing; amiable. "A placentious person." Fuller.
  • HENCE
    ending; cf. -wards), also hen, henne, hennen, heonnen, heonene, AS. heonan, heonon, heona, hine; akin to OHG. hinnan, G. hinnen, OHG. 1. From this place; away. "Or that we hence wend." Chaucer. Arise, let us go hence. John xiv. 31. I will send
  • 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.
  • PLACEBO
    The first antiphon of the vespers for the dead.
  • HEREHENCE
    From hence.
  • WHENCEFORTH
    From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
  • REPLACEMENT
    The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
  • NEWMARKET
    A long, closely fitting cloak.
  • THENCEFROM
    From that place.
  • COMPLACENCE; COMPLACENCY
    1. Calm contentment; satisfaction; gratification. The inward complacence we find in acting reasonably and virtuously. Atterbury. Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacency, if they discover none of the like
  • FENUGREEK
    A plant cultivated for its strong- smelling seeds, which are "now only used for giving false importance to horse medicine and damaged hay." J. Smith (Pop. Names of Plants,
  • APLACENTAL
    Belonging to the Aplacentata; without placenta.
  • NEO-GREEK
    A member of a body of French painters of the middle 19th century. The term is rather one applied by outsiders to certain artists of grave and refined style, such as Hamon and Aubert, than a name adopted by the artists themselves.

 

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