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Word Meanings - ALTERCATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The contend in words; to dispute with zeal, heat, or anger; to wrangle.

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  • WRANGLE
    An angry dispute; a noisy quarrel; a squabble; an altercation. Syn. -- Altercation; bickering; brawl; jar; jangle; contest; controversy. See Altercation.
  • ACCORD
    1. To agree; to correspond; to be in harmony; -- followed by with, formerly also by to; as, his disposition accords with his looks. My heart accordeth with my tongue. Shak. Thy actions to thy words accord. Milton. 2. To agree in pitch and tone.
  • CONCURRENCE
    1. The act of concurring; a meeting or coming together; union; conjunction; combination. We have no other measure but our own ideas, with the concurence of other probable reasons, to persuade us. Locke. 2. A meeting of minds; agreement in opinion;
  • ACCORDANCY
    Accordance. Paley.
  • ACCORDANTLY
    In accordance or agreement; agreeably; conformably; -- followed by with or to.
  • ACCORDER
    One who accords, assents, or concedes.
  • ACCORDINGLY
    1. Agreeably; correspondingly; suitably; in a manner conformable. Behold, and so proceed accordingly. Shak. 2. In natural sequence; consequently; so. Syn. -- Consequently; therefore; wherefore; hence; so. -- Accordingly, Consequently, indicate
  • JANGLERESS
    A female prater or babbler.
  • BRAWLING
    1. Quarreling; quarrelsome; noisy. She is an irksome brawling scold. Shak. 2. Making a loud confused noise. See Brawl, v. i., 3. A brawling stream. J. S. Shairp.
  • AGREER
    One who agrees.
  • ACCORDMENT
    Agreement; reconcilement. Gower.
  • ACCORDING
    Agreeing; in agreement or harmony; harmonious. "This according voice of national wisdom." Burke. "Mind and soul according well." Tennyson. According to him, every person was to be bought. Macaulay. Our zeal should be according to knowledge. Sprat.
  • CONCURRING
    Agreeing. Concurring figure , one which, being laid on another, exactly meets every part of it, or one which correspondends with another in all its parts.
  • CONTENDER
    One who contends; a contestant.
  • JANGLERY
    Jangling. Chaucer.
  • CONCUR
    1. To run together; to meet. Anon they fierce encountering both concurred With grisly looks and faces like their fates. J. Hughes. 2. To meet in the same point; to combine or conjoin; to contribute or help toward a common object or effect. When
  • WRANGLER
    1. An angry disputant; one who disputes with heat or peevishness. "Noisy and contentious wranglers." I. Watts. 2. One of those who stand in the first rank of honors in the University of Cambridge, England. They are called, according to their rank,
  • BRAWLER
    One that brawls; wrangler. Common brawler , one who disturbs a neighborhood by brawling (and is therefore indictable at common law as a nuisance). Wharton.
  • CONTENDRESS
    A female contestant.
  • AGREEABLENESS
    1. The quality of being agreeable or pleasing; that quality which gives satisfaction or moderate pleasure to the mind or senses. That author . . . has an agreeableness that charms us. Pope. 2. The quality of being agreeable or suitable;
  • DISAGREEABLENESS
    The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
  • SHAGREEN; SHAGREENED
    Covered with rough scales or points like those on shagreen. (more info) 1. Made or covered with the leather called shagreen. "A shagreen case of lancets." T. Hook.
  • SHAGREEN
    To chagrin.
  • DISAGREER
    One who disagrees. Hammond.
  • BON-ACCORD
    Good will; good fellowship; agreement.
  • BAGREEF
    The lower reef of fore and aft sails; also, the upper reef of topsails. Ham. Nav. Encyc.
  • NOLO CONTENDERE
    A plea, by the defendant, in a criminal prosecution, which, without admitting guilt, subjects him to all the consequences of a plea of quilty.
  • HIRE PURCHASE; HIRE PURCHASE AGREEMENT; HIRE AND PURCHASE AGREEMENT
    A contract (more fully called contract of hire with an option of purchase) in which a person hires goods for a specified period and at a fixed rent, with the added condition that if he shall retain the goods for the full period and pay
  • DISAGREEANCE
    Disagreement.

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