Word Meanings - ANTIQUARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to antiquity. "Instructed by the antiquary times." Shak.

Related words: (words related to ANTIQUARY)

• INSTRUCTRESS
  A woman who instructs; a preceptress; a governess. Johnson.
• ANTIQUITY
  1. The quality of being ancient; ancientness; great age; as, a statue of remarkable antiquity; a family of great antiquity. 2. Old age. It not your voice broken . . . and every part about you blasted with antiquity Shak. 3. Ancient times; former
• TIMESERVING
  Obsequiously complying with the spirit of the times, or the humors of those in power.
• ANTIQUARY
  Pertaining to antiquity. "Instructed by the antiquary times." Shak.
• 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
• INSTRUCTION
  1. The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with knowledge; information. 2. That which instructs, or with which one is instructed; the intelligence or information imparted; as: Precept; information; teachings. Direction; order; command.
• INSTRUCTER
  See INSTRUCTOR
• TIMESERVER
  One who adapts his opinions and manners to the times; one who obsequiously compiles with the ruling power; -- now used only in a bad sense.
• INSTRUCTIVE
  Conveying knowledge; serving to instruct or inform; as, experience furnishes very instructive lessons. Addison. In various talk the instructive hours they past. Pope. -- In*struct"ive*ly, adv. -- In*struct"ive*ness, n. The pregnant instructiveness
• TIMESAVING
  Saving time; as, a timesaving expedient.
• INSTRUCTIBLE
  Capable of being instructed; teachable; docible. Bacon.
• INSTRUCTOR
  One who instructs; one who imparts knowledge to another; a teacher.
• INSTRUCT
  1. Arranged; furnished; provided. "He had neither ship instruct with oars, nor men." Chapman. 2. Instructed; taught; enlightened. Milton.
• INSTRUCTIONAL
  Pertaining to, or promoting, instruction; educational.
• BETIME; BETIMES
  1. In good season or time; before it is late; seasonably; early. To measure life learn thou betimes. Milton. To rise betimes is often harder than to do all the day's work. Barrow. 2. In a short time; soon; speedily; forth with. He tires betimes
• PREINSTRUCT
  To instruct previously or beforehand. Dr. H. More.
• SOMETIMES
  1. Formerly; sometime. That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march. Shak. 2. At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally. It is good that we sometimes be contradicted. Jer. Taylor. Sometimes . . .
• MISINSTRUCT
  To instruct amiss.
• MISINSTRUCTION
  Wrong or improper instruction.
• OFTENTIMES
  Frequently; often; many times. Wordsworth.
• OFTTIMES
  Frequently; often. Milton.
• REINSTRUCT
  To instruct anew.