Word Meanings - APPEASEMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The act of appeasing, or the state of being appeased; pacification. Hayward.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of APPEASEMENT)
- Quiet
- Rest
- repose
- stillness
- calm
- appeasement
- pacification
- silence
- peace
- Sacrifice
- Offering
- oblation
- immolation
- surrender
- destruction
- atonement
- propitiation
- expiation
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of APPEASEMENT)
- Rouse
- excite
- disturb
- agitate
- stir
- urge
- goad
- Rise
- stand
- wander
- flit
- flutter
- remove
- transfer
- Reserve
- retain
- appropriate
- withhold
Related words: (words related to APPEASEMENT)
- RESERVE
1. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. "I have reserved to myself nothing." Shak. 2. Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain. Gen. - OFFER
ferre to bear, bring. The English word was influenced by F. offrir to 1. To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up. Thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for - APPROPRIATENESS
The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude. - ROUSE
To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances. - OFFERER
One who offers; esp., one who offers something to God in worship. Hooker. - AGITATE
1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper. 2. To move or actuate. Thomson. 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly - WANDERMENT
The act of wandering, or roaming. Bp. Hall. - PACIFICATION
The act or process of pacifying, or of making peace between parties at variance; reconciliation. "An embassy of pacification." Bacon. - PEACEBREAKER
One who disturbs the public peace. -- Peace"break`ing, n. - RETAINMENT
The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More. - IMMOLATION
1. The act of immolating, or the state of being immolated, or sacrificed. Sir. T. Browne. 2. That which is immolated; a sacrifice. - SACRIFICE
1. The offering of anything to God, or to a god; consecratory rite. Great pomp, and sacrifice, and praises loud, To Dagon. Milton. 2. Anything consecrated and offered to God, or to a divinity; an immolated victin, or an offering of any kind, laid - STANDARD
The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority. By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver. Arbuthnot. (more info) extendere to spread out, extend, - STANDPOINT
A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are compared and judged. - STANDPIPE
A vertical pipe, open at the top, between a hydrant and a reservoir, to equalize the flow of water; also, a large vertical pipe, near a pumping engine, into which water is forced up, so as to give it sufficient head to rise to the required level - WANDEROO
A large monkey native of Malabar. It is black, or nearly so, but has a long white or gray beard encircling the face. Called also maha, silenus, neelbhunder, lion-tailed baboon, and great wanderoo. Note: The name is sometimes applied also to other - APPROPRIATE
Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper. In its strict and appropriate meaning. Porteus. Appropriate acts of divine worship. Stillingfleet. It is not at all times easy to find words - FLUTTER
1. To vibrate or move quickly; as, a bird flutters its wings. 2. To drive in disorder; to throw into confusion. Like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli. Shak. - OFFERTURE
Offer; proposal; overture. More offertures and advantages to his crown. Milton. - EXCITEFUL
Full of exciting qualities; as, an exciteful story; exciteful players. Chapman. - BYSTANDER
One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey. Syn. -- Looker on; spectator; beholder; observer. - DISQUIETTUDE
Want of peace or tranquility; uneasiness; disturbance; agitation; anxiety. Fears and disquietude, and unavoidable anxieties of mind. Abp. Sharp. - TROUSERING
Cloth or material for making trousers. - FORWANDER
To wander away; to go astray; to wander far and to weariness. - EFFLAGITATE
To ask urgently. Cockeram. - DISQUIETLY
In a disquiet manner; uneasily; as, he rested disquietly that night. Wiseman. - UNQUIET
To disquiet. Ld. Herbert. - TROUSE
Trousers. Spenser. - AGAINSTAND
To withstand.