Word Meanings - ASSAILMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act or power of assailing; attack; assault. His most frequent assailment was the headache. Johnson.

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• FREQUENTATIVE
  Serving to express the frequent repetition of an action; as, a frequentative verb. -- n.
• ASSAILMENT
  The act or power of assailing; attack; assault. His most frequent assailment was the headache. Johnson.
• ASSAILER
  One who assails.
• ASSAULTABLE
  Capable of being assaulted.
• POWERFUL
  Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any
• POWERABLE
  1. Capable of being effected or accomplished by the application of power; possible. J. Young. 2. Capable of exerting power; powerful. Camden.
• JOHNSONIANISM
  A manner of acting or of writing peculiar to, or characteristic of, Dr. Johnson.
• JOHNSONESE
  The literary style of Dr. Samuel Johnson, or one formed in imitation of it; an inflated, stilted, or pompous style, affecting classical words. E. Everett.
• FREQUENTNESS
  The quality of being frequent.
• FREQUENTATION
  The act or habit of frequenting or visiting often; resort. Chesterfield.
• ASSAILANT
  Assailing; attacking. Milton.
• ASSAULT
  An apparently violent attempt, or willful offer with force or violence, to do hurt to another; an attempt or offer to beat another, accompanied by a degree of violence, but without touching his person, as by lifting the fist, or a cane,
• ATTACK
  1. To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault. "Attack their lines." Dryden. 2. To assail with unfriendly speech or writing; to begin a controversy with; to attempt to overthrow or bring into disrepute, by criticism
• FREQUENTABLE
  Accessible. Sidney.
• FREQUENT
  1. Often to be met with; happening at short intervals; often repeated or occurring; as, frequent visits. "Frequent feudal towers." Byron. 2. Addicted to any course of conduct; inclined to indulge in any practice; habitual; persistent. He has been
• FREQUENTAGE
  The practice or habit of frequenting. Southey.
• JOHNSON GRASS
  A tall perennial grass , valuable in the Southern and Western States for pasture and hay. The rootstocks are large and juicy and are eagerly sought by swine. Called also Cuba grass, Means grass, Evergreen millet, and Arabian millet.
• POWERLESS
  Destitute of power, force, or energy; weak; impotent; not able to produce any effect. -- Pow"er*less*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*less*ness, n.
• JOHNSONIAN
  Pertaining to or resembling Dr. Johnson or his style; pompous; inflated.
• ATTACKABLE
  Capable of being attacked.
• OVERFREQUENT
  Too frequent.
• CANDLE POWER
  Illuminating power, as of a lamp, or gas flame, reckoned in terms of the light of a standard candle.
• IMPOWER
  See EMPOWER
• POLICE POWER
  The inherent power of a government to regulate its police affairs. The term police power is not definitely fixed in meaning. In the earlier cases in the United States it was used as including the whole power of internal government, or the powers
• DISEMPOWER
  To deprive of power; to divest of strength. H. Bushnell.
• INFREQUENT
  Seldom happening or occurring; rare; uncommon; unusual. The act whereof is at this day infrequent or out of use among all sorts of men. Sir T. Elyot.
• EMPOWER
  1. To give authority to; to delegate power to; to commission; to authorize ; as, the Supreme Court is empowered to try and decide cases, civil or criminal; the attorney is empowered to sign an acquittance, and discharge the debtor. 2. To give