Word Meanings - BROMIDIOM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A conventional comment or saying, such as those characteristic of bromides.

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• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• SAYING
  That which is said; a declaration; a statement, especially a proverbial one; an aphorism; a proverb. Many are the sayings of the wise, In ancient and in modern books enrolled. Milton. Syn. -- Declaration; speech; adage; maxim; aphorism; apothegm;
• CONVENTIONALLY
  In a conventional manner.
• SAYMAN
  One who assays.
• CONVENTIONAL
  1. Formed by agreement or compact; stipulated. Conventional services reserved by tenures upon grants, made out of the crown or knights' service. Sir M. Hale. 2. Growing out of, or depending on, custom or tacit agreement; sanctioned by
• CONVENTIONALISM
  The principles or practice of conventionalizing. See Conventionalize, v. t. (more info) 1. That which is received or established by convention or arbitrary agreement; that which is in accordance with the fashion, tradition, or usage.
• THOSE
  The plural of that. See That.
• COMMENTER
  One who makes or writes comments; a commentator; an annotator.
• CONVENTIONALITY
  The state of being conventional; adherence to social formalities or usages; that which is established by conventional use; one of the customary usages of social life.
• COMMENTATORSHIP
  The office or occupation of a commentator.
• COMMENTITIOUS
  Fictitious or imaginary; unreal; as, a commentitious system of religion. Warburton.
• CONVENTIONALIST
  1. One who adheres to a convention or treaty. 2. One who is governed by conventionalism.
• CONVENTIONALIZATION
  The act of making conventional. The state of being conventional.
• SAYER
  One who says; an utterer. Mr. Curran was something much better than a sayer of smart sayings. Jeffrey.
• COMMENTATORIAL
  Pertaining to the making of commentaries. Whewell.
• CHARACTERISTICALLY
  In a characteristic manner; in a way that characterizes.
• SAYMASTER
  A master of assay; one who tries or proves. "Great saymaster of state." D. Jonson.
• CHARACTERISTICAL
  Characteristic.
• SAYETTE
  A mixed stuff, called also sagathy. See Sagathy.
• SAY
  Saw. Chaucer.
• SOUTHSAY
  See SOOTHSAY
• VISAYAN
  A member of the most numerous of the native races of the Philippines, occupying the Visayan Islands and the northern coast Mindanao; also, their language. The Visayans possessed a native culture and alphabet.
• SPATHOSE
  See SPATHIC
• UNDERSAY
  To say by way of derogation or contradiction. Spenser.
• ASSAY POUND
  A small standard weight used in assaying bullion, etc., sometimes equaling 0.5 gram, but varying with the assayer.
• ESSAYER
  One who essays. Addison.
• GAINSAY
  To contradict; to deny; to controvert; to dispute; to forbid. I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist. Luke xxi. 15. The just gods gainsay That any drop thou borrow'dst from thy mother,
• AGAINSAY
  To gainsay. Wyclif.
• MISSAY
  1. To say wrongly. 2. To speak evil of; to slander.
• ESSAY
  A composition treating of any particular subject; -- usually shorter and less methodical than a formal, finished treatise; as, an essay on the life and writings of Homer; an essay on fossils, or on commerce. 3. An assay. See Assay, n.
• GAINSAYER
  One who gainsays, contradicts, or denies. "To convince the gainsayers." Tit. i. 9.
• SOUTHSAYER
  See SOOTHSAYER