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Word Meanings - CANKEROUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Affecting like a canker. "Canrerous shackles." Thomson. Misdeem it not a cankerous change. Wordsworth.

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  • AFFECTATIONIST
    One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall.
  • CHANGEFUL
    Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain. Pope. His course had been changeful. Motley. -- Change"ful*ly, adv. -- Change"ful*ness, n.
  • AFFECTION
    Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. Most wretched man, That to affections
  • AFFECTIBILITY
    The quality or state of being affectible.
  • CANKEREDLY
    Fretfully; spitefully.
  • AFFECTIVELY
    In an affective manner; impressively; emotionally.
  • CHANGEABLY
    In a changeable manner.
  • AFFECTIONED
    1. Disposed. Be kindly affectioned one to another. Rom. xii. 10. 2. Affected; conceited. Shak.
  • AFFECTER
    One who affects, assumes, pretends, or strives after. "Affecters of wit." Abp. Secker.
  • AFFECTIVE
    1. Tending to affect; affecting. Burnet. 2. Pertaining to or exciting emotion; affectional; emotional. Rogers.
  • AFFECTIONATED
    Disposed; inclined. Affectionated to the people. Holinshed.
  • AFFECTIONATE
    1. Having affection or warm regard; loving; fond; as, an affectionate brother. 2. Kindly inclined; zealous. Johson. Man, in his love God, and desire to please him, can never be too affectionate. Sprat. 3. Proceeding from affection; indicating
  • THOMSONIANISM
    An empirical system which assumes that the human body is composed of four elements, earth, air, fire, and water, and that vegetable medicines alone should be used; -- from the founder, Dr. Samuel Thomson, of Massachusetts.
  • CANKER
    A disease incident to trees, causing the bark to rot and fall off. (more info) OHG chanchar.), fr. L. cancer a cancer; or if a native word, cf. Gr. 1. A corroding or sloughing ulcer; esp. a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in
  • AFFECTEDLY
    1. In an affected manner; hypocritically; with more show than reality. 2. Lovingly; with tender care. Shak.
  • CHANGE
    1. To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change the countenance. Therefore will I change their glory into shame. Hosea. iv. 7. 2. To alter by
  • CANKERWORM
    The larva of two species of geometrid moths which are very injurious to fruit and shade trees by eating, and often entirely destroying, the foliage. Other similar larvæ are also called cankerworms. Note: The autumnal species becomes adult late
  • AFFECTEDNESS
    Affectation.
  • AFFECTIBLE
    That may be affected. Lay aside the absolute, and, by union with the creaturely, become affectible. Coleridge.
  • AFFECTIONAL
    Of or pertaining to the affections; as, affectional impulses; an affectional nature.
  • OVERAFFECT
    To affect or care for unduly. Milton.
  • MISAFFECT
    To dislike.
  • REEXCHANGE
    To exchange anew; to reverse .
  • INAFFECTED
    Unaffected. -- In`af*fect"ed*ly, adv.
  • EXCHANGE EDITOR
    An editor who inspects, and culls from, periodicals, or exchanges, for his own publication.
  • COUNTERCHANGED
    Having the tinctures exchanged mutually; thus, if the field is divided palewise, or and azure, and cross is borne counterchanged, that part of the cross which comes on the azure side will be or, and that on the or side will be azure. (more info)
  • COUNTERCHANGE
    1. To give and receive; to cause to change places; to exchange. 2. To checker; to diversify, as in heraldic counterchanging. See Counterchaged, a., 2. With-elms, that counterchange the floor Of this flat lawn with dusk and bright. Tennyson.
  • MISAFFECTED
    Ill disposed.
  • INTERCHANGEABILITY
    The state or quality of being interchangeable; interchangeableness.
  • MISAFFECTION
    An evil or wrong affection; the state of being ill affected. Bp. Hall.

 

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