Word Meanings - CONDEMNATORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Condemning; containing or imposing condemnation or censure; as, a condemnatory sentence or decree.

Related words: (words related to CONDEMNATORY)

• IMPOSABLE
  Capable of being imposed or laid on. Hammond.
• CENSURER
  One who censures. Sha.
• CONTAINMENT
  That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
• IMPOSINGNESS
  The quality of being imposing.
• CONDEMNER
  One who condemns or censures.
• IMPOSTRESS; IMPOSTRIX
  A woman who imposes upon or deceives others. Fuller.
• IMPOSTURAGE
  Imposture; cheating. Jer. Taylor.
• IMPOSTOR
  One who imposes upon others; a person who assumes a character or title not his own, for the purpose of deception; a pretender. "The fraudulent impostor foul." Milton. Syn. -- Deceiver; cheat; rogue. See Deceiver.
• IMPOSTHUMATION
  1. The act of forming an abscess; state of being inflamed; suppuration. 2. An abscess; an imposthume. Coxe.
• IMPOSING
  1. Laying as a duty; enjoining. 2. Adapted to impress forcibly; impressive; commanding; as, an imposing air; an imposing spectacle. "Large and imposing edifices." Bp. Hobart. 3. Deceiving; deluding; misleading.
• CONDEMNED
  1. Pronounced to be wrong, guilty, worthless, or forfeited; adjudged or sentenced to punishment, destruction, or confiscation. 2. Used for condemned persons. Richard Savage . . . had lain with fifty pounds weight of irons on his legs
• CONTAINANT
  A container.
• IMPOSTURY
  Imposture. Fuller.
• DECREE
  An edict or law made by a council for regulating any business within their jurisdiction; as, the decrees of ecclesiastical councils. Syn. -- Law; regulation; edict; ordinance. See Law. (more info) decretus, p. p. of decernere to decide;
• IMPOSE
  To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination. (more info) Etym: 1. To lay on; to set or place; to put; to deposit. Cakes of salt and barley did impose Within a wicker basket. Chapman. 2. To lay as a
• SENTENCER
  One who pronounced a sentence or condemnation.
• IMPOSINGLY
  In an imposing manner.
• CENSURE
  1. Judgment either favorable or unfavorable; opinion. Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Shak. 2. The act of blaming or finding fault with and condemning as wrong; reprehension; blame. Both the censure and the praise were merited.
• IMPOSTROUS
  Characterized by imposture; deceitful. "Impostrous pretense of knowledge." Grote.
• IMPOSTHUME
  A collection of pus or purulent matter in any part of an animal body; an abscess.
• PRECONDEMN
  To condemn beforehand. -- Pre*con`dem*na"tion, n.
• UNDECREED
  Not decreed. 2. Etym: (more info) 1. Etym:
• SELF-CONTAINED
  Having all the essential working parts connected by a bedplate or framework, or contained in a case, etc., so that mutual relations of the parts do not depend upon fastening outside of the machine itself. Self-contained steam engine.
• SELF-IMPOSTURE
  Imposture practiced on one's self; self-deceit. South.
• SELF-CONDEMNATION
  Condemnation of one's self by one's own judgment.