Word Meanings - CONDOTTIERE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A military adventurer of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, who sold his services, and those of his followers, to any party in any contest.

Related words: (words related to CONDOTTIERE)

• PARTY
  1. A part or portion. "The most party of the time." Chaucer. 2. A number of persons united in opinion or action, as distinguished from, or opposed to, the rest of a community or association; esp., one of the parts into which a people is divided
• CONTESTABLE
  Capable of being contested; debatable.
• THOSE
  The plural of that. See That.
• CONTESTATION
  1. The act of contesting; emulation; rivalry; strife; dispute. "Loverlike contestation." Milton. After years spent in domestic, unsociable contestations, she found means to withdraw. Clarendon. 2. Proof by witness; attestation; testimony. A solemn
• PARTY-COLORED; PARTI-COLORED
  Colored with different tints; variegated; as, a party-colored flower. "Parti-colored lambs." Shak.
• PARTYISM
  Devotion to party.
• ADVENTURER
  1. One who adventures; as, the merchant adventurers; one who seeks his fortune in new and hazardous or perilous enterprises. 2. A social pretender on the lookout for advancement.
• CONTESTANT
  One who contests; an opponent; a litigant; a disputant; one who claims that which has been awarded to another.
• CONTEST
  To make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit; to dispute or resist; as a claim, by course of law; to controvert. To contest an election. To strive to be elected. To dispute the declared result of an election. Syn. -- To
• CONTESTINGLY
  In a contending manner.
• PARTY-COATED
  Having a motley coat, or coat of divers colors. Shak.
• MILITARY
  1. Of or pertaining to soldiers, to arms, or to war; belonging to, engaged in, or appropriate to, the affairs of war; as, a military parade; military discipline; military bravery; military conduct; military renown. Nor do I, as an enemy to peace,
• FIFTEENTH
  1. Next in order after the fourteenth; -- the ordinal of fifteen. 2. Consisting of one of fifteen equal parts or divisions of a thing.
• FOURTEENTH
  1. Next in order after the thirteenth; as, the fourteenth day of the month. 2. Making or constituting one of fourteen equal parts into which anything may be derived.
• SPATHOSE
  See SPATHIC
• POURPARTY
  A division; a divided share. To make pourparty, to divide and apportion lands previously held in common.
• INCONTESTED
  Not contested. Addison.
• PURPARTY
  A share, part, or portion of an estate allotted to a coparcener. I am forced to eat all the game of your purparties, as well as my own thirds. Walpole.
• COADVENTURER
  A fellow adventurer.
• UNCONTESTABLE
  Incontestable.
• XANTHOSE
  An orange-yellow substance found in pigment spots of certain crabs.
• PROGRESSIVE PARTY
  The political party formed, chiefly out of the Republican party, by the adherents of Theodore Roosevelt in the presidential campaign of 1912. The name Progressive party was chosen at the meeting held on Aug. 7, 1912, when the candidates
• PEOPLE'S PARTY
  A party formed in 1891, advocating in an increase of the currency, public ownership and operation of railroads, telegraphs, etc., an income tax, limitation in ownership of land, etc.
• FELDSPATHIC; FELDSPATHOSE
  Pertaining to, or consisting of, feldspar.