Word Meanings - COURTBRED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Bred, or educated, at court; polished; courtly.

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• POLISHMENT
  The act of polishing, or the state of being polished.
• EDUCATIONIST
  One who is versed in the theories of, or who advocates and promotes, education.
• COURTESAN
  A woman who prostitutes herself for hire; a prostitute; a harlot. Lasciviously decked like a courtesan. Sir H. Wotton. (more info) courtier, It. cortigiano; or directly fr. It. cortigiana, or Sp.
• EDUCATOR
  One who educates; a teacher.
• COURT TENNIS
  See TENNIS
• COURT-CUPBOARD
  A movable sideboard or buffet, on which plate and other articles of luxury were displayed on special ocasions. A way with the joint stools, remove the court-cupboard, look to the plate. Shak.
• EDUCATION
  The act or process of educating; the result of educating, as determined by the knowledge skill, or discipline of character, acquired; also, the act or process of training by a prescribed or customary course of study or discipline; as, an education
• POLISHED
  Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished manners; polished verse.
• COURTEPY
  A short coat of coarse cloth. Full threadbare was his overeste courtepy. Chaucer.
• COURTBRED
  Bred, or educated, at court; polished; courtly.
• COURTESANSHIP
  Harlotry.
• COURT-MARTIAL
  A court consisting of military or naval officers, for the trial of one belonging to the army or navy, or of offenses against military or naval law.
• POLISHABLE
  Capable of being polished.
• COURTLIKE
  After the manner of a court; elegant; polite; courtly.
• COURTEOUSNESS
  The quality of being courteous; politeness; courtesy.
• COURT-BARON
  An inferior court of civil jurisdiction, attached to a manor, and held by the steward; a baron's court; -- now fallen into disuse.
• COURTELLE
  a wool-like fabric.
• EDUCATIVE
  Tending to educate; that gives education; as, an educative process; an educative experience.
• POLISHEDNESS
  The quality of being polished.
• COURTEOUSLY
  In a courteous manner.
• REPOLISH
  To polish again.
• CHAUTAUQUA SYSTEM OF EDUCATION
  The system of home study established in connection with the summer schools assembled at Chautauqua, N. Y., by the Methodist Episcopal bishop, J. H. Vincent.
• MISEDUCATE
  To educate in a wrong manner.
• OUTCOURT
  An outer or exterior court. The skirts and outcourts of heaven. South.
• DEPOLISHING
  The process of removing the vitreous glaze from porcelain, leaving the dull luster of the surface of ivory porcelian. Knight.
• UNCOURTLINESS
  Absence of courtliness; rudeness; rusticity. Addison.