Word Meanings - CUSTODY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A keeping or guarding; care, watch, inspection, for keeping, preservation, or security. A fleet of thirty ships for the custody of the narrow seas. Bacon. 2. Judicial or penal safe-keeping. Jailer, take him to thy custody. Shak. 3. State of

Additional info about word: CUSTODY

1. A keeping or guarding; care, watch, inspection, for keeping, preservation, or security. A fleet of thirty ships for the custody of the narrow seas. Bacon. 2. Judicial or penal safe-keeping. Jailer, take him to thy custody. Shak. 3. State of being guarded and watched to prevent escape; restraint of liberty; confinement; imprisonment. What pease will be given To us enslaved, but custody severe, And stripes and arbitrary punishment Milton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CUSTODY)

• Care
• Attention
• pains
• anxiety
• concern
• trouble
• circumspection
• regard
• solicitude
• caution
• prevention
• custody
• preservation
• thrift
• heed
• foresight
• wariness
• economy
• prudence
• Consignment
• Custody
• commission
• delegation

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CUSTODY)

• Miss
• overlook
• disregard
• despise
• dislike
• contemn
• hate
• loathe
• misconsider
• misconceive
• misestimate
• misjudge
• Compose
• calm
• allay
• appease
• please
• soothe
• delight
• gratify
• recreate
• entertain
• relieve
• refresh

Related words: (words related to CUSTODY)

• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• CAUTIONARY BLOCK
  A block in which two or more trains are permitted to travel, under restrictions imposed by a caution card or the like.
• DELIGHTING
  Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.
• MISJUDGE
  To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.
• TROUBLER
  One who troubles or disturbs; one who afflicts or molests; a disturber; as, a troubler of the peace. The rich troublers of the world's repose. Waller.
• THRIFTINESS
  The quality or state of being thrifty; thrift.
• DELIGHTLESS
  Void of delight. Thomson.
• DISLIKE
  1. To regard with dislike or aversion; to disapprove; to disrelish. Every nation dislikes an impost. Johnson. 2. To awaken dislike in; to displease. "Disliking countenance." Marston. "It dislikes me." Shak.
• CONSIGNMENT
  The act of consigning or sending property to an agent or correspondent in another place, as for care, sale, etc. (more info) 1. The act of consigning; consignation.
• SOLICITUDE
  The state of being solicitous; uneasiness of mind occasioned by fear of evil or desire good; anxiety. The many cares and great labors of worldly men, their solicitude and outward shows. Sir W. Raleigh. The mother looked at her with fond solicitude.
• THRIFTILY
  1. In a thrifty manner. 2. Carefully; properly; becomingly. A young clerk . . . in Latin thriftily them gret . Chaucer.
• COMPOSE
  To arrange in a composing stick in order for printing; to set . (more info) 1. To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion. Zeal ought to be composed of the hidhest degrees of all
• CONTEMNER
  One who contemns; a despiser; a scorner. "Contemners of the gods." South.
• COMPOSER
  1. One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music. If the thoughts of such authors have nothing in them, they at least . . . show an honest industry and a good intention in the composer. Addison. His most brilliant and
• COMMISSIONAIRE
  1. One intrusted with a commission, now only a small commission, as an errand; esp., an attendant or subordinate employee in a public office, hotel, or the like. The commissionaire familiar to European travelers performs miscellaneous services
• PLEASER
  One who pleases or gratifies.
• ENTERTAINER
  One who entertains.
• TROUBLESOME
  Giving trouble or anxiety; vexatious; burdensome; wearisome. This troublesome world. Book of Common Prayer. These troublesome disguises that we wear. Milton. My mother will never be troublesome to me. Pope. Syn. -- Uneasy; vexatious; perplexing;
• CAUTION
  scavere) to be on one's guard, to take care to be on the 1. A careful attention to the probable effects of an act, in order that failure or harm may be avoided; prudence in regard to danger; provident care; wariness. 2. Security; guaranty; bail.
• DELIGHTOUS
  Delightful. Rom. of R.
• UNPRUDENCE
  Imprudence.
• UNTHRIFTY
  Not thrifty; profuse. Spenser.
• OVERTROUBLED
  Excessively troubled.
• UNCONCERNMENT
  The state of being unconcerned, or of having no share or concern; unconcernedness. South.
• AFTERPAINS
  The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth.
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• SPENDTHRIFT
  One who spends money profusely or improvidently; a prodigal; one who lavishes or wastes his estate. Also used figuratively. A woman who was a generous spendthrift of life. Mrs. R. H. Davis.
• DECOMPOSE
  To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay.
• PRECAUTION
  praecautum, to guard against beforehand; prae before + cavere be on 1. Previous caution or care; caution previously employed to prevent mischief or secure good; as, his life was saved by precaution. They treasured up their supposed discoveries
• OVERPLEASE
  To please excessively.