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Word Meanings - DECLARATIVELY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

By distinct assertion; not impliedly; in the form of a declaration. The priest shall expiate it, that is, declaratively. Bates.

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  • PRIESTLIKE
    Priestly. B. Jonson.
  • DISTINCTNESS
    1. The quality or state of being distinct; a separation or difference that prevents confusion of parts or things. The soul's . . . distinctness from the body. Cudworth. 2. Nice discrimination; hence, clearness; precision; as, he stated
  • SHALLOP
    A boat. thrust the shallop from the floating strand. Spenser. Note: The term shallop is applied to boats of all sizes, from a light canoe up to a large boat with masts and sails.
  • IMPLIEDLY
    By implication or inference. Bp. Montagu.
  • DISTINCTURE
    Distinctness.
  • DISTINCTIVENESS
    State of being distinctive.
  • PRIESTING
    The office of a priest. Milton.
  • DISTINCTIVE
    1. Marking or expressing distinction or difference; distinguishing; characteristic; peculiar. The distinctive character and institutions of New England. Bancroft. 2. Having the power to distinguish and discern; discriminating. Sir T. Browne.
  • SHALLOON
    A thin, loosely woven, twilled worsted stuff. In blue shalloon shall Hannibal be clad. Swift.
  • SHALLOW-BRAINED
    Weak in intellect; foolish; empty-headed. South.
  • PRIESTESS
    A woman who officiated in sacred rites among pagans. Abp. Potter.
  • SHALLOW-WAISTED
    Having a flush deck, or with only a moderate depression amidships; -- said of a vessel.
  • SHALLOW
    schalowe, probably originally, sloping or shelving; cf. Icel. skjalgr wry, squinting, AS. sceolh, D. & G. scheel, OHG. schelah. Cf. Shelve 1. Not deep; having little depth; shoal. "Shallow brooks, and rivers wide." Milton. 2. Not deep in tone.
  • PRIEST-RIDDEN
    Controlled or oppressed by priests; as, a priest-ridden people. Swift.
  • DISTINCTION
    1. A marking off by visible signs; separation into parts; division. The distinction of tragedy into acts was not known. Dryden. 2. The act of distinguishing or denoting the differences between objects, or the qualities by which one is known from
  • PRIESTISM
    The influence, doctrines, principles, etc., of priests or the priesthood.
  • EXPIATE
    + piare to seek to appease, to purify with sacred rites, fr. pius 1. To extinguish the guilt of by sufferance of penalty or some equivalent; to make complete satisfaction for; to atone for; to make amends for; to make expiation for; as, to expiate
  • SHALLOT
    A small kind of onion growing in clusters, and ready for gathering in spring; a scallion, or eschalot.
  • SHALL
    sholde, scholde, AS. scal, sceal, I am obliged, imp. scolde, sceolde, inf. sculan; akin to OS. skulan, pres. skal, imp. skolda, D. zullen, pres. zal, imp. zoude, zou, OHG. solan, scolan, pres. scal, sol. imp. scolta, solta, G. sollen, pres. soll,
  • PRIESTCAP
    A form of redan, so named from its shape; -- called also swallowtail.
  • CONTRADISTINCT
    Distinguished by opposite qualities. J. Goodwin.
  • UNDISTINCTLY
    Indistinctly.
  • INDISTINCTION
    Want of distinction or distinguishableness; confusion; uncertainty; indiscrimination. The indistinction of many of the same name . . . hath made some doubt. Sir T. Browne. An indistinction of all persons, or equality of all orders, is far from being
  • SELF-ASSERTION
    The act of asserting one's self, or one's own rights or claims; the quality of being self-asserting.
  • HIGH-PRIESTHOOD
    The office, dignity, or position of a high priest.
  • INDISTINCTLY
    In an indistinct manner; not clearly; confusedly; dimly; as, certain ideas are indistinctly comprehended. In its sides it was bounded distinctly, but on its ends confusedly an indistinctly. Sir I. Newton.

 

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