Word Meanings - DICAST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A functionary in ancient Athens answering nearly to the modern juryman.

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• MODERN
  1. Of or pertaining to the present time, or time not long past; late; not ancient or remote in past time; of recent period; as, modern days, ages, or time; modern authors; modern fashions; modern taste; modern practice. Bacon. 2. New and common;
• ANSWER
  1. To speak in defense against; to reply to in defense; as, to answer a charge; to answer an accusation. 2. To speak or write in return to, as in return to a call or question, or to a speech, declaration, argument, or the like; to reply to ; to
• MODERNIZATION
  The act of rendering modern in style; the act or process of causing to conform to modern of thinking or acting.
• NEARLY
  In a near manner; not remotely; closely; intimately; almost.
• MODERNNESS
  The quality or state of being modern; recentness; novelty. M. Arnold.
• ANSWERLESS
  Having no answer, or impossible to be answered. Byron.
• ANCIENTNESS
  The quality of being ancient; antiquity; existence from old times.
• ANCIENTLY
  1. In ancient times. 2. In an ancient manner.
• ANSWERABLE
  1. Obliged to answer; liable to be called to account; liable to pay, indemnify, or make good; accountable; amenable; responsible; as, an agent is answerable to his principal; to be answerable for a debt, or for damages. Will any man argue that
• ANSWERABLY
  In an answerable manner; in due proportion or correspondence; suitably.
• MODERNLY
  In modern times. Milton.
• FUNCTIONARY
  One charged with the performance of a function or office; as, a public functionary; secular functionaries.
• JURYMAN
  One who is impaneled on a jury, or who serves as a juror.
• MODERNITY
  Modernness; something modern. Walpole.
• MODERNISM
  Modern practice; a thing of recent date; esp., a modern usage or mode of expression.
• ANCIENTRY
  1. Antiquity; what is ancient. They contain not word of ancientry. West. 2. Old age; also, old people. Wronging the ancientry. Shak. 3. Ancient lineage; ancestry; dignity of birth. A gentleman of more ancientry than estate. Fuller.
• ANSWERER
  One who answers.
• MODERNIZE
  To render modern; to adapt to modern person or things; to cause to conform to recent or present usage or taste. Percy.
• MODERNIZER
  One who modernizes.
• ANSWERABLENESS
  The quality of being answerable, liable, responsible, or correspondent.
• UNANSWERABLE
  Not answerable; irrefutable; conclusive; decisive; as, he have an unanswerable argument. -- Un*an"swer*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*an"swer*a*bly, adv.
• CURVILINEARLY
  In a curvilinear manner.
• UNANSWERABILITY
  The quality of being unanswerable; unanswerableness.