Word Meanings - DISSERTATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To deal in dissertation; to write dissertations; to discourse. J. Foster.
Related words: (words related to DISSERTATE)
- DISSERTATIONAL
Relating to dissertations; resembling a dissertation. - WRITER
1. One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk. They that handle the pen of the writer. Judg. v. 14. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. Ps. xlv. 1. 2. One who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author; as, a writer - DISCOURSER
1. One who discourse; a narrator; a speaker; an haranguer. In his conversation he was the most clear discourser. Milward. 2. The writer of a treatise or dissertation. Philologers and critical discoursers. Sir T. Browne. - WRITERSHIP
The office of a writer. - WRITE
to scratch, to score; akin to OS. writan to write, to tear, to wound, D. rijten to tear, to rend, G. reissen, OHG. rizan, Icel. rita to 1. To set down, as legible characters; to form the conveyance of meaning; to inscribe on any material - FOSTERLING
A foster child. - DISCOURSE
fr. discurrere, discursum, to run to and fro, to discourse; dis- + 1. The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning; range - FOSTER
1. To feed; to nourish; to support; to bring up. Some say that ravens foster forlorn children. Shak. 2. To cherish; to promote the growth of; to encourage; to sustain and promote; as, to foster genius. - DISSERTATION
A formal or elaborate argumentative discourse, oral or written; a disquisition; an essay; a discussion; as, Dissertations on the Prophecies. - FOSTERER
One who, or that which, fosters. - FOSTERMENT
Food; nourishment. - DISSERTATIONIST
A writer of dissertations. - FOSTERAGE
The care of a foster child; the charge of nursing. Sir W. Raleigh. - REWRITE
To write again. Young. - PLAYWRITER
A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky. - STORY-WRITER
1. One who writes short stories, as for magazines. 2. An historian; a chronicler. "Rathums, the story-writer." 1 Esdr. ii. 17. - UNDERWRITER
One who underwrites his name to the conditions of an insurance policy, especially of a marine policy; an insurer. - UNWRITE
To cancel, as what is written; to erase. Milton. - OUTWRITE
To exceed or excel in writing. - NEWS-WRITER
One who gathered news for, and wrote, news-letters. Macaulay. - TYPEWRITER
1. An instrument for writing by means of type, a typewheel, or the like, in which the operator makes use of a sort of keyboard, in order to obtain printed impressions of the characters upon paper. 2. One who uses such an instrument. - TYPEWRITE
To write with a typewriter. - MISWRITE
To write incorrectly.