Word Meanings - DURBAR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An audience hall; the court of a native prince; a state levee; a formal reception of native princes, given by the governor general of India.

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• FORMALITY
  The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller. 6. That which is formal; the formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while
• INDIANEER
  An Indiaman.
• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• STATEHOOD
  The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
• PRINCELESS
  Without a prince. Fuller.
• AUDIENCE
  1. The act of hearing; attention to sounds. Thou, therefore, give due audience, and attend. Milton. 2. Admittance to a hearing; a formal interview, esp. with a sovereign or the head of a government, for conference or the transaction of business.
• PRINCEDOM
  The jurisdiction, sovereignty, rank, or estate of a prince. Thrones, princedoms, powers, dominions, I reduce. Milton.
• GENERALIZED
  Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type.
• GENERALIZABLE
  Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule. Extreme cases are . . . not generalizable. Coleridge
• INDIA RUBBER
  . See Caoutchouc.
• GENERALTY
  Generality. Sir M. Hale.
• STATE SOCIALISM
  A form of socialism, esp. advocated in Germany, which, while retaining the right of private property and the institution of the family and other features of the present form of the state, would intervene by various measures intended to
• 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.
• GOVERNORSHIP
  The office of a governor.
• PRINCELY
  1. Of or relating to a prince; regal; royal; of highest rank or authority; as, princely birth, character, fortune, etc. 2. Suitable for, or becoming to, a prince; grand; august; munificent; magnificent; as, princely virtues; a princely fortune.
• 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.
• PRINCEHOOD
  Princeliness. E. Hall.
• COURTEPY
  A short coat of coarse cloth. Full threadbare was his overeste courtepy. Chaucer.
• FORMALIZE
  1. To give form, or a certain form, to; to model. 2. To render formal.
• ELIMINATIVE
  Relating to, or carrying on, elimination.
• CREBRICOSTATE
  Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
• NOMINATIVELY
  In the manner of a nominative; as a nominative.
• MAJOR GENERAL
  . An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps.
• EMANATIVE
  Issuing forth; effluent.
• DOMINATIVE
  Governing; ruling; imperious. Sir E. Sandys.
• SAGEBRUSH STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname.
• REFORMALIZE
  To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
• OLD LINE STATE
  Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
• ENSTATE
  See INSTATE
• REGNATIVE
  Ruling; governing.
• KATASTATE
  A substance formed by a katabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See Katabolic.
• COORDINATIVE
  Expressing coördination. J. W. Gibbs.
• BAYOU STATE
  Mississippi; -- a nickname, from its numerous bayous.