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Word Meanings - ENGIRD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To gird; to encompass. Shak.

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  • DISMISSIVE
    Giving dismission.
  • COMPASSIONATELY
    In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
  • DISMISSAL
    Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
  • MISMANAGER
    One who manages ill.
  • EXPAND
    To become widely opened, spread apart, dilated, distended, or enlarged; as, flowers expand in the spring; metals expand by heat; the heart expands with joy. Dryden.
  • BOTCH
    1. A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease. Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss. Milton. 2. A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner. 3. Work done in a bungling
  • UNFOLDER
    One who, or that which, unfolds.
  • BUNGLER
    A clumsy, awkward workman; one who bungles. If to be a dunce or a bungler in any profession be shameful, how much more ignominious and infamous to a scholar to be such! Barrow.
  • BOTCHERY
    A botching, or that which is done by botching; clumsy or careless workmanship.
  • DISPLAYER
    One who, or that which, displays.
  • DISMISS
    1. To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away. He dismissed the assembly. Acts xix. 41. Dismiss their cares when they dismiss their flock. Cowper. Though he soon dismissed himself from state affairs. Dryden.
  • ENGIRDLE
    To surround as with a girdle; to girdle.
  • ENCOMPASSMENT
    The act of surrounding, or the state of being surrounded; circumvention. By this encompassment and drift of question. Shak.
  • UNFOLDMENT
    The acct of unfolding, or the state of being unfolded. The extreme unfoldment of the instinctive powers. C. Morris.
  • CIRCUMSCRIBE
    To draw a line around si as to touch at certain points without cutting. See Inscribe, 5. Syn. -- To bound; limit; restrict; confine; abridge; restrain; environ; encircle; inclose; encompass. (more info) 1. to write or engare around. Thereon is
  • MISCONSTRUER
    One who misconstrues.
  • ENVIRONS
    The parts or places which surround another place, or lie in its neighborhood; suburbs; as, the environs of a city or town. Chesterfield.
  • COMPASSABLE
    Capable of being compassed or accomplished. Burke.
  • UNFOLD
    1. To open the folds of; to expand; to spread out; as, to unfold a tablecloth. Unfold thy forehead gathered into frowns. Herbert. 2. To open, as anything covered or close; to lay open to view or contemplation; to bring out in all the details, or
  • BUNGLE
    A clumsy or awkward performance; a botch; a gross blunder. Those errors and bungles which are committed. Cudworth.
  • INCOMPASSIONATE
    Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n.
  • DELIBERATELY
    With careful consideration, or deliberation; circumspectly; warily; not hastily or rashly; slowly; as, a purpose deliberately formed.
  • DELIBERATE
    1. Weighing facts and arguments with a view a choice or decision; carefully considering the probable consequences of a step; circumspect; slow in determining; -- applied to persons; as, a deliberate judge or counselor. "These deliberate fools."

 

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