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Word Meanings - ENTICINGLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In an enticing manner; charmingly. "She . . . sings most enticingly." Addison.

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  • ENTICING
    That entices; alluring.
  • SINGSTER
    A songstress. Wyclif.
  • ENTICEMENT
    1. The act or practice of alluring or tempting; as, the enticements of evil companions. 2. That which entices, or incites to evil; means of allurement; alluring object; as, an enticement to sin. Syn. -- Allurement; attraction; temptation;
  • ENTICEABLE
    Capable of being enticed.
  • MANNERIST
    One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
  • MANNERISM
    Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
  • ENTICE
    To draw on, by exciting hope or desire; to allure; to attract; as, the bait enticed the fishes. Often in a bad sense: To lead astray; to induce to evil; to tempt; as, the sirens enticed them to listen. Roses blushing as they blow, And enticing men
  • SINGSPIEL
    A dramatic work, partly in dialogue and partly in song, of a kind popular in Germany in the latter part of the 18th century. It was often comic, had modern characters, and patterned its music on folk song with strictly subordinated accompaniment.
  • ENTICINGLY
    In an enticing manner; charmingly. "She . . . sings most enticingly." Addison.
  • ADDISON'S DISEASE
    A morbid condition causing a peculiar brownish discoloration of the skin, and thought, at one time, to be due to disease of the suprarenal capsules (two flat triangular bodies covering the upper part of the kidneys), but now known not
  • MANNERLINESS
    The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
  • MANNERED
    1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
  • MANNER
    manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner
  • ENTICER
    One who entices; one who incites or allures to evil. Burton.
  • SINGSONG
    1. Bad singing or poetry. 2. A drawling or monotonous tone, as of a badly executed song.
  • MANNERCHOR
    A German men's chorus or singing club.
  • MANNERLY
    Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.
  • AUTHENTICITY
    1. The quality of being authentic or of established authority for truth and correctness. 2. Genuineness; the quality of being genuine or not corrupted from the original. Note: In later writers, especially those on the evidences of Christianity,
  • CONVENTICLING
    Belonging or going to, or resembling, a conventicle. Conventicling schools . . . set up and taught secretly by fanatics. South.
  • MENTICULTURAL
    Of or pertaining to mental culture; serving to improve or strengthen the mind.
  • APPRENTICESHIP
    1. The service or condition of an apprentice; the state in which a person is gaining instruction in a trade or art, under legal agreement. 2. The time an apprentice is serving (sometimes seven years, as from the age of fourteen to twenty-one).
  • UNMANNERLY
    Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
  • IDENTICAL
    1. The same; the selfsame; the very same; not different; as, the identical person or thing. I can not remember a thing that happened a year ago, without a conviction . . . that I, the same identical person who now remember that event, did then
  • AUTHENTIC
    Vested with all due formalities, and legally attested. (more info) L. authenticus coming from the real author, of original or firsthand authority, from Gr. sons and perh. orig. from the p. pr. of to be, root as, and meaning the one it really is.
  • APPRENTICEHOOD
    Apprenticeship.
  • LENTICULARLY
    In the manner of a lens; with a curve.
  • LENTICULAR
    Resembling a lentil in size or form; having the form of a double-convex lens.
  • BICRESCENTIC
    Having the form of a double crescent.
  • DENTICULATION
    A diminutive tooth; a denticle. (more info) 1. The state of being set with small notches or teeth. Grew.
  • AUTHENTICS
    A collection of the Novels or New Constitutions of Justinian, by an anonymous author; -- so called on account of its authencity. Bouvier.
  • APPRENTICE
    A barrister, considered a learner of law till of sixteen years' standing, when he might be called to the rank of serjeant. Blackstone. (more info) of aprentif, fr. apprendare to learn, L. apprendere, equiv. to apprehendere, to take hold of , to
  • CRESCENTIC
    Crescent-shaped. "Crescentic lobes." R. Owen.

 

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