Word Meanings - EVANGELISTARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A selection of passages from the Gospels, as a lesson in divine service. Porson.

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• DIVINER
  1. One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means. The diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain. Zech. x. 2. 2. A conjecture; a guesser; one
• SERVICE
  The act of bringing to notice, either actually or constructively, in such manner as is prescribed by law; as, the service of a subpoena or an attachment. (more info) 1. The act of serving; the occupation of a servant; the performance of labor for
• DIVINELY
  1. In a divine or godlike manner; holily; admirably or excellently in a supreme degree. Most divinely fair. Tennyson. 2. By the agency or influence of God. Divinely set apart . . . to be a preacher of righteousness. Macaulay.
• SERVICEABLE
  1. Doing service; promoting happiness, interest, advantage, or any good; useful to any end; adapted to any good end use; beneficial; advantageous. "Serviceable to religion and learning". Atterbury. "Serviceable tools." Macaulay. I know thee well,
• SERVICE; SERVICE
  A name given to several trees and shrubs of the genus Pyrus, as Pyrus domestica and P. torminalis of Europe, the various species of mountain ash or rowan tree, and the American shad bush (see Shad bush, under Shad). They have clusters of small,
• SERVICEAGE
  Servitude. Fairfax.
• DIVINERESS
  A woman who divines. Dryden.
• SELECTION
  The act of selecting, or the state of being selected; choice, by preference. 2. That which is selected; a collection of things chosen; as, a choice selection of books. Natural selection. See under Natural.
• LESSON
  1. Anything read or recited to a teacher by a pupil or learner; something, as a portion of a book, assigned to a pupil to be studied or learned at one time. 2. That which is learned or taught by an express effort; instruction derived from precept,
• DIVINENESS
  The quality of being divine; superhuman or supreme excellence. Shak.
• DIVINEMENT
  Divination.
• SERVICE UNIFORM
  The uniform prescribed in regulations for active or routine service, in distinction from dress, full dress, etc. In the United States army it is of olive-drab woolen or khaki-colored cotton, with all metal attachments of dull-finish bronze, with
• SERVICE CAP; SERVICE HAT
  A cap or hat worn by officers or enlisted men when full-dress uniform, or dress uniform, is not worn. In the United States army the service cap is round, about 3½ inches high, flat-topped, with a visor. The service hat is of soft felt of khaki
• DIVINE
  divin, L. divinus divine, divinely inspired, fr. divus, dius, 1. Of or belonging to God; as, divine perfections; the divine will. "The immensity of the divine nature." Paley. 2. Proceeding from God; as, divine judgments. "Divine protection." Bacon.
• PUBLIC-SERVICE CORPORATION; QUASI-PUBLIC CORPORATION
  A corporation, such as a railroad company, lighting company, water company, etc., organized or chartered to follow a public calling or to render services more or less essential to the general public convenience or safety.
• BOND SERVICE
  The condition of a bond servant; sevice without wages; slavery. Their children . . . upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bond service. 1 Kings ix. 21.
• UNSERVICE
  Neglect of duty; idleness; indolence. Massinger.
• SUPERSERVICEABLE
  Overofficious; doing more than is required or desired. "A superserviceable, finical rogue." Shak.
• KNIGHT SERVICE
  A tenure of lands held by knights on condition of performing military service. See Chivalry, n., 4.
• DISSERVICEABLE
  Calculated to do disservice or harm; not serviceable; injurious; harmful; unserviceable. Shaftesbury. -- Dis*serv"ice*a*ble*ness, n. Norris. -- Dis*serv"ice*a*bly, adv.
• KNIGHT SERVICE; KNIGHT'S SERVICE
  1. The military service by rendering which a knight held his lands; also, the tenure of lands held on condition of performing military service. By far the greater part of England is held of the king by knight's service. . . . In
• EYESERVICE
  Service performed only under inspection, or the eye of an employer. Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers. Col. iii. 22.
• CIVIL SERVICE REFORM
  The substitution of business principles and methods for political methods in the conduct of the civil service. esp. the merit system instead of the spoils system in making appointments to office.
• SUBDIVINE
  Partaking of divinity; divine in a partial or lower degree. Bp. Hall.