Word Meanings - EXOTERICS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The public lectures or published writings of Aristotle. See Esoterics.

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• PUBLIC-SPIRITED
  1. Having, or exercising, a disposition to advance the interest of the community or public; as, public-spirited men. 2. Dictated by a regard to public good; as, a public-spirited project or measure. Addison. -- Pub"lic-spir`it*ed*ly,
• PUBLISH
  Etym: 1. To make public; to make known to mankind, or to people in general; to divulge, as a private transaction; to promulgate or proclaim, as a law or an edict. Published was the bounty of her name. Chaucer. The unwearied sun, from day to day,
• PUBLICLY
  1. With exposure to popular view or notice; without concealment; openly; as, property publicly offered for sale; an opinion publicly avowed; a declaration publicly made. 2. In the name of the community. Addison.
• PUBLIC SCHOOL
  In Great Britain, any of various schools maintained by the community, wholly or partly under public control, or maintained largely by endowment and not carried on chiefly for profit; specif., and commonly, any of various select and usually
• PUBLISHER
  One who publishes; as, a publisher of a book or magazine. For love of you, not hate unto my friend, Hath made me publisher of this pretense. Shak.
• 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.
• PUBLICNESS
  1. The quality or state of being public, or open to the view or notice of people at large; publicity; notoriety; as, the publicness of a sale. 2. The quality or state of belonging to the community; as, the publicness of property. Boyle.
• PUBLICAN
  A farmer of the taxes and public revenues; hence, a collector of toll or tribute. The inferior officers of this class were often oppressive in their exactions, and were regarded with great detestation. As Jesus at meat . . . many publicans
• PUBLICATION
  1. The act of publishing or making known; notification to the people at large, either by words, writing, or printing; proclamation; divulgation; promulgation; as, the publication of the law at Mount Sinai; the publication of the gospel;
• PUBLICITY
  The quality or state of being public, or open to the knowledge of a community; notoriety; publicness.
• PUBLIC-MINDED
  Public-spirited. -- Pub"lic-mind`ed*ness, n.
• ESOTERICS
  Mysterious or hidden doctrines; secret science.
• PUBLIC
  1. Of or pertaining to the people; belonging to the people; relating to, or affecting, a nation, state, or community; -- opposed to private; as, the public treasury. To the public good Private respects must yield. Milton. He touched the dead
• PUBLIC-HEARTED
  Public-spirited.
• PUBLISHABLE
  Capable of being published; suitable for publication.
• ARISTOTLE'S LANTERN
  The five united jaws and accessory ossicles of certain sea urchins.
• PUBLICITY PAMPHLET
  A pamphlet which, in some States of the United States having the initiative or referendum, is mailed to the voters to inform them as to the nature of a measure submitted by the initiative or referendum. The pamphlet contains a copy of the proposed
• PUBLISHMENT
  1. The act or process of making publicly known; publication. 2. A public notice of intended marriage, required by the laws of some States.
• LECTURESHIP
  The office of a lecturer.
• PUBLICIST
  A writer on the laws of nature and nations; one who is versed in the science of public right, the principles of government, etc. The Whig leaders, however, were much more desirous to get rid of Episcopacy than to prove themselves consummate
• REPUBLISH
  To publish anew; specifically, to publish in one country (a work first published in another); also, to revive by re Subsecquent to the purchase or contract, the devisor republished his will. Blackstone.
• REPUBLICANIZE
  To change, as a state, into a republic; to republican principles; as, France was republicanized; to republicanize the rising generation. D. Ramsay.
• REPUBLICATE
  To make public again; to republish.
• REPUBLICATION
  A second publication, or a new publication of something before published, as of a former will, of a volume already published, or the like; specifically, the publication in one country of a work first issued in another; a reprint. If there be many
• REPUBLICANISM
  1. A republican form or system of government; the principles or theory of republican government. 2. Attachment to, or political sympathy for, a republican form of government. Burke. 3. The principles and policy of the Republican party, so called