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Word Meanings - EXQUISITELY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In an exquisite manner or degree; as, lace exquisitely wrought. To a sensitive observer there was something exquisitely painful in it. Hawthorne.

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  • SENSITIVE
    1. Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul. 2. Having quick and acute sensibility, either to the action of external objects, or to impressions upon the
  • THEREAGAIN
    In opposition; against one's course. If that him list to stand thereagain. Chaucer.
  • THERETO
    1. To that or this. Chaucer. 2. Besides; moreover. Spenser. Her mouth full small, and thereto soft and red. Chaucer.
  • THEREBEFORE; THEREBIFORN
    Before that time; beforehand. Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer.
  • THEREOUT
    1. Out of that or this. He shall take thereout his handful of the flour. Lev. ii. 2. 2. On the outside; out of doors. Chaucer.
  • THEREUNDER
    Under that or this.
  • THEREAFTER
    1. After that; afterward. 2. According to that; accordingly. I deny not but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison,
  • THERE-ANENT
    Concerning that.
  • PAINFUL
    1. Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing Addison. 2. Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort; as a painful service; a painful march. 3. Painstaking;
  • MANNERIST
    One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
  • EXQUISITE
    1. Carefully selected or sought out; hence, of distinguishing and surpassing quality; exceedingly nice; delightfully excellent; giving rare satisfaction; as, exquisite workmanship. Plate of rare device, and jewels Of reach and exquisite form. Shak.
  • WROUGHT
    imp. & p. p. of Work. Alas that I was wrought ! Chaucer.
  • 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
  • THEREOF
    Of that or this. In the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die. Gen. ii.
  • THEREFOR
    For that, or this; for it. With certain officers ordained therefore. Chaucer.
  • EXQUISITELY
    In an exquisite manner or degree; as, lace exquisitely wrought. To a sensitive observer there was something exquisitely painful in it. Hawthorne.
  • THEREFROM
    From this or that. Turn not aside therefrom to the right hand or to the left. John. xxiii. 6.
  • THEREUNTO
    Unto that or this; thereto; besides. Shak.
  • OBSERVER
    1. One who observes, or pays attention to, anything; especially, one engaged in, or trained to habits of, close and exact observation; as, an astronomical observer. The observed of all observers. Shak. Careful observers may foretell the hour, By
  • THEREINTO
    Into that or this, or into that place. Bacon. Let not them . . . enter thereinto. Luke xxi. 21.
  • UNMOTHERED
    Deprived of a mother; motherless.
  • HIGH-WROUGHT
    1. Wrought with fine art or skill; elaborate. Pope. 2. Worked up, or swollen, to a high degree; as, a highwrought passion. "A high-wrought flood." Shak.
  • UNMANNERLY
    Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
  • ETHEREALITY
    The state of being ethereal; etherealness. Something of that ethereality of thought and manner which belonged to Wordsworth's earlier lyrics. J. C. Shairp.
  • TAXGATHERER
    One who collects taxes or revenues. -- Tax"gath`er*ing, n.
  • ETHEREALLY
    In an ethereal manner.
  • PINFEATHERED
    Having part, or all, of the feathers imperfectly developed.
  • DINOTHERE; DINOTHERIUM
    A large extinct proboscidean mammal from the miocene beds of Europe and Asia. It is remarkable fora pair of tusks directed downward from the decurved apex of the lower jaw.
  • ETHEREAL
    Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, ether; as, ethereal salts. Ethereal oil. See Essential oil, under Essential. -- Ethereal oil of wine , a heavy, yellow, oily liquid consisting essentially of etherin, etherol, and ethyl sulphate. It
  • FEATHERED
    Having a fringe of feathers, as the legs of certian birds; or of hairs, as the legs of a setter dog. (more info) 1. Clothed, covered, or fitted with feathers or wings; as, a feathered animal; a feathered arrow. Rise from the ground like feathered
  • GATHERER
    An attachment for making gathers in the cloth. (more info) 1. One who gathers or collects.
  • LATHEREEVE; LATHREEVE
    Formerly, the head officer of a lathe. See 1st Lathe.

 

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