Word Meanings - EXTORTIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Extortionate. "Extortious cruelties." Bp. Hall -- Ex*tor"tious*ly, adv. Bacon.

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• BACON
  The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle , a beetle which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's
• BACONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction.
• EXTORTIOUS
  Extortionate. "Extortious cruelties." Bp. Hall -- Ex*tor"tious*ly, adv. Bacon.
• EXTORTIONATE
  Characterized by extortion; oppressive; hard.
• ASCITITIOUS
  Supplemental; not inherent or original; adscititious; additional; assumed. Homer has been reckoned an ascititious name. Pope.
• CONCUPISCENTIOUS
  Concupiscent.
• COMBUSTIOUS
  Inflammable. Shak.
• INFECTIOUSLY
  In an infectious manner. Shak.
• VITIOUS; VITIOUSLY; VITIOUSNESS
  See VICIOUSNESS
• FACTIOUS
  1. Given to faction; addicted to form parties and raise dissensions, in opposition to government or the common good; turbulent; seditious; prone to clamor against public measures or men; -- said of persons. Factious for the house of Lancaster.
• INIMICITIOUS
  Inimical; unfriendly. Sterne.
• TRALATITIOUS
  1. Passed along; handed down; transmitted. Among biblical critics a tralatitious interpretation is one received by expositor from expositor. W. Withington. 2. Metaphorical; figurative; not literal. Stackhouse.
• EMISSITIOUS
  Looking, or narrowly examining; prying. "Those emissitious eyes." Bp. Hall.
• INCAUTIOUS
  Not cautious; not circumspect; not attending to the circumstances on which safety and interest depend; heedless; careless; as, an incautious step; an incautious remark. You . . . incautious tread On fire with faithless embers overspread. Francis.
• CONTENTIOUS
  Contested; litigated; litigious; having power to decide controversy. Contentious jurisdiction , jurisdiction over matters in controversy between parties, in contradistinction to voluntary jurisdiction, or that exercised upon matters not opposed
• CAPTIOUSNESS
  Captious disposition or manner.
• AMBITIOUSNESS
  The quality of being ambitious; ambition; pretentiousness.
• ARREPTITIOUS
  Snatched away; seized or possessed, as a demoniac; raving; mad; crack-brained. Odd, arreptitious, frantic extravagances. Howell.
• COLLATITIOUS
  Brought together; contributed; done by contributions. Bailey.
• DIREPTITIOUSLY
  With plundering violence; by violent injustice. Strype.
• CONSCIENTIOUSNESS
  The quality of being conscientious; a scrupulous regard to the dictates of conscience.
• REPERTITIOUS
  Found; gained by finding.