Word Meanings - FLAGITATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To importune; to demand fiercely or with passion. Carcyle.

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• DEMANDRESS
  A woman who demands.
• IMPORTUNELY
  In an importune manner.
• PASSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to passion or the passions; exciting, influenced by, or ministering to, the passions. -- n.
• IMPORTUNE
  derivative from the root of portus harbor, importunus therefore orig. 1. Inopportune; unseasonable. 2. Troublesome; vexatious; persistent; urgent; hence, vexatious on account of untimely urgency or perinacious solicitation. And their importune
• PASSIONLESS
  Void of passion; without anger or emotion; not easily excited; calm. "Self-contained and passionless." Tennyson.
• IMPORTUNER
  One who importunes.
• DEMAND
  To call into court; to summon. Burrill. (more info) L. demandare to give in charge, intrust; de- + mandare to commit to 1. To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for
• PASSIONATE
  1. Capable or susceptible of passion, or of different passions; easily moved, excited or agitated; specifically, easily moved to anger; irascible; quick-tempered; as, a passionate nature. Homer's Achilles is haughty and passionate. Prior.
• DEMANDER
  One who demands.
• PASSIONARY
  A book in which are described the sufferings of saints and martyrs. T. Warton.
• PASSIONTIDE
  The last fortnight of Lent.
• DEMANDANT
  One who demands; the plaintiff in a real action; any plaintiff.
• PASSIONATELY
  1. In a passionate manner; with strong feeling; ardently. Sorrow expresses itself . . . loudly and passionately. South. 2. Angrily; irascibly. Locke.
• PASSIONATENESS
  The state or quality of being passionate.
• PASSION
  1. A suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or distress ; specifically, the suffering of Christ between the time of the last supper and his death, esp. in the garden upon the cross. "The passions of this time." Wyclif
• DEMANDABLE
  That may be demanded or claimed. "All sums demandable." Bacon.
• PASSIONIST
  A member of a religious order founded in Italy in 1737, and introduced into the United States in 1852. The members of the order unite the austerities of the Trappists with the activity and zeal of the Jesuits and Lazarists. Called also Barefooted
• COMPASSIONATELY
  In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
• REDEMAND
  To demand back; to demand again.
• OUTPASSION
  To exceed in passion.
• INCOMPASSIONATE
  Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n.
• IMPASSIONABLE
  Excitable; susceptible of strong emotion.
• IMPASSIONATE
  Strongly affected. Smart.
• EMPASSION
  To move with passion; to affect strongly. See Impassion. Those sights empassion me full near. Spenser.
• IMPASSION
  To move or affect strongly with passion. Chapman.
• DISPASSIONED
  Free from passion; dispassionate. "Dispassioned men." Donne.
• EMPASSIONATE
  Strongly affected. The Briton Prince was sore empassionate. Spenser.
• UNPASSIONATE
  Not passionate; dispassionate. -- Un*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv.
• REIMPORTUNE
  To importune again.
• COMPASSIONATE
  1. Having a temper or disposition to pity; sympathetic; merciful. There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate. South. 2. Complaining; inviting pity; pitiable. Shak. Syn. -- Sympathizing; tender;