Word Meanings - FLOORER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Anything that floors or upsets a person, as a blow that knocks him down; a conclusive answer or retort; a task that exceeds one's abilities.
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- CONCLUSIVELY
In the way of conclusion; decisively; positively. Burke. - CONCLUSIVENESS
The quality of being conclusive; decisiveness. - PERSONNEL
The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel. - PERSONIFICATION
A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying; - KNOCKSTONE
A block upon which ore is broken up. - PERSONIZE
To personify. Milton has personized them. J. Richardson. - PERSONATE
To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. In fable, hymn, or song so personating Their gods ridiculous. Milton. - ANSWER
1. To speak in defense against; to reply to in defense; as, to answer a charge; to answer an accusation. 2. To speak or write in return to, as in return to a call or question, or to a speech, declaration, argument, or the like; to reply to ; to - PERSONATOR
One who personates. "The personators of these actions." B. Jonson. - RETORTIVE
Containing retort. - ANYTHINGARIAN
One who holds to no particular creed or dogma. - PERSONAL
Denoting person; as, a personal pronoun. Personal action , a suit or action by which a man claims a debt or personal duty, or damages in lieu of it; or wherein he claims satisfaction in damages for an injury to his person or property, - PERSONIFY
1. To regard, treat, or represent as a person; to represent as a rational being. The poets take the liberty of personifying inanimate things. Chesterfield. 2. To be the embodiment or personification of; to impersonate; as, he personifies the law. - PERSONIFIER
One who personifies. - RETORTION
Retaliation. Wharton. (more info) 1. Act of retorting or throwing back; reflection or turning back. It was, however, necessary to possess some single term expressive of this intellectual retortion. Sir W. Hamilton. - PERSONA
See 8 - PERSONABLE
1. Having a well-formed body, or person; graceful; comely; of good appearance; presentable; as, a personable man or woman. Wise, warlike, personable, courteous, and kind. Spenser. The king, . . . so visited with sickness, was not personable. E. - PERSONALLY
1. In a personal manner; by bodily presence; in person; not by representative or substitute; as, to deliver a letter personally. He, being cited, personally came not. Grafton. 2. With respect to an individual; as regards the person; individually; - ANSWERLESS
Having no answer, or impossible to be answered. Byron. - ANSWERABLE
1. Obliged to answer; liable to be called to account; liable to pay, indemnify, or make good; accountable; amenable; responsible; as, an agent is answerable to his principal; to be answerable for a debt, or for damages. Will any man argue that - UNIPERSONAL
Used in only one person, especially only in the third person, as some verbs; impersonal. (more info) 1. Existing as one, and only one, person; as, a unipersonal God. - UNIPERSONALIST
One who believes that the Deity is unipersonal. - TRIPERSONALITY
The state of existing as three persons in one Godhead; trinity. - IMPERSONATION; IMPERSONIFICATION
The act of impersonating; personification; investment with personality; representation in a personal form. - UNANSWERABLE
Not answerable; irrefutable; conclusive; decisive; as, he have an unanswerable argument. -- Un*an"swer*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*an"swer*a*bly, adv. - TRIPERSONAL
Consisting of three persons. Milton. - UNCONCLUSIVE
Inconclusive. - MONOPERSONAL
Having but one person, or form of existence. - IMPERSONATOR
One who impersonates; an actor; a mimic.