Word Meanings - GAINSTAND - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To withstand; to resist. Durst . . . gainstand the force of so many enraged desires. Sir P. Sidney.
Related words: (words related to GAINSTAND)
- FORCE
To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak. - FORCEPS
The caudal forceps-shaped appendage of earwigs and some other insects. See Earwig. Dressing forceps. See under Dressing. (more info) 1. A pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies - FORCEFUL
Full of or processing force; exerting force; mighty. -- Force"ful*ly, adv. Against the steed he threw His forceful spear. Dryden. - FORCEMENT
The act of forcing; compulsion. It was imposed upon us by constraint; And will you count such forcement treachery J. Webster. - RESISTANT
Making resistance; resisting. -- n. - DURST
of Dare. See Dare, v. i. - RESIST
1. To stand against; to withstand; to obstruct. That mortal dint, Save He who reigns above, none can resist. Milton. 2. To strive against; to endeavor to counteract, defeat, or frustrate; to act in opposition to; to oppose. God resisteth the proud. - FORCED
Done or produced with force or great labor, or by extraordinary exertion; hurried; strained; produced by unnatural effort or pressure; as, a forced style; a forced laugh. Forced draught. See under Draught. -- Forced march , a march of one or more - RESISTLESS
1. Having no power to resist; making no opposition. Spenser. 2. Incapable of being resisted; irresistible. Masters' commands come with a power resistless To such as owe them absolute subjection. Milton. -- Re*sist"less*ly, adv. -- Re*sist"less*ness, - RESISTANCE
The quality of not yielding to force or external pressure; that power of a body which acts in opposition to the impulse or pressure of another, or which prevents the effect of another power; as, the resistance of the air to a body passing through - ENRAGEMENT
Act of enraging or state of being enraged; excitement. - RESISTING
Making resistance; opposing; as, a resisting medium. -- Re*sist"ing ly, adv. - FORCELESS
Having little or no force; feeble. These forceless flowers like sturdy trees support me. Shak. - RESISTANCE FRAME
A rheostat consisting of an open frame on which are stretched spirals of wire. Being freely exposed to the air, they radiate heat rapidly. - RESISTIBILITY
1. The quality of being resistible; resistibleness. 2. The quality of being resistant; resitstance. The name "body" being the complex idea of extension and resistibility together in the same subject. Locke. - WITHSTAND
To stand against; to oppose; to resist, either with physical or moral force; as, to withstand an attack of troops; to withstand eloquence or arguments. Piers Plowman. I withstood him to the face. Gal. ii. 11. Some village Hampden, that, - RESISTER
One who resists. - RESISTIVE
Serving to resist. B. Jonsosn. - GAINSTAND
To withstand; to resist. Durst . . . gainstand the force of so many enraged desires. Sir P. Sidney. - RESISTIBLE
Capable of being resisted; as, a resistible force. Sir M. Hale. -- Re*sist"i*ble*ness, n. -- Re*sist"i*bly, adv. - UNRESISTANCE
Nonresistance; passive submission; irresistance. Bp. Hall. - REINFORCEMENT
See REëNFORCEMENT - DEFORCEOR
See DEFORCIANT - AGAINSTAND
To withstand. - DEFORCE
To keep from the rightful owner; to withhold wrongfully the possession of, as of lands or a freehold. To resist the execution of the law; to oppose by force, as an officer in the execution of his duty. Burrill. - REENFORCE
To strengthen with new force, assistance, material, or support; as, to reënforce an argument; to reënforce a garment; especially, to strengthen with additional troops, as an army or a fort, or with additional ships, as a fleet. - UNRESISTED
1. Not resisted; unopposed. Bentley. 2. Resistless; as, unresisted fate. Pope. - IRRESISTIBLENESS
Quality of being irrestible. - OVERFORCE
Excessive force; violence. - AFFORCE
To reënforce; to strengthen. Hallam. - IRRESISTIBLE
That can not be successfully resisted or opposed; superior to opposition; resistless; overpowering; as, an irresistible attraction. An irresistible law of our nature impels us to seek happiness. J. M. Mason. - REENFORCEMENT
1. The act of reënforcing, or the state of being reënforced. 2. That which reënforces; additional force; especially, additional troops or force to augment the strength of any army, or ships to strengthen a navy or fleet. - ENFORCED
Compelled; forced; not voluntary. "Enforced wrong." "Enforced smiles." Shak. -- En*for"ced*ly, adv. Shak. - REENFORCED CONCRETE
Concrete having within its mass a system of strengthening iron or steel supports. = Ferro-concrete.