Word Meanings - GODDESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. A female god; a divinity, or deity, of the female sex. When the daughter of Jupiter presented herself among a crowd of goddesses, she was distinguished by her graceful stature and superior beauty. Addison. 2. A woman of superior charms
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1. A female god; a divinity, or deity, of the female sex. When the daughter of Jupiter presented herself among a crowd of goddesses, she was distinguished by her graceful stature and superior beauty. Addison. 2. A woman of superior charms or excellence.
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- FEMALE
A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant. (more info) 1. An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or - PRESENT
one, in sight or at hand, p. p. of praeesse to be before; prae before 1. Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent. These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. John xiv. 25. - PRESENTIVE
Bringing a conception or notion directly before the mind; presenting an object to the memory of imagination; -- distinguished from symbolic. How greatly the word "will" is felt to have lost presentive power in the last three centuries. Earle. -- - PRESENTANEOUS
Ready; quick; immediate in effect; as, presentaneous poison. Harvey. - CROWD
1. To push, to press, to shove. Chaucer. 2. To press or drive together; to mass together. "Crowd us and crush us." Shak. 3. To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity. The balconies and verandas - GRACEFUL
Displaying grace or beauty in form or action; elegant; easy; agreeable in appearance; as, a graceful walk, deportment, speaker, air, act, speech. High o'er the rest in arms the graceful Turnus rode. Dryden. -- Grace"ful*ly, adv. Grace"ful*ness, n. - PRESENTLY
1. At present; at this time; now. The towns and forts you presently have. Sir P. Sidney. 2. At once; without delay; forthwith; also, less definitely, soon; shortly; before long; after a little while; by and by. Shak. And presently the fig tree - WOMANLY
Becoming a woman; feminine; as, womanly behavior. Arbuthnot. A blushing, womanly discovering grace. Donne. - DAUGHTERLY
Becoming a daughter; filial. Sir Thomas liked her natural and dear daughterly affection towards him. Cavendish. - PRESENTER
One who presents. - WOMANHEAD; WOMANHEDE
Womanhood. Chaucer. - DISTINGUISH
di- = dis- + stinguere to quench, extinguish; prob. orig., to prick, and so akin to G. stechen, E. stick, and perh. sting. Cf. 1. Not set apart from others by visible marks; to make distinctive or discernible by exhibiting differences; to mark - JUPITER
The supreme deity, king of gods and men, and reputed to be the son of Saturn and Rhea; Jove. He corresponds to the Greek Zeus. - STATURE
The natural height of an animal body; -- generally used of the human body. Foreign men of mighty stature came. Dryden. (more info) originally, an upright posture, hence, height or size of the body, - DISTINGUISHABLE
1. Capable of being distinguished; separable; divisible; discernible; capable of recognition; as, a tree at a distance is distinguishable from a shrub. A simple idea being in itself uncompounded . . . is not distinguishable into different ideas. - PRESENTIMENT
Previous sentiment, conception, or opinion; previous apprehension; especially, an antecedent impression or conviction of something unpleasant, distressing, or calamitous, about to happen; anticipation of evil; foreboding. - DISTINGUISHMENT
Observation of difference; distinction. Graunt. - SUPERIORLY
In a superior position or manner. - DAUGHTERLINESS
The state of a daughter, or the conduct becoming a daughter. - PRESENTIATE
To make present. - CONTRADISTINGUISH
To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke. - AIRWOMAN
A woman who ascends or flies in an aircraft. - INDISTINGUISHABLE
Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form - ENGLISHWOMAN
Fem. of Englishman. Shak. - UNWOMAN
To deprive of the qualities of a woman; to unsex. R. Browning. - NONPRESENTATION
Neglect or failure to present; state of not being presented. - REPRESENTABLE
Capable of being represented. - NOBLEWOMAN
A female of noble rank; a peeress. - TOTIPRESENT
Omnipresence. A. Tucker. - OMNIPRESENTIAL
Implying universal presence. South. - REPRESENTANT
Appearing or acting for another; representing. - BONDSWOMAN
See BONDWOMAN - IRREPRESENTABLE
Not capable of being represented or portrayed.