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Word Meanings - HAIDUCK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Formerly, a mercenary foot soldier in Hungary, now, a halberdier of a Hungarian noble, or an attendant in German or

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  • SOLDIERLY
    Like or becoming a real soldier; brave; martial; heroic; honorable; soldierlike. "Soldierly discipline." Sir P. Sidney.
  • SOLDIERLIKE
    Like a soldier; soldierly.
  • FORMERLY
    In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
  • NOBLEWOMAN
    A female of noble rank; a peeress.
  • GERMANIZATION
    The act of Germanizing. M. Arnold.
  • NOBLE
    nobilis that can be or is known, well known, famous, highborn, noble, 1. Possessing eminence, elevation, dignity, etc.; above whatever is low, mean, degrading, or dishonorable; magnanimous; as, a noble nature or action; a noble heart. Statues,
  • MERCENARY
    1. Acting for reward; serving for pay; paid; hired; hireling; venal; as, mercenary soldiers. 2. Hence: Moved by considerations of pay or profit; greedy of gain; sordid; selfish. Shak. For God forbid I should my papers blot With mercenary lines,
  • NOBLENESS
    The quality or state of being noble; greatness; dignity; magnanimity; elevation of mind, character, or station; nobility; grandeur; stateliness. His purposes are full honesty, nobleness, and integrity. Jer. Taylor.
  • SOLDIERING
    1. The act of serving as a soldier; the state of being a soldier; the occupation of a soldier. 2. The act of feigning to work. See the Note under Soldier, v. i., 2.
  • GERMANISM
    1. An idiom of the German language. 2. A characteristic of the Germans; a characteristic German mode, doctrine, etc.; rationalism. J. W. Alexander.
  • GERMANE
    Literally, near akin; hence, closely allied; appropriate or fitting; relevant. The phrase would be more germane to the matter. Shak. must be germane. Barclay .
  • HUNGARIAN
    Of or pertaining to Hungary or to the people of Hungary. -- n.
  • ATTENDANT
    Depending on, or owing duty or service to; as, the widow attendant to the heir. Cowell. Attendant keys , the keys or scales most nearly related to, or having most in common with, the principal key; those, namely, of its fifth above, or dominant,
  • GERMAN
    Nearly related; closely akin. Wert thou a leopard, thou wert german to the lion. Shak. Brother german. See Brother german. -- Cousins german. See the Note under Cousin. (more info) full, own ;
  • NOBLEY
    1. The body of nobles; the nobility. Chaucer. 2. Noble birth; nobility; dignity. Chaucer.
  • GERMANIZE
    To make German, or like what is distinctively German; as, to Germanize a province, a language, a society.
  • HUNGARY
    A country in Central Europe, now a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Hungary water, a distilled "water," made from dilute alcohol aromatized with rosemary flowers, etc.
  • NOBLESS; NOBLESSE
    1. Dignity; greatness; noble birth or condition. Chaucer. Spenser. B. Jonson. 2. The nobility; persons of noble rank collectively, including males and females. Dryden.
  • SOLDIERSHIP
    Military qualities or state; martial skill; behavior becoming a soldier. Shak.
  • GERMANIC
    Pertaining to, or containing, germanium.
  • IGNOBLENESS
    State or quality of being ignoble.
  • UNNOBLE
    Ignoble. Shak.
  • ENNOBLE
    Etym: 1. To make noble; to elevate in degree, qualities, or excellence; to dignify. "Ennobling all that he touches." Trench. What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards Alas! not all the blood of all the Howards. Pope. 2. To raise to the rank
  • GEORGE NOBLE
    A gold noble of the time of Henry VIII. See Noble, n.
  • ENNOBLER
    One who ennobles.
  • DOGGERMAN
    A sailor belonging to a dogger.
  • BROTHER GERMAN
    A brother by both the father's and mother's side, in contradistinction to a uterine brother, one by the mother only. Bouvier.
  • INDO-GERMANIC
    1. Same as Aryan, and Indo-European. 2. Pertaining to or denoting the Teutonic family of languages as related to the Sanskrit, or derived from the ancient Aryan language.
  • UNSOLDIERED
    Not equipped like a soldier; unsoldierlike. J. Fletcher.

 

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