Word Meanings - HEBRAISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A Hebrew idiom or custom; a peculiar expression or manner of speaking in the Hebrew language. Addison. 2. The type of character of the Hebrews. The governing idea of Hebraism is strictness of conscience. M. Arnold.

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• PECULIARIZE
  To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession. Dr. John Smith.
• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• CHARACTER
  1. A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol. It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye. Holder. 2. Style of writing or printing; handwriting;
• CHARACTERISM
  A distinction of character; a characteristic. Bp. Hall.
• PECULIARNESS
  The quality or state of being peculiar; peculiarity. Mede.
• CUSTOM
  Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent; usage. See Usage, and Prescription. Note: Usage is a fact. Custom is a law. There can be no custom without usage, though there may be usage without
• GOVERNORSHIP
  The office of a governor.
• STRICTNESS
  Quality or state of being strict.
• IDIOMORPHOUS
  Apperaing in distinct crystals; -- said of the mineral constituents of a rock. (more info) 1. Having a form of its own.
• GOVERNABLENESS
  The quality of being governable; manageableness.
• CUSTOMARY
  Holding or held by custom; as, customary tenants; customary service or estate. (more info) 1. Agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual. Even now I met him With customary compliment.
• HEBRAISM
  1. A Hebrew idiom or custom; a peculiar expression or manner of speaking in the Hebrew language. Addison. 2. The type of character of the Hebrews. The governing idea of Hebraism is strictness of conscience. M. Arnold.
• IDIOM
  1. The syntactical or structural form peculiar to any language; the genius or cast of a language. Idiom may be employed loosely and figuratively as a synonym of language or dialect, but in its proper sense it signifies the totality of the general
• CUSTOMABLE
  1. Customary. Sir T. More. 2. Subject to the payment of customs; dutiable.
• PECULIARLY
  In a peculiar manner; particulary; in a rare and striking degree; unusually.
• CONSCIENCE
  consciens, p.pr. of conscire to know, to be conscious; con- + scire 1. Knowledge of one's own thoughts or actions; consciousness. The sweetest cordial we receive, at last, Is conscience of our virtuous actions past. Denham. 2. The faculty, power,
• GOVERNANCE
  Exercise of authority; control; government; arrangement. Chaucer. J. H. Newman.
• SPEAKERSHIP
  The office of speaker; as, the speakership of the House of Representatives.
• CUSTOMHOUSE
  The building where customs and duties are paid, and where vessels are entered or cleared. Customhouse broker, an agent who acts for merchants in the business of entering and clearing goods and vessels.
• IDIOMORPHIC
  Idiomorphous.
• OVERLANGUAGED
  Employing too many words; diffuse. Lowell.
• ACCUSTOMARILY
  Customarily.
• MISGOVERNED
  Ill governed, as a people; ill directed. "Rude, misgoverned hands." Shak.
• ACCUSTOMEDNESS
  Habituation. Accustomedness to sin hardens the heart. Bp. Pearce.
• UNGOVERNABLE
  Not governable; not capable of being governed, ruled, or restrained; licentious; wild; unbridled; as, ungovernable passions. -- Un*gov"ern*a*bly, adv. Goldsmith.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• MISGOVERNMENT
  Bad government; want of government. Shak.
• BESPEAKER
  One who bespeaks.
• OUTSPEAK
  1. To exceed in speaking. 2. To speak openly or boldly. T. Campbell. 3. To express more than. Shak.
• DISACCUSTOM
  To destroy the force of habit in; to wean from a custom. Johnson.
• UNBESPEAK
  To unsay; hence, to annul or cancel. Pepys.
• MISCHARACTERIZE
  To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to. They totally mischaracterize the action. Eton.