Word Meanings - HISTORIAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. A writer of history; a chronicler; an annalist. Even the historian takes great liberties with facts. Sir J. Reynolds. 2. One versed or well informed in history. Great captains should be good historians. South.
Related words: (words related to HISTORIAN)
- INFORMITY
Want of regular form; shapelessness. - SOUTHSAY
See SOOTHSAY - SOUTHWESTERLY
To ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind. - VERSET
A verse. Milton. - INFORMOUS
Of irregular form; shapeless. Sir T. Browne. - SHOULDER
The joint, or the region of the joint, by which the fore limb is connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle; the projection formed by the bones and muscles about that joint. 2. The flesh and muscles connected with the shoulder joint; the - SHOULDER-SHOTTEN
Sprained in the shoulder, as a horse. Shak. - VERSEMAN
See PRIOR - SOUTHERNLINESS
Southerliness. - GREAT-HEARTED
1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble. - GREAT-GRANDFATHER
The father of one's grandfather or grandmother. - VERSABLENESS
Versability. - SOUTHREN
Southern. "I am a Southren man." Chaucer. - ANNALIST
A writer of annals. The monks . . . were the only annalists in those ages. Hume. - VERS DE SOCIETE
See SOCIETY - VERST
A Russian measure of length containing 3,500 English feet. - GREAT-GRANDSON
A son of one's grandson or granddaughter. - SHOULDERED
Having shoulders; -- used in composition; as, a broad- shouldered man. "He was short-shouldered." Chaucer. - GREAT-HEARTEDNESS
The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity. - WRITER
1. One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk. They that handle the pen of the writer. Judg. v. 14. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. Ps. xlv. 1. 2. One who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author; as, a writer - CONTROVERSER
A disputant. - DIVERSIFORM
Of a different form; of varied forms. - REVERSED
Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree. Reversed positive or negative , a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. Abney. (more info) 1. Turned side for side, - UNIVERSITY
universitas all together, the whole, the universe, a number of persons associated into one body, a society, corporation, fr. 1. The universe; the whole. Dr. H. More. 2. An association, society, guild, or corporation, esp. one capable of having - AVERSENESS
The quality of being averse; opposition of mind; unwillingness. - OVERSHOT
From Overshoot, v. t. Overshot wheel, a vertical water wheel, the circumference of which is covered with cavities or buckets, and which is turned by water which shoots over the top of it, filling the buckets on the farther side and acting chiefly - WELL-INFORMED
Correctly informed; provided with information; well furnished with authentic knowledge; intelligent. - INGREAT
To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby. - ESTOVERS
Necessaries or supples; an allowance to a person out of an estate or other thing for support; as of wood to a tenant for life, etc., of sustenance to a man confined for felony of his estate, or alimony to a woman divorced out of her husband's - REVERSION
The returning of an esttate to the grantor or his heirs, by operation of law, after the grant has terminated; hence, the residue of an estate left in the proprietor or owner thereof, to take effect in possession, by operation of law, after - DIVERS
directions, different, p. p. of divertere. See Divert, and cf. 1. Different in kind or species; diverse. Every sect of them hath a divers posture. Bacon. Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds. Deut. xxii. 9. 2. Several; sundry; various; - CONTROVERSAL
1. Turning or looking opposite ways. The temple of Janus, with his two controversal faces. Milton. 2. Controversal. Boyle. - TERGIVERSATOR
One who tergiversates; one who suffles, or practices evasion. - HUMP-SHOULDERED
Having high, hunched shoulders. Hawthorne.