Word Meanings - MAJESTICAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Majestic. Cowley. An older architecture, greater, cunninger, more majestical. M. Arnold. -- Ma*jes"tic*al*ly, adv. -- Ma*jes"tic*al*ness, n.
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- MAJESTICNESS
The quality or state of being majestic. Oldenburg. - MAJESTICAL
Majestic. Cowley. An older architecture, greater, cunninger, more majestical. M. Arnold. -- Ma*jes"tic*al*ly, adv. -- Ma*jes"tic*al*ness, n. - ARCHITECTURE
1. The art or science of building; especially, the art of building houses, churches, bridges, and other structures, for the purposes of civil life; -- often called civil architecture. Many other architectures besides Gothic. Ruskin. 3. - MAJESTIC
Possessing or exhibiting majesty; of august dignity, stateliness, or imposing grandeur; lofty; noble; grand. "The majestic world." Shak. "Tethys'grave majestic pace." Milton. The least portions must be of the epic kind; all must be grave, majestic, - SCOLDER
1. One who scolds. The oyster catcher; -- so called from its shrill cries. The old squaw. - MOLDER; MOULDER
One who, or that which, molds or forms into shape; specifically , one skilled in the art of making molds for castings. - COPYHOLDER
One possessed of land in copyhold. A device for holding copy for a compositor. One who reads copy to a proof reader. - HIGH-HOLDER
The flicker; -- called also high-hole. - BEHOLDER
One who beholds; a spectator. - OFFICEHOLDER
An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman. - GEORGIAN ARCHITECTURE
British or British colonial architecture of the period of the four Georges, especially that of the period before 1800. - CANDLEHOLDER
One who, or that which, holds a candle; also, one who assists another, but is otherwise not of importance. Shak. - UNFOLDER
One who, or that which, unfolds. - BOOKHOLDER
1. A prompter at a theater. Beau & Fl. 2. A support for a book, holding it open, while one reads or copies from it. - HOLDER-FORTH
One who speaks in public; an haranguer; a preacher. Addison. - BONDHOLDER
A person who holds the bonds of a public or private corporation for the payment of money at a certain time. - SMOLDERINGNESS; SMOULDERINGNESS
The state of smoldering. - FOLDER
One who, or that which, folds; esp., a flat, knifelike instrument used for folding paper. - HOLDER
One who is employed in the hold of a vessel. - INNHOLDER
One who keeps an inn. - WOOLDER
A stick used to tighten the rope in woolding. - UNSOLDER
To separate or disunite, as what has been soldered; hence, to divide; to sunder. Tennyson. - SMOLDERING; SMOULDERING
Being in a state of suppressed activity; quiet but not dead. Some evil chance Will make the smoldering scandal break and blaze. Tennyson.