Word Meanings - MAKE-GAME - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An object of ridicule; a butt. Godwin.

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• OBJECTIVENESS
  Objectivity. Is there such a motion or objectiveness of external bodies, which produceth light Sir M. Hale
• RIDICULER
  One who ridicules.
• OBJECTIST
  One who adheres to, or is skilled in, the objective philosophy. Ed. Rev.
• OBJECT
  before, to oppose; ob + jacere to throw: cf. objecter. See 1. To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose. Of less account some knight thereto object, Whose loss so great and harmful can not prove. Fairfax. Some strong
• OBJECTIVATE
  To objectify.
• OBJECTLESS
  Having no object; purposeless.
• OBJECTIVITY
  The state, quality, or relation of being objective; character of the object or of the objective. The calm, the cheerfulness, the disinterested objectivity have disappeared . M. Arnold.
• OBJECTIZE
  To make an object of; to regard as an object; to place in the position of an object. In the latter, as objectized by the former, arise the emotions and affections. Coleridge.
• OBJECTION
  1. The act of objecting; as, to prevent agreement, or action, by objection. Johnson. 2. That which is, or may be, presented in opposition; an adverse reason or argument; a reason for objecting; obstacle; impediment; as, I have no objection
• OBJECTIVATION
  Converting into an object.
• OBJECTIFY
  To cause to become an object; to cause to assume the character of an object; to render objective. J. D. Morell.
• OBJECTOR
  One who objects; one who offers objections to a proposition or measure.
• OBJECTABLE
  Such as can be presented in opposition; that may be put forward as an objection.
• OBJECTIONABLE
  Liable to objection; likely to be objected to or disapproved of; offensive; as, objectionable words. -- Ob*jec"tion*a*bly, adv.
• RIDICULE
  1. An object of sport or laughter; a laughingstock; a laughing matter. was so miserably ignorant, that his deficiencies made him the ridicule of his contemporaries. Buckle. To the people . . . but a trifle, to the king but a ridicule. Foxe. 2.
• OBJECTIVELY
  In the manner or state of an object; as, a determinate idea objectively in the mind.
• OBJECTIVE
  Of or pertaining to an object; contained in, or having the nature or position of, an object; outward; external; extrinsic; -- an epithet applied to whatever ir exterior to the mind, or which is simply an object of thought or feeling, and opposed