Word Meanings - MAMMONITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One devoted to the acquisition of wealth or the service of Mammon. C. Kingsley.

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• DEVOTIONALLY
  In a devotional manner; toward devotion.
• MAMMONISH
  Actuated or prompted by a devotion to money getting or the service of Mammon. Carlyle.
• MAMMONIST
  A mammonite.
• ACQUISITION
  1. The act or process of acquiring. The acquisition or loss of a province. Macaulay. 2. The thing acquired or gained; an acquirement; a gain; as, learning is an acquisition. Syn. -- See Acquirement.
• DEVOTO
  A devotee. Dr. J. Scott.
• DEVOTE
  1. To appropriate by vow; to set apart or dedicate by a solemn act; to consecrate; also, to consign over; to doom; to evil; to devote one to destruction; the city was devoted to the flames. No devoted thing that a man shall devote unto the Lord
• WEALTHINESS
  The quality or state of being wealthy, or rich; richness; opulence.
• SERVICE
  The act of bringing to notice, either actually or constructively, in such manner as is prescribed by law; as, the service of a subpoena or an attachment. (more info) 1. The act of serving; the occupation of a servant; the performance of labor for
• WEALTHFUL
  Full of wealth; wealthy; prosperous. Sir T. More. -- Wealth"ful*ly, adv.
• DEVOTED
  Consecrated to a purpose; strongly attached; zealous; devout; as, a devoted admirer. -- De*vot"ed*ly, adv. -- De*vot"ed*ness, n.
• DEVOTIONAL
  Pertaining to, suited to, or used in, devotion; as, a devotional posture; devotional exercises; a devotional frame of mind.
• SERVICEABLE
  1. Doing service; promoting happiness, interest, advantage, or any good; useful to any end; adapted to any good end use; beneficial; advantageous. "Serviceable to religion and learning". Atterbury. "Serviceable tools." Macaulay. I know thee well,
• SERVICE; SERVICE
  A name given to several trees and shrubs of the genus Pyrus, as Pyrus domestica and P. torminalis of Europe, the various species of mountain ash or rowan tree, and the American shad bush (see Shad bush, under Shad). They have clusters of small,
• DEVOTEMENT
  The state of being devoted, or set apart by a vow. Bp. Hurd.
• MAMMON
  Riches; wealth; the god of riches; riches, personified. Ye can not serve God and Mammon. Matt. vi. 24.
• WEALTHILY
  In a wealthy manner; richly. I come to wive it wealthily in Padua. Shak.
• MAMMONITE
  One devoted to the acquisition of wealth or the service of Mammon. C. Kingsley.
• DEVOTARY
  A votary. J. Gregory.
• MAMMONIZATION
  The process of making mammonish; the state of being under the influence of mammonism.
• MAMMONIZE
  To make mammonish.
• INDEVOTE
  Not devoted. Bentley. Clarendon.
• PUBLIC-SERVICE CORPORATION; QUASI-PUBLIC CORPORATION
  A corporation, such as a railroad company, lighting company, water company, etc., organized or chartered to follow a public calling or to render services more or less essential to the general public convenience or safety.
• BOND SERVICE
  The condition of a bond servant; sevice without wages; slavery. Their children . . . upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bond service. 1 Kings ix. 21.
• SELF-DEVOTION
  The act of devoting one's self, or the state of being self- devoted; willingness to sacrifice one's own advantage or happiness for the sake of others; self-sacrifice.
• UNSERVICE
  Neglect of duty; idleness; indolence. Massinger.
• COMMONWEALTH
  Specifically, the form of government established on the death of Charles I., in 1649, which existed under Oliver Cromwell and his son Richard, ending with the abdication of the latter in 1659. Syn. -- State; realm; republic. (more info) 1. A state;