Word Meanings - MAND - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A demand. See Demand.
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- ADMONISHER
One who admonishes. - DIRECT CURRENT
A current flowing in one direction only; -- distinguished from alternating current. When steady and not pulsating a direct current is often called a continuous current. A direct induced current, or momentary current of the same direction as the - DIRECTER
One who directs; a director. Directer plane , the plane to which all right-lined elements in a warped surface are parallel. - OBLIGER
One who, or that which, obliges. Sir H. Wotton. - ORDAINMENT
Ordination. Burke. - OBLIGEMENT
Obligation. I will not resist, therefore, whatever it is, either of divine or human obligement, that you lay upon me. Milton. - DIRECT ACTION
See BELOW - LEARN
linon, for lirnon, OHG. lirnen, lernen, G. lernen, fr. the root of AS. l to teach, OS. lerian, OHG.leran, G. lehren, Goth. laisjan, also Goth lais I know, leis acquainted ; all prob. from a root meaning, to go, go over, and hence, to learn; cf. - DIRECT NOMINATION
The nomination or designation of candidates for public office by direct popular vote rather than through the action of a convention or body of elected nominating representatives or delegates. The term is applied both to the nomination of candidates - DIRECTRIX
1. A directress. Jer. Taylor. A line along which a point in another line moves, or which in any way governs the motion of the point and determines the position of the curve generated by it; the line along which the generatrix moves in generating - IMPRESS
To take by force for public service; as, to impress sailors or money. The second five thousand pounds impressed for the service of the sick and wounded prisoners. Evelyn. (more info) pref. im- in, on + premere to press. See Press to squeeze, and - COMMISSIONAIRE
1. One intrusted with a commission, now only a small commission, as an errand; esp., an attendant or subordinate employee in a public office, hotel, or the like. The commissionaire familiar to European travelers performs miscellaneous services - APPOINTER
One who appoints, or executes a power of appointment. Kent. - DIRECT
In the direction of the general planetary motion, or from west to east; in the order of the signs; not retrograde; -- said of the motion of a celestial body. Direct action. See Direct-acting. -- Direct discourse , the language of any one quoted - APPOINTMENT
The exercise of the power of designating (under a "power of appointment") a person to enjoy an estate or other specific property; also, the instrument by which the designation is made. 6. Equipment, furniture, as for a ship or an army; whatever - ENJOIN
To prohibit or restrain by a judicial order or decree; to put an injunction on. This is a suit to enjoin the defendants from disturbing the plaintiffs. Kent. Note: Enjoin has the force of pressing admonition with authority; as, a parent enjoins - APPOINTOR
The person who selects the appointee. See Appointee, 2. - IMPRESSIONABLE
Liable or subject to impression; capable of being molded; susceptible; impressible. He was too impressionable; he had too much of the temperament of genius. Motley. A pretty face and an impressionable disposition. T. Hook. - APPOINTIVE
Subject to appointment; as, an appointive office. - DIRECTORY
Containing directions; enjoining; instructing; directorial. - IMBORDER
To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton. - HALF-LEARNED
Imperfectly learned. - MISORDER
To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak. - FOREORDAIN
To ordain or appoint beforehand; to preordain; to predestinate; to predetermine. Hooker. - GUINEA-PIG DIRECTOR
A director who serves merely or mainly for the fee paid for attendance. - REAPPOINT
To appoint again. - ACCORDER
One who accords, assents, or concedes. - PREAPPOINTMENT
Previous appointment. - DISOBLIGER
One who disobliges.