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The seat, or see, of the metropolitan, or highest church dignitary. The great metropolis and see of Rome. Shak. (more info) 1. The mother city; the chief city of a kingdom, state, or country. gray metropolis of the North. Tennyson.

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  • CHIEFLESS
    Without a chief or leader.
  • CHURCHLINESS
    Regard for the church.
  • STATESMANLIKE
    Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
  • CHURCHLIKE
    Befitting a church or a churchman; becoming to a clergyman. Shak.
  • STATEHOOD
    The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
  • COUNTRY-DANCE
    See MACUALAY
  • NORTHERNMOST
    Farthest north.
  • GREAT-HEARTED
    1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
  • GREAT-GRANDFATHER
    The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
  • MOTHER-OF-PEARL
    The hard pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, esp. of pearl oysters, river mussels, and the abalone shells; nacre. See Pearl.
  • NORTHERN
    1. Of or pertaining to the north; being in the north, or nearer to that point than to the east or west. 2. In a direction toward the north; as, to steer a northern course; coming from the north; as, a northern wind. Northern diver. See Loon. --
  • NORTHMAN
    One of the inhabitants of the north of Europe; esp., one of the ancient Scandinavians; a Norseman.
  • METROPOLITANATE
    The see of a metropolitan bishop. Milman.
  • COUNTRY SEAT
    A dwelling in the country, used as a place of retirement from the city.
  • MOTHER'S DAY
    A day appointed for the honor and uplift of motherhood by the loving remembrance of each person of his mother through the performance of some act of kindness, visit, tribute, or letter. The founder of the day is Anna Jarvis, of Philadelphia, who
  • CHURCH
    AS. circe, cyrice; akin to D. kerk, Icel. kirkja, Sw. kyrka, Dan. kirke, G. kirche, OHG. chirihha; all fr. Gr. ç'd4ra hero, Zend. çura 1. A building set apart for Christian worship. 2. A Jewish or heathen temple. Acts xix. 37. 3. A formally
  • CHURCHYARD
    The ground adjoining a church, in which the dead are buried; a cemetery. Like graves in the holy churchyard. Shak. Syn. -- Burial place; burying ground; graveyard; necropolis; cemetery; God's acre.
  • CHURCH-BENCH
    A seat in the porch of a church. Shak.
  • NORTHMOST
    Lying farthest north; northernmost. Northmost part of the coast of Mozambique. De Foe.
  • MOTHERING
    A rural custom in England, of visiting one's parents on Midlent Sunday, -- supposed to have been originally visiting the mother church to make offerings at the high altar.
  • CREBRICOSTATE
    Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
  • SAGEBRUSH STATE
    Nevada; -- a nickname.
  • OLD LINE STATE
    Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
  • ENSTATE
    See INSTATE
  • SMOTHER
    Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick
  • INGREAT
    To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
  • KATASTATE
    A substance formed by a katabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See Katabolic.
  • BAYOU STATE
    Mississippi; -- a nickname, from its numerous bayous.
  • KERCHIEF
    couvrechef, F. couvrechef, a head covering, fr. couvrir to cover + 1. A square of fine linen worn by women as a covering for the head; hence, anything similar in form or material, worn for ornament on other parts of the person; -- mostly used in
  • UNMOTHERED
    Deprived of a mother; motherless.
  • REESTATE
    To reëstablish. Walis.

 

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