Word Meanings - MUNCHAUSENISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An extravagant fiction embodying an account of some marvelous exploit or adventure.

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• ACCOUNTANTSHIP
  The office or employment of an accountant.
• ACCOUNTANCY
  The art or employment of an accountant.
• ADVENTURESS
  A female adventurer; a woman who tries to gain position by equivocal means.
• EXTRAVAGANT
  + vagance, , p. pr. of vagari to wander, from vagus wandering, vague. 1. Wandering beyond one's bounds; roving; hence, foreign. The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine. Shak. 2. Exceeding due bounds; wild; excessive; unrestrained;
• MARVELOUS
  1. Exciting wonder or surprise; astonishing; wonderful. This is the Lord's doing; it is marvelous in our eyes. Ps. cxiii. 23. 2. Partaking of the character of miracle, or superna The marvelous fable includes whatever is supernatural, and especially
• FICTIONIST
  A writer of fiction. Lamb.
• EXPLOITURE
  1. The act of exploiting or accomplishing; achievement. Udall. 2. Exploitation. Harper's Mag.
• FICTION
  An assumption of a possible thing as a fact, irrespective of the question of its truth. Wharton. 5. Any like assumption made for convenience, as for passing more rapidly over what is not disputed, and arriving at points really at issue. Syn. --
• ADVENTURESOME
  Full of risk; adventurous; venturesome. -- Ad*ven"ture*some*ness, n.
• ACCOUNTABILITY
  The state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account; accountableness. "The awful idea of accountability." R. Hall.
• ADVENTUREFUL
  Given to adventure.
• EXPLOITATION
  The act of exploiting or utilizing. J. D. Whitney.
• EMBODY
  To form into a body; to invest with a body; to collect into a body, a united mass, or a whole; to incorporate; as, to embody one's ideas in a treatise. Devils embodied and disembodied. Sir W. Scott. The soul, while it is embodied, can no more be
• ACCOUNTABLE
  1. Liable to be called on to render an account; answerable; as, every man is accountable to God for his conduct. 2. Capable of being accounted for; explicable. True religion . . . intelligible, rational, and accountable, -- not a burden
• FICTIONAL
  Pertaining to, or characterized by, fiction; fictitious; romantic."Fictional rather than historical." Latham.
• ACCOUNT BOOK
  A book in which accounts are kept. Swift.
• ADVENTURER
  1. One who adventures; as, the merchant adventurers; one who seeks his fortune in new and hazardous or perilous enterprises. 2. A social pretender on the lookout for advancement.
• EXPLOIT
  To utilize; to make available; to get the value or usefulness out of; as, to exploit a mine or agricultural lands; to exploit public opinion. 3. Hence: To draw an illegitimate profit from; to speculate on; to put upon. In no sense whatever does
• ACCOUNTABLENESS
  The quality or state of being accountable; accountability.
• ACCOUNTABLY
  In an accountable manner.
• DISADVENTURE
  Misfortune; mishap. Sir W. Raleigh.
• COADVENTURER
  A fellow adventurer.
• COADVENTURE
  An adventure in which two or more persons are partakers.
• PERADVENTURE
  By chance; perhaps; it may be; if; supposing. "If peradventure he speak against me." Shak. Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city. Gen. xviii.
• MISADVENTURED
  Unfortunate.