Word Meanings - NECTAR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The drink of the gods ; hence, any delicious or inspiring beverage.

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• DRINKABLE
  Capable of being drunk; suitable for drink; potable. Macaulay. Also used substantively, esp. in the plural. Steele.
• DRINK
  p. pr. & vb. n. Drinking. Drunken is now rarely used, except as a verbal adj. in sense of habitually intoxicated; the form drank, not drincan; akin to OS. drinkan, D. drinken, G. trinken, Icel. drekka, 1. To swallow anything liquid, for quenching
• INSPIRING
  Animating; cheering; moving; exhilarating; as, an inspiring or scene.
• INSPIRATOR
  A kind of injector for forcing water by steam. See Injector, n., 2.
• DRINKER
  One who drinks; as, the effects of tea on the drinker; also, one who drinks spirituous liquors to excess; a drunkard. Drinker moth , a large British moth .
• INSPIRED
  1. Breathed in; inhaled. 2. Moved or animated by, or as by, a supernatural influence; affected by divine inspiration; as, the inspired prophets; the inspired writers. 3. Communicated or given as by supernatural or divine inspiration; having divine
• INSPIRATIONIST
  One who holds to inspiration.
• DRINKABLENESS
  State of being drinkable.
• INSPIRATION
  A supernatural divine influence on the prophets, apostles, or sacred writers, by which they were qualified to communicate moral or religious truth with authority; a supernatural influence which qualifies men to receive and communicate divine truth;
• INSPIRABLE
  Capable of being inspired or drawn into the lungs; inhalable; respirable; admitting inspiration. Harvey.
• HENCE
  ending; cf. -wards), also hen, henne, hennen, heonnen, heonene, AS. heonan, heonon, heona, hine; akin to OHG. hinnan, G. hinnen, OHG. 1. From this place; away. "Or that we hence wend." Chaucer. Arise, let us go hence. John xiv. 31. I will send
• DELICIOUSNESS
  1. The quality of being delicious; as, the deliciousness of a repast. 2. Luxury. "To drive away all superfluity and deliciousness." Sir T. North.
• DELICIOUS
  1. Affording exquisite pleasure; delightful; most sweet or grateful to the senses, especially to the taste; charming. Some delicious landscape. Coleridge. One draught of spring's delicious air. Keble. Were not his words delicious Tennyson.
• DRINKING
  1. The act of one who drinks; the act of imbibing. 2. The practice of partaking to excess of intoxicating liquors. 3. An entertainment with liquors; a carousal. Note: Drinking is used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound; as, a drinking
• INSPIRATORY
  Pertaining to, or aiding, inspiration; as, the inspiratory muscles.
• HENCEFORWARD
  From this time forward; henceforth.
• DELICIOUSLY
  Delightfully; as, to feed deliciously; to be deliciously entertained.
• INSPIRATIONAL
  Pertaining to inspiration.
• INSPIRER
  One who, or that which, inspirer. "Inspirer of that holy flame." Cowper.
• HENCEFORTH
  From this time forward; henceforward. I never from thy side henceforth to stray. Milton.
• HEREHENCE
  From hence.
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• OVERDRINK
  To drink to excess.
• THENCEFROM
  From that place.
• THENCE
  see -wards) thennes, thannes , AS. thanon, thanan, thonan; akin to OHG. dannana, dannan, danan, and G. 1. From that place. "Bid him thence go." Chaucer. When ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Mark
• ARCHENCEPHALA
  The division that includes man alone. R. Owen.
• THENCEFORTH
  From that time; thereafter. If the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted it is thenceforth good for nothing. Matt. v. 13. Note: This word is sometimes preceded by from, -- a redundancy sanctioned by custom. Chaucer. John. xix. 12.
• WHENCEEVER
  Whencesoever.
• REINSPIRE
  To inspire anew. Milton.