Word Meanings - OLD-GENTLEMANLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Pertaining to an old gentleman, or like one. Byron.
Related words: (words related to OLD-GENTLEMANLY)
- PERTAIN
stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant - GENTLEMANHOOD
The qualities or condition of a gentleman. Thackeray. - BYRONIC
Pertaining to, or in the style of, Lord Byron. With despair and Byronic misanthropy. Thackeray - GENTLEMANLIKE; GENTLEMANLY
Of, pertaining to, resembling, or becoming, a gentleman; well- behaved; courteous; polite. - GENTLEMAN
One who bears arms, but has no title. 4. The servant of a man of rank. The count's gentleman, one Cesario. Shak. 5. A man, irrespective of condition; -- used esp. in the plural (= citizens; people), in addressing men in popular assemblies, etc. - GENTLEMANLINESS
The state of being gentlemanly; gentlemanly conduct or manners. - GENTLEMANSHIP
The carriage or quality of a gentleman. - OLD-GENTLEMANLY
Pertaining to an old gentleman, or like one. Byron. - APPERTAIN
To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach