Word Meanings - OVERMERIT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Excessive merit. Bacon.

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• BACON
  The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle , a beetle which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's
• BACONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction.
• MERITHAL; MERITHALLUS
  See INTERNODE
• MERITORY
  Meritorious.
• MERITOT
  A play of children, in swinging on ropes, or the like, till they are dizzy.
• MERITABLE
  Deserving of reward.
• MERITMONGER
  One who depends on merit for salvation. Milner.
• MERITEDLY
  By merit; deservedly.
• EXCESSIVE
  Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch. Excessive grief the enemy to the living. Shak. Syn. -- Undue; exorbitant; extreme; overmuch; enormous; immoderate; monstrous; intemperate; unreasonable. See Enormous --Ex*cess*ive*ly,
• MERITORIOUS
  Possessing merit; deserving of reward or honor; worthy of recompense; valuable. And meritorious shall that hand be called, Canonized, and worshiped as a saint. Shak. -- Mer`i*to"ri*ous*ly, adv. -- Mer`i*to"ri*ous*ness, n.
• MERIT
  deserve, merit; prob. originally, to get a share; akin to Gr. Market, 1. The quality or state of deserving well or ill; desert. Here may men see how sin hath his merit. Chaucer. Be it known, that we, the greatest, are misthought For things that
• TEMERITY
  Unreasonable contempt of danger; extreme venturesomeness; rashness; as, the temerity of a commander in war. Syn. -- Rashness; precipitancy; heedlessness; venturesomeness. -- Temerity, Rashness. These words are closely allied in sense, but have a
• EMERITUS
  Honorably discharged from the performance of public duty on account of age, infirmity, or long and faithful services; -- said of an officer of a college or pastor of a church. (more info) emerere, emereri, to obtain by service, serve out one's
• PROMERIT
  1. To oblige; to confer a favor on. Bp. Hall. 2. To deserve; to procure by merit. Davenant.
• OVERMERIT
  Excessive merit. Bacon.
• IMMERITED
  Unmerited. Charles I.
• EMERITED
  Considered as having done sufficient public service, and therefore honorably discharged. Evelyn.
• DEMERIT
  demerit , fr. L. demerere to deserve well, LL., to 1. That which one merits or deserves, either of good or ill; desert. By many benefits and demerits whereby they obliged their adherents, acquired this reputation. Holland. 2. That which deserves
• PROTOMERITE
  The second segment of one of the Gregarinæ.
• IMMERIT
  Want of worth; demerit. Suckling.