Word Meanings - PANTISOCRACY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A Utopian community, in which all should rule equally, such as was devised by Coleridge, Lovell, and Southey, in their younger days.
Related words: (words related to PANTISOCRACY)
- SHOULDER
The joint, or the region of the joint, by which the fore limb is connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle; the projection formed by the bones and muscles about that joint. 2. The flesh and muscles connected with the shoulder joint; the - SHOULDER-SHOTTEN
Sprained in the shoulder, as a horse. Shak. - DEVISABLE
1. Capable of being devised, invented, or contrived. 2. Capable of being bequeathed, or given by will. - SHOULDERED
Having shoulders; -- used in composition; as, a broad- shouldered man. "He was short-shouldered." Chaucer. - DEVISAL
A devising. Whitney. - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - UTOPIAN
Of or pertaining to Utopia; resembling Utopia; hence, ideal; chimerical; fanciful; founded upon, or involving, imaginary perfections; as, Utopian projects; Utopian happiness. - UTOPIANISM
The ideas, views, aims, etc., of a Utopian; impracticable schemes of human perfection; optimism. - WHICH
the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who. - COMMUNITY
1. Common possession or enjoyment; participation; as, a community of goods. The original community of all things. Locke. An unreserved community of thought and feeling. W. Irwing. 2. A body of people having common rights, privileges, or interests, - DEVISER
One who devises. - UTOPIANIST
An Utopian; an optimist. - DEVISE
To give by will; -- used of real estate; formerly, also, of chattels. Syn. -- To bequeath; invent; discover; contrive; excogitate; imagine; plan; scheme. See Bequeath. (more info) chat, fr. L. divisus divided, distributed, p. p. of dividere. See - DEVISEE
One to whom a devise is made, or real estate given by will. - DEVISOR
One who devises, or gives real estate by will; a testator; -- correlative to devisee. - SHOULD
Used as an auxiliary verb, to express a conditional or contingent act or state, or as a supposition of an actual fact; also, to express moral obligation ; e. g.: they should have come last week; if I should go; I should think you could go. "You - EQUALLY
In an equal manner or degree in equal shares or proportion; with equal and impartial justice; without difference; alike; evenly; justly; as, equally taxed, furnished, etc. - THEIR
The possessive case of the personal pronoun they; as, their houses; their country. Note: The possessive takes the form theirs (theirs is best cultivated. Nothing but the name of zeal appears 'Twixt our best actions and the worst of theirs. Denham. - HUMP-SHOULDERED
Having high, hunched shoulders. Hawthorne. - POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis - SELF-DEVISED
Devised by one's self. - DISCOMMUNITY
A lack of common possessions, properties, or relationship. Community of embryonic structure reveals community of descent; but dissimilarity of embryonic development does not prove discommunity of descent. Darwin. - ROUND-SHOULDERED
Having the shoulders stooping or projecting; round-backed. - UNEQUALLY
In an unequal manner. Unequally pinnate , pinnate, but with an odd number of leaflets.