Word Meanings - PARENTATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Something done or said in honor of the dead; obsequies. Abp. Potter.

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• POTTERN
  Of or pertaining to potters. Pottern ore, a species of ore which, from its aptness to vitrify like the glazing of potter's wares, the miners call by this name. Boyle.
• HONORABLE
  1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an
• OBSEQUIES
  See OBSEQUY
• HONORABLENESS
  1. The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction. 2. Conformity to the principles of honor, probity, or moral rectitude; fairness; uprightness; reputableness.
• HONOR
  1. Esteem due or paid to worth; high estimation; respect; consideration; reverence; veneration; manifestation of respect or reverence. A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country. Matt. xiii.
• HONORARY
  1. Done as a sign or evidence of honor; as, honorary services. Macaulay. 2. Conferring honor, or intended merely to confer honor without emolument; as, an honorary degree. "Honorary arches." Addison. 3. Holding a title or place without rendering
• POTTERY
  1. The vessels or ware made by potters; earthenware, glazed and baked. 2. The place where earthen vessels are made.
• HONORLESS
  Destitute of honor; not honored. Bp. Warburton.
• POTTER
  The red-bellied terrapin. See Terrapin. Potter's asthma , emphysema of the lungs; -- so called because very prevalent among potters. Parkers. -- Potter's clay. See under Clay. -- Potter's field, a public burial place, especially in a city, for
• HONORARIUM; HONORARY
  An honorary payment, usually in recognition of services for which it is not usual or not lawful to assign a fixed business price. Heumann. (more info) 1. A fee offered to professional men for their services; as, an honorarium of one thousand
• HONORER
  One who honors.
• HONORIFIC
  Conferring honor; tending to honor. London. Spectator.
• HONORABLY
  1. In an honorable manner; in a manner showing, or consistent with, honor. The reverend abbot . . . honorably received him. Shak. Why did I not more honorably starve Dryden. 2. Decently; becomingly. "Do this message honorably." Shak. Syn. --
• SOMETHING
  1. Anything unknown, undetermined, or not specifically designated; a certain indefinite thing; an indeterminate or unknown event; an unspecified task, work, or thing. There is something in the wind. Shak. The whole world has something
• DISHONOR
  The nonpayment or nonacceptance of commercial paper by the party on whom it is drawn. Syn. -- Disgrace; ignominy; shame; censure; reproach; opprobrium. (more info) deshonur, F. déshonneur; pref. des- + honor, honur, F. 1. Lack of honor;
• SPOTTER
  One who spots.
• DISHONORABLE
  1. Wanting in honor; not honorable; bringing or deserving dishonor; staining the character, and lessening the reputation; shameful; disgraceful; base. 2. Wanting in honor or esteem; disesteemed. He that is dishonorable in riches, how much more
• PHONORGANON
  A speaking machine.
• DISHONORER
  One who dishonors or disgraces; one who treats another indignity. Milton.
• TIME-HONORED
  Honored for a long time; venerable, and worthy of honor, by reason of antiquity, or long continuance.