Word Meanings - PERMITTANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The act of permitting; allowance; permission; leave. Milton.
Related words: (words related to PERMITTANCE)
- LEAVE-TAKING
Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak. - LEAVED
Bearing, or having, a leaf or leaves; having folds; -- used in combination; as, a four-leaved clover; a two-leaved gate; long- leaved. - PERMITTER
One who permits. A permitter, or not a hinderer, of sin. J. Edwards. - LEAVENING
1. The act of making light, or causing to ferment, by means of leaven. 2. That which leavens or makes light. Bacon. - PERMITTEE
One to whom a permission or permit is given. - LEAVELESS
Leafless. Carew. - PERMISSION
The act of permitting or allowing; formal consent; authorization; leave; license or liberty granted. High permission of all-ruling Heaven. Milton. You have given me your permission for this address. Dryden. Syn. -- Leave; liberty; license. -- Leave, - PERMITTANCE
The act of permitting; allowance; permission; leave. Milton. - LEAVEN
alleviation, mitigation; but taken in the sense of, a raising, that 1. Any substance that produces, or is designed to produce, fermentation, as in dough or liquids; esp., a portion of fermenting dough, which, mixed with a larger quantity of dough, - ALLOWANCE
A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret. (more info) 1. Approval; approbation. Crabbe. 2. The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; - MILTONIAN
Miltonic. Lowell. - LEAVENOUS
Containing leaven. Milton. - MILTONIC
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose. - LEAVER
One who leaves, or withdraws. - LEAVE
To send out leaves; to leaf; -- often with out. G. Fletcher. - LEAVES
pl. of Leaf. - BELEAVE
To leave or to be left. May. - CLEAVER
One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces. - FIVE-LEAFED; FIVE-LEAVED
Having five leaflets, as the Virginia creeper. - PARKLEAVES
A European species of Saint John's-wort; the tutsan. See Tutsan. - CLEAVELANDITE
A variety of albite, white and lamellar in structure. - CLEAVE
clifian; akin to OS. klibon, G. kleben, LG. kliven, D. kleven, Dan. klæbe, Sw. klibba, and also to G. kleiben to cleve, paste, Icel. 1. To adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast; to cling. My bones cleave to my skin. Ps. cii. 5. The diseases of - FORLEAVE
To leave off wholly. Chaucer. - SLEAVED
Raw; not spun or wrought; as, sleaved thread or silk. Holinshed. - HAMILTON PERIOD
A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology. - DISLEAVE
To deprive of leaves. The cankerworms that annually that disleaved the elms. Lowell.