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Word Meanings - PLIGHT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

imp. & p. p. of Plight, to pledge. Chaucer.

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  • INSTANCE
    1. The act or quality of being instant or pressing; urgency; solicitation; application; suggestion; motion. Undertook at her instance to restore them. Sir W. Scott. 2. That which is instant or urgent; motive. The instances that second marriage
  • STATESMANLIKE
    Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
  • IMPLY
    1. To infold or involve; to wrap up. "His head in curls implied." Chapman. 2. To involve in substance or essence, or by fair inference, or by construction of law, when not include virtually; as, war implies fighting. Where a mulicious act is
  • CONTRADICTABLE
    Capable of being contradicting.
  • STATEHOOD
    The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
  • SUBJECTION
    1. The act of subjecting, or of bringing under the dominion of another; the act of subduing. The conquest of the kingdom, and subjection of the rebels. Sir M. Hale. 2. The state of being subject, or under the power, control, and government
  • QUALIFICATION
    1. The act of qualifying, or the condition of being qualified. 2. That which qualifies; any natural endowment, or any acquirement, which fits a person for a place, office, or employment, or which enables him to sustian any character with success;
  • EVENT
    1. That which comes, arrives, or happens; that which falls out; any incident, good or bad. "The events of his early years." Macaulay. To watch quietly the course of events. Jowett There is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked. Eccl. ix.
  • SUBJECTIST
    One skilled in subjective philosophy; a subjectivist.
  • PLACEMENT
    1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
  • SUBJECTNESS
    Quality of being subject.
  • RETRACTOR
    One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically: In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.
  • FOOTMARK
    A footprint; a track or vestige. Coleridge.
  • CONTRADICTIVE
    Contradictory; inconsistent. -- Con`tra*dict"ive*ly, adv..
  • OFFICEHOLDER
    An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
  • PLACENTARY
    Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
  • SUPPRESSOR
    One who suppresses.
  • PLACE-KICK
    To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
  • CONDITIONALITY
    The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms.
  • FOOTPLATE
    See
  • CREBRICOSTATE
    Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
  • GOOSEFOOT
    A genus of herbs mostly annual weeds; pigweed.
  • PREREQUISITE
    Previously required; necessary as a preliminary to any proposed effect or end; as, prerequisite conditions of success.
  • IMPREVENTABLE
    Not preventable; invitable.
  • SAGEBRUSH STATE
    Nevada; -- a nickname.
  • POST OFFICE
    See POST
  • OLD LINE STATE
    Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
  • ENSTATE
    See INSTATE
  • SURFOOT
    Tired or sore of foot from travel; lamed. Nares.
  • PREVENTATIVE
    That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
  • SALTFOOT
    A large saltcellar formerly placed near the center of the table. The superior guests were seated above the saltfoot.
  • BYSTANDER
    One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey. Syn. -- Looker on; spectator; beholder; observer.
  • STILLBIRTH
    The birth of a dead fetus.
  • KATASTATE
    A substance formed by a katabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See Katabolic.

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