Word Meanings - POPULARLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a popular manner; so as to be generally favored or accepted by the people; commonly; currently; as, the story was popularity reported. The victor knight, Bareheaded, popularly low had bowed. Dryden.

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• KNIGHTLESS
  Unbecoming a knight. "Knightless guile." Spenser.
• ACCEPTABLE
  Capable, worthy, or sure of being accepted or received with pleasure; pleasing to a receiver; gratifying; agreeable; welcome; as, an acceptable present, one acceptable to us.
• POPULARIZATION
  The act of making popular, or of introducing among the people.
• BOW OAR
  . 1. The oar used by the bowman. 2. One who rows at the bow of a boat.
• FAVOR
  Partiality; bias. Bouvier. 9. A letter or epistle; -- so called in civility or compliment; as, your favor of yesterday is received. 10. pl. (more info) L. favor, fr. favere to be favorable, cf. Skr. bhavaya to further, foster, causative of bhBe.
• ACCEPT
  To receive as obligatory and promise to pay; as, to accept a bill of exchange. Bouvier. 6. In a deliberate body, to receive in acquittance of a duty imposed; bill , to agree to pay it when due. -- To accept service , to agree that a writ or
• BOWGE
  To swell out. See Bouge.
• STORY-WRITER
  1. One who writes short stories, as for magazines. 2. An historian; a chronicler. "Rathums, the story-writer." 1 Esdr. ii. 17.
• VICTORY
  The defeat of an enemy in battle, or of an antagonist in any contest; a gaining of the superiority in any struggle or competition; conquest; triumph; -- the opposite of Ant: defeat. Death is swallowed up in victory. 1 Cor. xv. 54. God on our side,
• BOWKNOT
  A knot in which a portion of the string is drawn through in the form of a loop or bow, so as to be readily untied.
• PEOPLE
  1. The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation. Unto him shall the gathering of the people be. Gen. xlix. 10. The ants are a people not strong. Prov. xxx.
• BOWYER
  1. An archer; one who uses bow. 2. One who makes or sells bows.
• BOWLER
  One who plays at bowls, or who rolls the ball in cricket or any other game.
• ACCEPTOR
  One who accepts; specifically ,
• FAVORITE
  Short curls dangling over the temples; -- fashionable in the reign of Charles II. Farquhar. (more info) p.p. of OF. favorir, cf. It. favorito, frm. favorita, fr. favorire to 1. A person or thing regarded with peculiar favor; one treated with
• KNIGHT BANNERET
  A knight who carried a banner, who possessed fiefs to a greater amount than the knight bachelor, and who was obliged to serve in war with a greater number of attendants. The dignity was sometimes conferred by the sovereign in person on the field
• BOWNE
  To make ready; to prepare; to dress. We will all bowne ourselves for the banquet. Sir W. Scott.
• BOWHEAD
  The great Arctic or Greenland whale. . See Baleen, and Whale.
• STORYBOOK
  A book containing stories, or short narratives, either true or false.
• FAVORABLE
  1. Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious; friendly. Lend favorable ears to our request. Shak. Lord, thou hast been favorable unto thy land. Ps. lxxxv. 1. 2. Conducive; contributing; tending to promote or facilitate;
• EMBOWER
  To lodge or rest in a bower. "In their wide boughs embow'ring. " Spenser. (more info) -- v. i.
• UNKNIGHT
  To deprive of knighthood. Fuller.
• DISEMBOWERED
  Deprived of, or removed from, a bower. Bryant.
• EMBOWL
  To form like a bowl; to give a globular shape to. Sir P. Sidney.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• MISREPORT
  To report erroneously; to give an incorrect account of. Locke.