Word Meanings - PRIESTERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Priests, collectively; the priesthood; -- so called in contempt. Milton.

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• CALLOSUM
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• CALLE
  A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer.
• COLLECTIVELY
  In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.
• CONTEMPTIBLY
  In a contemptible manner.
• CONTEMPTUOUSLY
  In a contemptuous manner; with scorn or disdain; despitefully. The apostles and most eminent Christians were poor, and used contemptuously. Jer. Taylor.
• CALL
  callen, AS. ceallin; akin to Icel & Sw. kalla, Dan. kalde, D. kallen 1. To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant. Call hither Clifford; bid him come amain Shak. 2. To summon to the discharge of a particular
• CONTEMPTUOUS
  Manifecting or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; haughty; insolent; disdainful. A proud, contemptious behavior. Hammond. Savage invectiveand contemptuous sarcasm. Macaulay. Rome . . . entertained the most contemptuous opinion of the Jews.
• CALLIOPE
  The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses. (more info) beautiful) +
• CALLOT
  A plant coif or skullcap. Same as Calotte. B. Jonson.
• CONTEMPT
  Disobedience of the rules, orders, or process of a court of justice, or of rules or orders of a legislative body; disorderly, contemptuous, or insolent language or behavior in presence of a court, tending to disturb its proceedings, or impair the
• CALLIGRAPHIC; CALLIGRAPHICAL
  Of or pertaining to calligraphy. Excellence in the calligraphic act. T. Warton.
• CONTEMPTIBLENESS
  The state or quality of being contemptible, or of being despised.
• CALLOSE
  Furnished with protuberant or hardened spots.
• CALLIDITY
  Acuteness of discernment; cunningness; shrewdness. Her eagly-eyed callidity. C. Smart.
• CALLIGRAPHY
  Fair or elegant penmanship.
• CALLOSAN
  Of the callosum.
• CALLIGRAPHIST
  A calligrapher
• CALLOUS
  1. Hardenes; indurated. "A callous hand." Goldsmith. "A callous ulcer." Dunglison. 2. Hardened in mind; insensible; unfeeling; unsusceptible. "The callous diplomatist." Macaulay. It is an immense blessing to be perfectly callous to ridicule. T.
• GYMNASTICALLY
  In a gymnastic manner.
• HYPERCRITICALLY
  In a hypercritical manner.
• SCALLION
  A kind of small onion , native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc.
• UNEMPIRICALLY
  Not empirically; without experiment or experience.
• UNIVOCALLY
  In a univocal manner; in one term; in one sense; not equivocally. How is sin univocally distinguished into venial and mortal, if the venial be not sin Bp. Hall.
• PARABOLICALLY
  1. By way of parable; in a parabolic manner. 2. In the form of a parabola.
• STEREOGRAPHICALLY
  In a stereographical manner; by delineation on a plane.
• HEMEROCALLIS
  A genus of plants, some species of which are cultivated for their beautiful flowers; day lily.
• ACRONYCALLY
  In an acronycal manner as rising at the setting of the sun, and vise versâ.
• PHYSIOLOGICALLY
  In a physiological manner.
• DIAMETRICALLY
  In a diametrical manner; directly; as, diametrically opposite. Whose principles were diametrically opposed to his. Macaulay.
• ETHNICALLY
  In an ethnical manner.
• ECCENTRICALLY
  In an eccentric manner. Drove eccentrically here and there. Lew Wallace.
• IAMBICALLY
  In a iambic manner; after the manner of iambics.
• ATMOSPHERICALLY
  In relation to the atmosphere.
• CRITICALLY
  1. In a critical manner; with nice discernment; accurately; exactly. Critically to discern good writers from bad. Dryden. 2. At a crisis; at a critical time; in a situation. place, or condition of decisive consequence; as, a fortification
• SYNECDOCHICALLY
  By synecdoche.