Word Meanings - PROPOSER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. One who proposes or offers anything for consideration or adoption. 2. A speaker; an orator. Shak.
Related words: (words related to PROPOSER)
- ANYTHINGARIAN
One who holds to no particular creed or dogma. - ORATORY
A place of orisons, or prayer; especially, a chapel or small room set apart for private devotions. An oratory . . . in worship of Dian. Chaucer. Do not omit thy prayers for want of a good oratory, or place to pray in. Jer. Taylor. Fathers of the - SPEAKERSHIP
The office of speaker; as, the speakership of the House of Representatives. - ORATORIO
A more or less dramatic text or poem, founded on some Scripture nerrative, or great divine event, elaborately set to music, in recitative, arias, grand choruses, etc., to be sung with an orchestral accompaniment, but without action, scenery, or - SPEAKER
1. One who speaks. Specifically: One who utters or pronounces a discourse; usually, one who utters a speech in public; as, the man is a good speaker, or a bad speaker. One who is the mouthpiece of others; especially, one who presides - ORATORIAL
Oratorical. Swift. --Or`a*to"ri*al*ly, adv. - ORATORICAL
Of or pertaining to an orator or to oratory; characterized by oratory; rhetorical; becoming to an orator; as, an oratorical triumph; an oratorical essay. -- Or`a*tor"ic*al*ly, adv. - ADOPTIONIST
One of a sect which maintained that Christ was the Son of God not by nature but by adoption. - CONSIDERATION
The cause which moves a contracting party to enter into an agreement; the material cause of a contract; the price of a stripulation; compensation; equivalent. Bouvier. Note: Consideration is what is done, or promised to be done, in exchange for - ADOPTION
1. The act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one's own child. 2. Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, - ORATORIAN
Oratorical. R. North. - ORATORIZE
To play the orator. Dickens. - ORATORIOUS
Oratorical. Jer. Taylor. -- Or`a*to"ri*ous*ly, adv. - ORATOR
An officer who is the voice of the university upon all public occasions, who writes, reads, and records all letters of a public nature, presents, with an appropriate address, those persons on whom honorary degrees are to be conferred, and performs - ANYTHING
1. Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatever; thing of any kind; something or other; aught; as, I would not do it for anything. Did you ever know of anything so unlucky A. Trollope. They do not know that anything is amiss with them. W. G. - AMELIORATOR
One who ameliorates. - IMPLORATORY
Supplicatory; entreating. Carlyle. - EDULCORATOR
A contrivance used to supply small quantities of sweetened liquid, water, etc., to any mixture, or to test tubes, etc.; a dropping bottle. - INCONSIDERATION
Want of due consideration; inattention to consequences; inconsiderateness. Blindness of mind, inconsideration, precipitation. Jer. Taylor. Not gross, willful, deliberate, crimes; but rather the effects of inconsideration. Sharp. - MORATORIUM
A period during which an obligor has a legal right to delay meeting an obligation, esp. such a period granted, as to a bank, by a moratory law. - BESPEAKER
One who bespeaks. - MELIORATOR
One who meliorates. - EVAPORATOR
An apparatus for condensing vegetable juices, or for drying fruit by heat. - MORATORY
Of or pertaining to delay; esp., designating a law passed, as in a time of financial panic, to postpone or delay for a period the time at which notes, bills of exchange, and other obligations, shall mature or become due. - LABORATORY
The workroom of a chemist; also, a place devoted to experiments in any branch of natural science; as, a chemical, physical, or biological laboratory. Hence, by extension, a place where something is prepared, or some operation is performed; as, the - ELABORATOR
One who, or that which, elaborates. - CORROBORATORY
Tending to strengthen; corroborative; as, corroboratory facts. - RESTORATORY
Restorative. - ELABORATORY
Tending to elaborate. - ARBORATOR
One who plants or who prunes trees. Evelyn.