Word Meanings - PROTECTORATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Government by a protector; -- applied especially to the government of England by Oliver Cromwell. 2. The authority assumed by a superior power over an inferior or a dependent one, whereby the former protects the latter from invasion and shares
Additional info about word: PROTECTORATE
1. Government by a protector; -- applied especially to the government of England by Oliver Cromwell. 2. The authority assumed by a superior power over an inferior or a dependent one, whereby the former protects the latter from invasion and shares in the management of its affairs.
Related words: (words related to PROTECTORATE)
- APPLICABLE
Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv. - ASSUMABLE
That may be assumed. - OLIVERIAN
An adherent of Oliver Cromwell. Macaulay. - APPLICATIVE
Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv. - POWERFUL
Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any - INFERIORLY
In an inferior manner, or on the inferior part. - POWERABLE
1. Capable of being effected or accomplished by the application of power; possible. J. Young. 2. Capable of exerting power; powerful. Camden. - FORMERLY
In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore. - APPLICANCY
The quality or state of being applicable. - APPLICABILITY
The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied. - LATTERLY
Lately; of late; recently; at a later, as distinguished from a former, period. Latterly Milton was short and thick. Richardson. - LATTER-DAY SAINT
A Mormon; -- the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints being the name assumed by the whole body of Mormons. - LATTERKIN
A pointed wooden tool used in glazing leaden lattice. - ASSUMEDLY
By assumption. - APPLICATORILY
By way of application. - DEPENDENT
1. Hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf. 2. Relying on, or subject to, something else for support; not able to exist, or sustain itself, or to perform anything, without the will, power, or aid of something else; not self-sustaining; - PROTECTORIAL
See PROTECTORAL - ASSUMER
One who assumes, arrogates, pretends, or supposes. W. D. Whitney. - ASSUMPTIVE
Assumed, or capable of being assumed; characterized by assumption; making unwarranted claims. -- As*sump"tive*ly, adv. Assumptive arms , originally, arms which a person had a right to assume, in consequence of an exploit; now, those assumed without - PROTECTORLESS
Having no protector; unprotected. - BLATTER
To prate; to babble; to rail; to make a senseless noise; to patter. "The rain blattered." Jeffrey. They procured . . . preachers to blatter against me, . . . so that they had place and time to belie me shamefully. Latimer. - DEFORMER
One who deforms. - FLATTER
1. One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens. A flat-faced fulling hammer. A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc. - BLATTEROON
A senseless babbler or boaster. "I hate such blatteroons." Howell. - NON ASSUMPSIT
The general plea or denial in an action of assumpsit. - UNAPPLIABLE
Inapplicable. Milton. - BEFLATTER
To flatter excessively. - CANDLE POWER
Illuminating power, as of a lamp, or gas flame, reckoned in terms of the light of a standard candle. - SARGASSUM
A genus of algæ including the gulf weed. - CLATTERINGLY
With clattering. - REAPPLICATION
The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied. - SPLATTERDASH
Uproar. Jamieson.