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Word Meanings - PULPITEER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who speaks in a pulpit; a preacher; -- so called in contempt. Howell. We never can think it sinful that Burns should have been humorous on such a pulpiteer. Prof. Wilson.

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  • THINKING
    Having the faculty of thought; cogitative; capable of a regular train of ideas; as, man is a thinking being. -- Think"ing*ly, adv.
  • 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.
  • HOWELL
    The upper stage of a porcelian furnace.
  • SHOULDER
    The joint, or the region of the joint, by which the fore limb is connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle; the projection formed by the bones and muscles about that joint. 2. The flesh and muscles connected with the shoulder joint; the
  • SHOULDER-SHOTTEN
    Sprained in the shoulder, as a horse. Shak.
  • NEVERTHELESS
    Not the less; notwithstanding; in spite of that; yet. No chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous; nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness. Heb. xii. 11. Syn. -- However; at least; yet; still.
  • 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.
  • THINK
    confounded with OE. thenken to think, fr. AS. þencean ; akin to D. denken, dunken, OS. thenkian, thunkian, G. denken, dünken, Icel. þekkja to perceive, to know, þykkja to seem, Goth. þagkjan, þaggkjan, to think, þygkjan to think, to seem,
  • 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
  • SHOULDERED
    Having shoulders; -- used in composition; as, a broad- shouldered man. "He was short-shouldered." Chaucer.
  • 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) +
  • HUMOROUSLY
    1. Capriciously; whimsically. We resolve rashly, sillily, or humorously. Calamy. 2. Facetiously; wittily.
  • CALLOT
    A plant coif or skullcap. Same as Calotte. B. Jonson.
  • PULPITED
    Placed in a pulpit. Sit . . . at the feet of a pulpited divine. Milton.
  • 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
  • PULPITER
    A preacher.
  • WHENEVER
    At whatever time. "Whenever that shall be." Milton.
  • GYMNASTICALLY
    In a gymnastic manner.
  • HYPERCRITICALLY
    In a hypercritical manner.
  • UNEMPIRICALLY
    Not empirically; without experiment or experience.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • HUMP-SHOULDERED
    Having high, hunched shoulders. Hawthorne.
  • 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.

 

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