Word Meanings - QUEST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit; as, to rove in quest of game, of a lost child, of property, etc. Upon an hard adventure yet in quest. Spenser. Cease your quest of love. Shak. There ended

Additional info about word: QUEST

1. The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit; as, to rove in quest of game, of a lost child, of property, etc. Upon an hard adventure yet in quest. Spenser. Cease your quest of love. Shak. There ended was his quest, there ceased his care. Milton. 2. Request; desire; solicitation. Gad not abroad at every quest and call Of an untrained hope or passion. Herbert. 3. Those who make search or inquiry, taken collectively. The senate hath sent about three several quests to search you out. Shak. 4. Inquest; jury of inquest. What lawful quest have given their verdict Shak.

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• CHILDSHIP
  The state or relation of being a child.
• ENDENIZATION
  The act of naturalizing.
• AFTERCAST
  A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late. Gower.
• QUESTORSHIP
  The office, or the term of office, of a questor.
• LOOKDOWN
  See
• CHILDISHNESS
  The state or quality of being childish; simplicity; harmlessness; weakness of intellect.
• ENDORSER
  See INDORSER
• ENDOGENY
  Growth from within; multiplication of cells by endogenous division, as in the development of one or more cells in the interior of a parent cell.
• ENDENIZE
  To endenizen.
• ENDOTHECIUM
  The inner lining of an another cell.
• THEREAGAIN
  In opposition; against one's course. If that him list to stand thereagain. Chaucer.
• ENDOSCOPE
  An instrument for examining the interior of the rectum, the urethra, and the bladder.
• CHILDED
  Furnished with a child.
• AFTERPAINS
  The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth.
• CHILDBIRTH
  The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor. Jer. Taylor.
• ENDOPLASM
  The protoplasm in the interior of a cell.
• THERETO
  1. To that or this. Chaucer. 2. Besides; moreover. Spenser. Her mouth full small, and thereto soft and red. Chaucer.
• ENDOCHROME
  The coloring matter within the cells of plants, whether green, red, yellow, or any other color.
• ENDALL; END-ALL
  Complete termination. That but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here. Shak.
• THEREBEFORE; THEREBIFORN
  Before that time; beforehand. Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer.
• COMMENDATOR
  One who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary. Chalmers.
• AMENDFUL
  Much improving.
• OFFENDANT
  An offender. Holland.
• GENDER
  A classification of nouns, primarily according to sex; and secondarily according to some fancied or imputed quality associated with sex. Gender is a grammatical distinction and applies to words only. Sex is natural distinction and applies to living
• ACCENDIBILITY
  Capacity of being kindled, or of becoming inflamed; inflammability.
• FRIENDLINESS
  The condition or quality of being friendly. Sir P. Sidney.
• STIPEND
  Settled pay or compensation for services, whether paid daily, monthly, or annually.
• SHENDFUL
  Destructive; ruinous; disgraceful. -- Shend"ful*ly, adv. Fabyan.
• SEA LAVENDER
  See MARSH
• DECRESCENDO
  With decreasing volume of sound; -- a direction to performers, either written upon the staff , or indicated by the sign.
• TENDER
  A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. 3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. (more info) 1. One who tends; one who takes
• ASCENDANCY; ASCENDANCE
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• GODCHILD
  One for whom a person becomes sponsor at baptism, and whom he promises to see educated as a Christian; a godson or goddaughter. See Godfather.
• FACIEND
  The multiplicand. See Facient,
• EQUESTRIAN
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