Word Meanings - REFIX - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To fix again or anew; to establish anew. Fuller.
Related words: (words related to REFIX)
- AGAINSTAND
To withstand. - AGAINSAY
To gainsay. Wyclif. - FULLER
One whose occupation is to full cloth. Fuller's earth, a variety of clay, used in scouring and cleansing cloth, to imbibe grease. -- Fuller's herb , the soapwort , formerly used to remove stains from cloth. -- Fuller's thistle or weed - AGAIN
again; on + geán, akin to Ger. gegewn against, Icel. gegn. Cf. 1. In return, back; as, bring us word again. 2. Another time; once more; anew. If a man die, shall he live again Job xiv. 14. 3. Once repeated; -- of quantity; as, as large again, - ESTABLISHMENTARIAN
One who regards the Church primarily as an establishment formed by the State, and overlooks its intrinsic spiritual character. Shipley. - ESTABLISH
L. stabilire, fr. stabilis firm, steady, stable. See Stable, a., - 1. To make stable or firm; to fix immovably or firmly; to set (a thing) in a place and make it stable there; to settle; to confirm. So were the churches established in the faith. - AGAINST
1. Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. Tyndale. 2. From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in - AGAIN; AGAINS
Against; also, towards . Albeit that it is again his kind. Chaucer. - ESTABLISHED SUIT
A plain suit in which a player could, except for trumping, take tricks with all his remaining cards. - FULLERY
The place or the works where the fulling of cloth is carried on. - AGAINWARD
Back again. - AGAINBUY
To redeem. Wyclif. - ESTABLISHER
One who establishes. - ESTABLISHMENT
1. The act of establishing; a ratifying or ordaining; settlement; confirmation. 2. The state of being established, founded, and the like; fixed state. 3. That which is established; as: A form of government, civil or ecclesiastical; especially, - THEREAGAIN
In opposition; against one's course. If that him list to stand thereagain. Chaucer. - PREESTABLISH
To establish beforehand. - DISESTABLISHMENT
1. The act or process of unsettling or breaking up that which has been established; specifically, the withdrawal of the support of the state from an established church; as, the disestablishment and disendowment of the Irish Church by - REESTABLISHER
One who establishes again. - REESTABLISH
To establish anew; to fix or confirm again; to restore; as, to reëstablish a covenant; to reëstablish health. - PREESTABLISHMENT
Settlement beforehand. - REESTABLISHMENT
The act reëstablishing; the state of being reëstablished. Addison. - DISESTABLISH
To unsettle; to break up ; to deprive, as a church, of its connection with the state. M. Arnold.