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Word Meanings - REVISORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having the power or purpose to revise; revising. Story.

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  • HAVENED
    Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
  • HAVENER
    A harbor master.
  • PURPOSELESS
    Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.
  • STORY-WRITER
    1. One who writes short stories, as for magazines. 2. An historian; a chronicler. "Rathums, the story-writer." 1 Esdr. ii. 17.
  • 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
  • POWERABLE
    1. Capable of being effected or accomplished by the application of power; possible. J. Young. 2. Capable of exerting power; powerful. Camden.
  • HAVELOCK
    A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
  • STORYBOOK
    A book containing stories, or short narratives, either true or false.
  • PURPOSE
    1. That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure, or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; plan. He will his firste purpos modify. Chaucer.
  • HAVE
    haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
  • HAVENAGE
    Harbor dues; port dues.
  • REVISION
    1. The act of revising; reëxamination for correction; review; as, the revision of a book or writing, or of a proof sheet; a revision of statutes. 2. That which is made by revising. Syn. -- Reëxamination; revisal; revise; review.
  • HAVEN
    habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor;
  • HAVANA
    Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n.
  • HAVERSIAN
    Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.
  • REVISIONAL; REVISIONARY
    Of or pertaining to revision; revisory.
  • STORY-TELLER
    1. One who tells stories; a narrator of anecdotes,incidents, or fictitious tales; as, an amusing story-teller. 2. An historian; -- in contempt. Swift. 3. A euphemism or child's word for "a liar."
  • REVISE
    To compare with a previous proof of the same matter, and mark again such errors as have not been corrected in the type. 3. To review, alter, and amend; as, to revise statutes; to revise an agreement; to revise a dictionary. The Revised Version
  • REVISAL
    The act of revising, or reviewing and reëxamining for correction and improvement; revision; as, the revisal of a manuscript; the revisal of a proof sheet; the revisal of a treaty.
  • HAVING
    Possession; goods; estate. I 'll lend you something; my having is not much. Shak.
  • CANDLE POWER
    Illuminating power, as of a lamp, or gas flame, reckoned in terms of the light of a standard candle.
  • MISBEHAVE
    To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
  • IMPOWER
    See EMPOWER
  • INSHAVE
    A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
  • CLERESTORY
    See CLEARSTORY
  • FALDISTORY
    The throne or seat of a bishop within the chancel. (more info) faldstuol; faldan, faltan, to fold + stuol stool. So called because it could be folded or laid together. See Fold, and
  • CROSS-PURPOSE
    A conversational game, in which questions and answers are made so as to involve ludicrous combinations of ideas. Pepys. To be at cross-purposes, to misunderstand or to act counter to one another without intending it; -- said of persons. (more info)
  • DISPURPOSE
    To dissuade; to frustrate; as, to dispurpose plots. A. Brewer.
  • POLICE POWER
    The inherent power of a government to regulate its police affairs. The term police power is not definitely fixed in meaning. In the earlier cases in the United States it was used as including the whole power of internal government, or the powers
  • DISEMPOWER
    To deprive of power; to divest of strength. H. Bushnell.

 

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