Word Meanings - RHETORICATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To play the orator. South.
Related words: (words related to RHETORICATE)
- SOUTHWEST
Pertaining to, or in the direction of, the southwest; proceeding toward the southwest; coming from the southwest; as, a southwest wind. - SOUTHSAY
See SOOTHSAY - SOUTHWESTERLY
To ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind. - SOUTHPAW
A pitcher who pitches with the left hand. - SOUTHERNLINESS
Southerliness. - SOUTHREN
Southern. "I am a Southren man." Chaucer. - SOUTHSAYER
See SOOTHSAYER - SOUTH; SOUTHERLY
the old squaw; -- so called in imitation of its cry. Called also southerly, and southerland. See under Old. - SOUTHING
Distance of any heavenly body south of the equator; south declination; south latitude. (more info) 1. Tendency or progress southward; as, the southing of the sun. Emerson. 2. The time at which the moon, or other heavenly body, passes the meridian - ORATORY
A place of orisons, or prayer; especially, a chapel or small room set apart for private devotions. An oratory . . . in worship of Dian. Chaucer. Do not omit thy prayers for want of a good oratory, or place to pray in. Jer. Taylor. Fathers of the - SOUTHERN
A Southerner. - SOUTHNESS
A tendency in the end of a magnetic needle to point toward the south pole. Faraday. - ORATORIO
A more or less dramatic text or poem, founded on some Scripture nerrative, or great divine event, elaborately set to music, in recitative, arias, grand choruses, etc., to be sung with an orchestral accompaniment, but without action, scenery, or - SOUTHEASTERN
Of or pertaining to the southeast; southeasterly. - SOUTHWESTWARD; SOUTHWESTWARDLY
Toward the southwest. - SOUTHER
A strong wind, gale, or storm from the south. - SOUTHERLINESS
The quality or state of being southerly; direction toward the south. - SOUTHERNWOOD
A shrubby species of wormwood having aromatic foliage. It is sometimes used in making beer. - SOUTHCOTTIAN
A follower of Joanna Southcott , an Englishwoman who, professing to have received a miraculous calling, preached and prophesied, and committed many impious absurdities. - ORATORIAL
Oratorical. Swift. --Or`a*to"ri*al*ly, adv. - AMELIORATOR
One who ameliorates. - IMPLORATORY
Supplicatory; entreating. Carlyle. - EDULCORATOR
A contrivance used to supply small quantities of sweetened liquid, water, etc., to any mixture, or to test tubes, etc.; a dropping bottle. - MORATORIUM
A period during which an obligor has a legal right to delay meeting an obligation, esp. such a period granted, as to a bank, by a moratory law. - MELIORATOR
One who meliorates. - EVAPORATOR
An apparatus for condensing vegetable juices, or for drying fruit by heat. - MORATORY
Of or pertaining to delay; esp., designating a law passed, as in a time of financial panic, to postpone or delay for a period the time at which notes, bills of exchange, and other obligations, shall mature or become due. - LABORATORY
The workroom of a chemist; also, a place devoted to experiments in any branch of natural science; as, a chemical, physical, or biological laboratory. Hence, by extension, a place where something is prepared, or some operation is performed; as, the - ELABORATOR
One who, or that which, elaborates. - RESTORATORY
Restorative. - CORROBORATORY
Tending to strengthen; corroborative; as, corroboratory facts. - ELABORATORY
Tending to elaborate.