Word Meanings - ROBUSTIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Robust. W. Irving. In Scotland they had handled the bishops in a more robustious manner. Milton. -- Ro*bus"tious*ly, adv. -- Ro*bus"tious*ness, n.

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• HANDLING
  The mode of using the pencil or brush, etc.; style of touch. Fairholt. (more info) 1. A touching, controlling, managing, using, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands. See Handle, v. t. The heavens and your fair handling Have made you
• HANDLESS
  Without a hand. Shak.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• HANDLE
  1. To touch; to feel with the hand; to use or hold with the hand. Handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh. Luke xxiv. 39. About his altar, handling holy things. Milton. 2. To manage in using, as a spade or a musket; to wield; often, to
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• ROBUSTIOUS
  Robust. W. Irving. In Scotland they had handled the bishops in a more robustious manner. Milton. -- Ro*bus"tious*ly, adv. -- Ro*bus"tious*ness, n.
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• IRVINGITE
  The common designation of one a sect founded by the Rev. Edward Irving , who call themselves the Catholic Apostolic Church. They are highly ritualistic in worship, have an elaborate hierarchy of apostles, prophets, etc., and look for the speedy
• HANDLEABLE
  Capable of being handled.
• ROBUST
  strength, a very hard kind of oak; cf. Skr. rabhas violence: cf. F. 1. Evincing strength; indicating vigorous health; strong; sinewy; muscular; vigorous; sound; as, a robust body; robust youth; robust health. 2. Violent; rough; rude.
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• ROBUSTNESS
  The quality or state of being robust.
• MANNERED
  1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
• MANNER
  manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner
• ROBUSTLY
  In a robust manner.
• MANNERCHOR
  A German men's chorus or singing club.
• MANNERLY
  Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.
• CHANDLER
  of candles, LL. candelarius chandler, fr. L. candela candle. See 1. A maker or seller of candles. The chandler's basket, on his shoulder borne, With tallow spots thy coat. Gay. 2. A dealer in other commodities, which are indicated by
• ASCITITIOUS
  Supplemental; not inherent or original; adscititious; additional; assumed. Homer has been reckoned an ascititious name. Pope.
• CONCUPISCENTIOUS
  Concupiscent.
• INFECTIOUSLY
  In an infectious manner. Shak.
• COMBUSTIOUS
  Inflammable. Shak.
• VITIOUS; VITIOUSLY; VITIOUSNESS
  See VICIOUSNESS
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• FACTIOUS
  1. Given to faction; addicted to form parties and raise dissensions, in opposition to government or the common good; turbulent; seditious; prone to clamor against public measures or men; -- said of persons. Factious for the house of Lancaster.
• NIRVANA
  In the Buddhist system of religion, the final emancipation of the soul from transmigration, and consequently a beatific enfrachisement from the evils of wordly existence, as by annihilation or absorption into the divine. See Buddhism.
• INIMICITIOUS
  Inimical; unfriendly. Sterne.
• TRALATITIOUS
  1. Passed along; handed down; transmitted. Among biblical critics a tralatitious interpretation is one received by expositor from expositor. W. Withington. 2. Metaphorical; figurative; not literal. Stackhouse.
• EMISSITIOUS
  Looking, or narrowly examining; prying. "Those emissitious eyes." Bp. Hall.
• INCAUTIOUS
  Not cautious; not circumspect; not attending to the circumstances on which safety and interest depend; heedless; careless; as, an incautious step; an incautious remark. You . . . incautious tread On fire with faithless embers overspread. Francis.
• CONTENTIOUS
  Contested; litigated; litigious; having power to decide controversy. Contentious jurisdiction , jurisdiction over matters in controversy between parties, in contradistinction to voluntary jurisdiction, or that exercised upon matters not opposed
• CAPTIOUSNESS
  Captious disposition or manner.
• AMBITIOUSNESS
  The quality of being ambitious; ambition; pretentiousness.
• ARREPTITIOUS
  Snatched away; seized or possessed, as a demoniac; raving; mad; crack-brained. Odd, arreptitious, frantic extravagances. Howell.
• COLLATITIOUS
  Brought together; contributed; done by contributions. Bailey.
• DIREPTITIOUSLY
  With plundering violence; by violent injustice. Strype.