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Word Meanings - SCHATCHEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A person whose business is marriage brokage; a marriage broker, esp. among certain Jews.

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  • WHOSESOEVER
    The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever.
  • BROKERY
    The business of a broker. And with extorting, cozening, forfeiting, And tricks belonging unto brokery. Marlowe.
  • PERSONNEL
    The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel.
  • PERSONIFICATION
    A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying;
  • BUSINESS
    The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. Wycherley. -- To make one's
  • BROKAGE
    See BROKERAGE
  • PERSONIZE
    To personify. Milton has personized them. J. Richardson.
  • PERSONATE
    To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. In fable, hymn, or song so personating Their gods ridiculous. Milton.
  • PERSONATOR
    One who personates. "The personators of these actions." B. Jonson.
  • BROKERAGE
    1. The business or employment of a broker. Burke. 2. The fee, reward, or commission, given or changed for transacting business as a broker.
  • PERSONAL
    Denoting person; as, a personal pronoun. Personal action , a suit or action by which a man claims a debt or personal duty, or damages in lieu of it; or wherein he claims satisfaction in damages for an injury to his person or property,
  • PERSONIFY
    1. To regard, treat, or represent as a person; to represent as a rational being. The poets take the liberty of personifying inanimate things. Chesterfield. 2. To be the embodiment or personification of; to impersonate; as, he personifies the law.
  • CERTAINTY
    Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity. Of a certainty, certainly. (more info) 1. The quality, state, or condition, of being certain. The certainty of punishment is the truest security against crimes. Fisher Ames. 2. A fact or truth
  • PERSONIFIER
    One who personifies.
  • BUSINESSLIKE
    In the manner of one transacting business wisely and by right methods.
  • PERSONA
    See 8
  • PERSONABLE
    1. Having a well-formed body, or person; graceful; comely; of good appearance; presentable; as, a personable man or woman. Wise, warlike, personable, courteous, and kind. Spenser. The king, . . . so visited with sickness, was not personable. E.
  • PERSONALLY
    1. In a personal manner; by bodily presence; in person; not by representative or substitute; as, to deliver a letter personally. He, being cited, personally came not. Grafton. 2. With respect to an individual; as regards the person; individually;
  • MARRIAGEABILITY
    The quality or state of being marriageable.
  • BROKERLY
    Mean; servile. B. Jonson.
  • ASCERTAINMENT
    The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke.
  • ASCERTAINABLE
    That may be ascertained. -- As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness, n. -- As`cer*tain"a*bly, adv.
  • UNIPERSONAL
    Used in only one person, especially only in the third person, as some verbs; impersonal. (more info) 1. Existing as one, and only one, person; as, a unipersonal God.
  • UNCERTAINTY
    1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.
  • UNIPERSONALIST
    One who believes that the Deity is unipersonal.
  • TRIPERSONALITY
    The state of existing as three persons in one Godhead; trinity.
  • IMPERSONATION; IMPERSONIFICATION
    The act of impersonating; personification; investment with personality; representation in a personal form.
  • TRIPERSONAL
    Consisting of three persons. Milton.
  • MONOPERSONAL
    Having but one person, or form of existence.
  • UNCERTAINLY
    In an uncertain manner.

 

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