Word Meanings - SCHATCHEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A person whose business is marriage brokage; a marriage broker, esp. among certain Jews.
Related words: (words related to SCHATCHEN)
- 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.