Word Meanings - SEEMLYHED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Comely or decent appearance. Rom. of R. Spenser.

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• COMELY
  comeliche, AS. cymlic; cyme suitable + 1. Pleasing or agreeable to the sight; well-proportioned; good- looking; handsome. He that is comely when old and decrepit, surely was very beautiful when he was young. South. Not once perceive their foul
• DECENT
  fitting or becoming; akin to decus glory, honor, ornament, Gr. d to grant, to give; and perh. akin to E. attire, tire: cf. F. décent. Cf. 1. Suitable in words, behavior, dress, or ceremony; becoming; fit; decorous; proper; seemly; as,
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• APPEARANCE
  The coming into court of either of the parties; the being present in court; the coming into court of a party summoned in an action, either by himself or by his attorney, expressed by a formal entry by the proper officer to that effect; the act or
• DECENTRALIZE
  To prevent from centralizing; to cause to withdraw from the center or place of concentration; to divide and distribute (what has been united or concentrated); -- esp. said of authority, or the administration of public affairs.
• DECENTRALIZATION
  The action of decentralizing, or the state of being decentralized. "The decentralization of France." J. P. Peters.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• REAPPEARANCE
  A second or new appearance; the act or state of appearing again.
• DISAPPEARANCE
  The act of disappearing; cessation of appearance; removal from sight; vanishing. Addison.
• INDECENT
  Not decent; unfit to be seen or heard; offensive to modesty and delicacy; as, indecent language. Cowper. Syn. -- Unbecoming; indecorous; indelicate; unseemly; immodest; gross; shameful; impure; improper; obscene; filthy.
• NONAPPEARANCE
  Default of apperance, as in court, to prosecute or defend; failure to appear.
• UNCOMELY
  Not comely. -- adv. In an uncomely manner. 1 Cor. vii. 36.
• INDECENTLY
  In an indecent manner.
• WELCOMELY
  In a welcome manner.
• UNDECENT
  Indecent.