Word Meanings - SIGILLARIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Little images or figures of earthenware exposed for sale, or given as presents, on the last two days of the Saturnalia; hence, the last two, or the sixth and seventh, days of the Saturnalia.
Related words: (words related to SIGILLARIA)
- EXPOSER
One who exposes or discloses. - EXPOSTULATOR
One who expostulates. Lamb. - EXPOSITION
1. The act of exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view. 2. The act of expounding or of laying open the sense or meaning of an author, or a passage; explanation; interpretation; the sense put upon a passage; a law, or - LITTLENESS
The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. Syn. -- Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness. - EXPOSEDNESS
The state of being exposed, laid open, or unprotected; as, an exposedness to sin or temptation. - SATURNALIA
the festival of Saturn, celebrated in December, originally during one day, but afterward during seven days, as a period of unrestrained license and merriment for all classes, extending even to the slaves. 2. Hence: A period or occasion of general - EXPOSTULATE
To reason earnestly with a person on some impropriety of his conduct, representing the wrong he has done or intends, and urging him to make redress or to desist; to remonstrate; -- followed by with. Men expostulate with erring friends; they bring - EXPOSE
1. To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection. Those who seek truth only, freely expose their principles to the test, and are pleased to have them - LITTLE-EASE
An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison. Latimer. - EXPOSITOR
One who, or that which, expounds or explains; an expounder; a commentator. Bp. Horsley. - SATURNALIAN
1. Of or pertaining to the Saturnalia. 2. Of unrestrained and intemperate jollity; riotously merry; dissolute. "Saturnalian amusement." Burke. - EXPOSTULATION
The act of expostulating or reasoning with a person in opposition to some impropriety of conduct; remonstrance; earnest and kindly protest; dissuasion. We must use expostulation kindly. Shak. - HENCE
ending; cf. -wards), also hen, henne, hennen, heonnen, heonene, AS. heonan, heonon, heona, hine; akin to OHG. hinnan, G. hinnen, OHG. 1. From this place; away. "Or that we hence wend." Chaucer. Arise, let us go hence. John xiv. 31. I will send - EXPOSITORY
Pertaining to, or containing, exposition; serving to explain; explanatory; illustrative; exegetical. A glossary or expository index to the poetical writers. Johnson. - GIVEN
p. p. & a. from Give, v. - SEVENTHLY
In the seventh place. - EXPOST FACTO; EXPOSTFACTO
From or by an after act, or thing done afterward; in consequence of a subsequent act; retrospective. Ex post facto law, a law which operates by after enactment. The phrase is popularly applied to any law, civil or criminal, which is enacted with - EXPOSTURE
Exposure. Shak. - EXPOSTULATORY
Containing expostulation or remonstrance; as, an expostulatory discourse or letter. - SIXTH
1. First after the fifth; next in order after the fifth. 2. Constituting or being one of six equal parts into which anything is divided. - HEREHENCE
From hence. - WHENCEFORTH
From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser. - DO-LITTLE
One who performs little though professing much. Great talkers are commonly dolittles. Bp. Richardson. - THENCEFROM
From that place. - WIDMANSTATTEN FIGURES; WIDMANSTAETTEN FIGURES
Certain figures appearing on etched meteoric iron; -- so called after A. B. Widmanstätten, of Vienna, who first described them in 1808. See the Note and Illust. under Meteorite. - MISEXPOSITION
Wrong exposition. - THENCE
see -wards) thennes, thannes , AS. thanon, thanan, thonan; akin to OHG. dannana, dannan, danan, and G. 1. From that place. "Bid him thence go." Chaucer. When ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Mark - INEXPOSURE
A state of not being exposed. - ARCHENCEPHALA
The division that includes man alone. R. Owen. - THENCEFORTH
From that time; thereafter. If the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted it is thenceforth good for nothing. Matt. v. 13. Note: This word is sometimes preceded by from, -- a redundancy sanctioned by custom. Chaucer. John. xix. 12.