Word Meanings - SPENSERIAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."

Related words: (words related to SPENSERIAN)

• APPLICABLE
  Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv.
• ENGLISHWOMAN
  Fem. of Englishman. Shak.
• APPLICATIVE
  Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv.
• SPECIFICALLY
  In a specific manner.
• APPLICANCY
  The quality or state of being applicable.
• ENGLISH
  A twist or spinning motion given to a ball in striking it that influences the direction it will take after touching a cushion or another ball. The King's, or Queen's, English. See under King. (more info) 1. Collectively, the people of England;
• APPLICABILITY
  The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied.
• APPLICATORILY
  By way of application.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• STANZA
  An apartment or division in a building; a room or chamber. (more info) stanza, i. e., a stop, fr. L. stans, p.pr. of stare to stand. See 1. A number of lines or verses forming a division of a song or poem, and agreeing in meter, rhyme, number of
• APPLICATE
  Applied or put to some use. Those applicate sciences which extend the power of man over the elements. I. Taylor. Applicate number , one which applied to some concrete case. -- Applicate ordinate, right line applied at right angles to the axis of
• APPLICATION
  1. The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb. 2. The thing applied. He invented a new application by which blood might be stanched. Johnson. 3. The act of applying as a means; the
• APPLIABLE
  Applicable; also, compliant. Howell.
• APPLIEDLY
  By application.
• ENGLISHRY
  1. The state or privilege of being an Englishman. Cowell. 2. A body of English or people of English descent; -- commonly applied to English people in Ireland. A general massacre of the Englishry. Macaulay.
• APPLIER
  He who, or that which, applies.
• ENGLISHABLE
  Capable of being translated into, or expressed in, English.
• APPLICATORY
  Having the property of applying; applicative; practical. -- n.
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• ENGLISHMAN
  A native or a naturalized inhabitant of England.
• UNAPPLIABLE
  Inapplicable. Milton.
• REAPPLICATION
  The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
• INAPPLICABILITY
  The quality of being inapplicable; unfitness; inapplicableness.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• MISAPPLICATION
  A wrong application. Sir T. Browne.