Word Meanings - STABLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a stable manner; firmly; fixedly; steadily; as, a government stably settled.

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• STABLENESS
  The quality or state of being stable, or firmly established; stability.
• STABLEBOY; STABLEMAN
  A boy or man who attends in a stable; a groom; a hostler.
• SETTLEMENT
  A disposition of property for the benefit of some person or persons, usually through the medium of trustees, and for the benefit of a wife, children, or other relatives; jointure granted to a wife, or the act of granting it. 2. That which settles,
• STABLY
  In a stable manner; firmly; fixedly; steadily; as, a government stably settled.
• GOVERNMENTAL
  Pertaining to government; made by government; as, governmental duties.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• FIXEDLY
  In a fixed, stable, or constant manner.
• SETTLE
  1. A seat of any kind. "Upon the settle of his majesty" Hampole. 2. A bench; especially, a bench with a high back. 3. A place made lower than the rest; a wide step or platform lower than some other part. And from the bottom upon the ground, even
• STEADILY
  In a steady manner.
• STABLE STAND
  The position of a man who is found at his standing in the forest, with a crossbow or a longbow bent, ready to shoot at a deer, or close by a tree with greyhounds in a leash ready to slip; -- one of the four presumptions that a man intends stealing
• GOVERNMENT
  The influence of a word in regard to construction, requiring that another word should be in a particular case. (more info) 1. The act of governing; the exercise of authority; the administration of laws; control; direction; regulation; as, civil,
• FIRMLY
  In a firm manner.
• SETTLER
  1. One who settles, becomes fixed, established, etc. 2. Especially, one who establishes himself in a new region or a colony; a colonist; a planter; as, the first settlers of New England. 3. That which settles or finishes; hence, a blow, etc., which
• SETTLING
  That which settles at the bottom of a liquid; lees; dregs; sediment. Milton. Settling day, a day for settling accounts, as in the stock market. (more info) 1. The act of one who, or that which, settles; the act of establishing one's self,
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• MANNERED
  1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
• SETTLEDNESS
  The quality or state of being settled; confirmed state. Bp. Hall.
• MANNER
  manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner
• STABLER
  A stable keeper. De Foe.
• POSTABLE
  Capable of being carried by, or as by, post. W. Montagu.
• INTESTABLE
  Not capable of making a will; not legally qualified or competent to make a testament. Blackstone.
• DETESTABLY
  In a detestable manner.
• CONSTABLESS
  The wife of a constable.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• CONTESTABLE
  Capable of being contested; debatable.
• MISGOVERNMENT
  Bad government; want of government. Shak.
• THERMOSTABLE
  Capable of being heated to or somewhat above 55º C. without loss of special properties; -- said of immune substances, etc.
• INTASTABLE
  Incapable of being tasted; tasteless; unsavory. Grew.
• DISSETTLEMENT
  The act of unsettling, or the state of being unsettled. Marvell.
• UNCONTESTABLE
  Incontestable.
• OUTSETTLER
  One who settles at a distance, or away, from others.
• ACCOSTABLE
  Approachable; affable. Hawthorne.