Word Meanings - STEVEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Voice; speech; language. Ye have as merry a steven As any angel hath that is in heaven. Chaucer. 2. An outcry; a loud call; a clamor. Spenser. To set steven, to make an appointment. They setten steven for to meet To playen at the

Additional info about word: STEVEN

1. Voice; speech; language. Ye have as merry a steven As any angel hath that is in heaven. Chaucer. 2. An outcry; a loud call; a clamor. Spenser. To set steven, to make an appointment. They setten steven for to meet To playen at the dice. Chaucer.

Related words: (words related to STEVEN)

• ANGELIC; ANGELICAL
  Belonging to, or proceeding from, angels; resembling, characteristic of, or partaking of the nature of, an angel; heavenly; divine. "Angelic harps." Thomson."Angelical actions." Hooker. The union of womanly tenderness and angelic patience. Macaulay.
• SPEECHLESS
  1. Destitute or deprived of the faculty of speech. 2. Not speaking for a time; dumb; mute; silent. Speechless with wonder, and half dead with fear. Addison. -- Speech"less*ly, adv. -- Speech"less*ness, n.
• CLAMOROUS
  Speaking and repeating loud words; full of clamor; calling or demanding loudly or urgently; vociferous; noisy; bawling; loud; turbulent. "My young ones were clamorous for a morning's excursion." Southey. -- Clam"or*ous*ly, adv. -- Clam"or*ous*ness,
• MERRY-ANDREW
  One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor. Note: This term is said to have originated from one Andrew Borde, an English physician of the 16th century, who
• SPEECHIFYING
  The dinner and speechifying . . . at the opening of the annual season for the buckhounds. M. Arnold.
• ANGELOT
  1. A French gold coin of the reign of Louis XI., bearing the image of St. Michael; also, a piece coined at Paris by the English under Henry
• ANGELIFY
  To make like an angel; to angelize. Farindon .
• SPEECHFUL
  Full of speech or words; voluble; loquacious.
• ANGELICA
  1. An aromatic umbelliferous plant (Archangelica officinalis or Angelica archangelica) the leaf stalks of which are sometimes candied and used in confectionery, and the roots and seeds as an aromatic tonic. 2. The candied leaf stalks of angelica.
• ANGELHOOD
  The state of being an angel; angelic nature. Mrs. Browning.
• ANGELOPHANY
  The actual appearance of an angel to man.
• SPEECHIFY
  To make a speech; to harangue.
• MERRYMAKING
  Making or producing mirth; convivial; jolly.
• ANGELET
  A small gold coin formerly current in England; a half angel. Eng. Cyc.
• APPOINTMENT
  The exercise of the power of designating (under a "power of appointment") a person to enjoy an estate or other specific property; also, the instrument by which the designation is made. 6. Equipment, furniture, as for a ship or an army; whatever
• STEVEN
  1. Voice; speech; language. Ye have as merry a steven As any angel hath that is in heaven. Chaucer. 2. An outcry; a loud call; a clamor. Spenser. To set steven, to make an appointment. They setten steven for to meet To playen at the
• ANGELICALLY
  Like an angel.
• HEAVEN
  hevan, LG. heben, heven, Icel. hifinn; of uncertain origin, cf. D. hemel, G. himmel, Icel. himmin, Goth. himins; perh. akin to, or influenced by, the root of E. heave, or from a root signifying to cover, cf. Goth. gaham to put on, clothe one's
• HEAVENLY
  1. Pertaining to, resembling, or inhabiting heaven; celestial; not earthly; as, heavenly regions; heavenly music. As is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. 1 Cor. xv.
• MERRY
  mirie, murie, merry, pleasant, AS. merge, myrige, pleasant; cf. murge, adv.; prob. akin to OHG. murg, short, Goth. gamaúrgjan to shorten; cf. L. murcus a coward, who cuts off his thumb to escape military service; the Anglo-Saxon and
• OVERLANGUAGED
  Employing too many words; diffuse. Lowell.
• INVOICE
  A written account of the particulars of merchandise shipped or sent to a purchaser, consignee, factor, etc., with the value or prices and charges annexed. Wharton. 2. The lot or set of goods as shipped or received; as, the merchant receives a large
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• PREAPPOINTMENT
  Previous appointment.
• EVANGELICISM
  Evangelical principles; evangelism.