Word Meanings - STRINGENDO - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Urging or hastening the time, as to a climax.

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• URGE
  1. To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward. Through the thick deserts headlong urged his flight. Pope. 2. To press the mind or will of; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity. My brother never Did urge me in his
• URGENT
  Urging; pressing; besetting; plying, with importunity; calling for immediate attention; instantly important. "The urgent hour." Shak. Some urgent cause to ordain the contrary. Hooker. The Egyptians were urgent upon the people that they might send
• HASTENER
  1. One who hastens. 2. That which hastens; especially, a stand or reflector used for confining the heat of the fire to meat while roasting before it.
• HASTEN
  To press; to drive or urge forward; to push on; to precipitate; to accelerate the movement of; to expedite; to hurry. I would hasten my escape from the windy storm. Ps. lv. 8.
• CLIMAX
  A figure of which the parts of a sentence or paragraph are so arranged that each sicceeding one rise "Tribulation worketh patience, patience experience, and experience hope" -- a happy climax. J. D. Forbes. 3. The highest point; the greatest degree.
• URGENCE
  Urgency.
• URGENTLY
  In an urgent manner.
• URGER
  One who urges. Beau. & Fl.
• URGENCY
  The quality or condition of being urgent; insistence; pressure; as, the urgency of a demand or an occasion.
• EXPURGATORIAL
  Tending or serving to expurgate; expurgatory. Milman.
• LITURGIC; LITURGICAL
  Pertaining to, of or the nature of, a liturgy; of or pertaining to public prayer and worship. T. Warton.
• HIEROURGY
  A sacred or holy work or worship. Waterland.
• BURGLARIOUSLY
  With an intent to commit burglary; in the manner of a burglar. Blackstone.
• GURGE
  A whirlpool. The plain, wherein a black bituminous gurge Boils out from under ground. Milton.
• EXPURGATOR
  One who expurgates or purifies.
• WARBURG'S TINCTURE
  A preparation containing quinine and many other ingredients, often used in the treatment of malarial affections. It was invented by Dr. Warburg of London.
• BURGEOIS
  See BOURGEOUS
• PANURGIC
  Skilled in all kinds of work. "The panurgic Diderot." J. Morley.
• BURGONET
  A kind of helmet. Shak.
• BURGEE
  A swallow-tailed flag; a distinguishing pen (more info) 1. A kind of small coat.
• BURGHBRECH
  The offense of violating the pledge given by every inhabitant of a tithing to keep the peace; breach of the peace. Burrill. (more info) Law)
• EXPURGATE
  To purify; to clear from anything noxious, offensive, or erroneous; to cleanse; to purge; as, to expurgate a book. (more info) purify; ex out, from + purgare to cleanse, purify, purge. See Purge,
• BURGEON
  To bud. See Bourgeon.
• ASSURGENT
  Ascending;
• SPLURGE
  A blustering demonstration, or great effort; a great display. Bartlett.
• BOURGEOIS
  A size of type between long primer and brevier. See Type. Note: This line is printed in bourgeois type. (more info) fr. F. bourgeois of the middle class; hence applied to an intermediate size of type between brevier and long primer: cf. G.
• THAUMATURGICS
  Feats of legerdemain, or magical performances.
• INGURGITATE
  1. To swallow, devour, or drink greedily or in large quantity; to guzzle. Cleveland. 2. To swallow up, as in a gulf. Fotherby.
• PURGATORY
  Tending to cleanse; cleansing; expiatory. Burke.