Word Meanings - TEMPTATIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Tempting.

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• TEMPTER
  One who tempts or entices; especially, Satan, or the Devil, regarded as the great enticer to evil. "Those who are bent to do wickedly will never want tempters to urge them on." Tillotson. So glozed the Tempter, and his proem tuned. Milton.
• TEMPTING
  Adapted to entice or allure; attractive; alluring; seductive; enticing; as, tempting pleasures. -- Tempt"ing*ly, adv. -- Tempt"ing*ness, n.
• TEMPTABILITY
  The quality or state of being temptable; lability to temptation.
• TEMPTRESS
  A woman who entices. She was my temptress, the foul provoker. Sir W. Scott.
• TEMPTATIONLESS
  Having no temptation or motive; as, a temptationless sin. Hammond.
• TEMPTATION
  1. The act of tempting, or enticing to evil; seduction. When the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from him for a season. Luke iv. 13. 2. The state of being tempted, or enticed to evil. Lead us not into temptation. Luke xi. 4. 3.
• TEMPT
  tentare, temptare, to handle, feel, attack, to try, put to the test, urge, freq. from tendere, tentum, and tensum, to stretch. See Thin, 1. To put to trial; to prove; to test; to try. God did tempt Abraham. Gen. xxii. 1. Ye shall not tempt the
• TEMPTABLE
  Capable of being tempted; liable to be tempted. Cudworth.
• TEMPTATIOUS
  Tempting.
• METEMPTOSIS
  The suppression of a day in the calendar to prevent the date of the new moon being set a day too late, or the suppression of the bissextile day once in 134 years. The opposite to this is the proemptosis, or the addition of a day every 330 years,
• CONTEMPTIBLY
  In a contemptible manner.
• CONTEMPTUOUSLY
  In a contemptuous manner; with scorn or disdain; despitefully. The apostles and most eminent Christians were poor, and used contemptuously. Jer. Taylor.
• OVERTEMPT
  To tempt exceedingly, or beyond the power of resistance. Milton.
• ATTEMPTER
  1. One who attempts; one who essays anything. 2. An assailant; also, a temper.
• CONTEMPTUOUS
  Manifecting or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; haughty; insolent; disdainful. A proud, contemptious behavior. Hammond. Savage invectiveand contemptuous sarcasm. Macaulay. Rome . . . entertained the most contemptuous opinion of the Jews.
• CONTEMPT
  Disobedience of the rules, orders, or process of a court of justice, or of rules or orders of a legislative body; disorderly, contemptuous, or insolent language or behavior in presence of a court, tending to disturb its proceedings, or impair the
• CONTEMPTIBLENESS
  The state or quality of being contemptible, or of being despised.
• ATTEMPTABLE
  Capable of being attempted, tried, or attacked. Shak.
• ATTEMPTIVE
  Disposed to attempt; adventurous. Daniel.
• ATTEMPT
  fr. L. attentare to attempt; ad + tentare, temptare, to touch, try, 1. To make trial or experiment of; to try; to endeavor to do or perform ; to assay; as, to attempt to sing; to attempt a bold flight. Something attempted, something done, Has
• CONTEMPTIBLE
  1. Worthy of contempt; deserving of scorn or disdain; mean; vile; despicable. Milton. The arguments of tyranny are ascontemptible as its force is dreadful. Burke. 2. Despised; scorned; neglected; abject. Locke. 3. Insolent; scornful; contemptuous.
• REATTEMPT
  To attempt again.
• UNTEMPTER
  One who does not tempt, or is not a tempter. Wyclif.