Word Meanings - TRALATITIOUSLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

, adv. In a tralatitious manner; metephorically. Holder.

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• TRALATITIOUS
  1. Passed along; handed down; transmitted. Among biblical critics a tralatitious interpretation is one received by expositor from expositor. W. Withington. 2. Metaphorical; figurative; not literal. Stackhouse.
• HOLDER-FORTH
  One who speaks in public; an haranguer; a preacher. Addison.
• HOLDER
  One who is employed in the hold of a vessel.
• 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
• TRALATITIOUSLY
  , adv. In a tralatitious manner; metephorically. Holder.
• 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
• 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
• MANNERCHOR
  A German men's chorus or singing club.
• MANNERLY
  Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.
• COPYHOLDER
  One possessed of land in copyhold. A device for holding copy for a compositor. One who reads copy to a proof reader.
• HIGH-HOLDER
  The flicker; -- called also high-hole.
• BEHOLDER
  One who beholds; a spectator.
• OFFICEHOLDER
  An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• CANDLEHOLDER
  One who, or that which, holds a candle; also, one who assists another, but is otherwise not of importance. Shak.
• BOOKHOLDER
  1. A prompter at a theater. Beau & Fl. 2. A support for a book, holding it open, while one reads or copies from it.
• BONDHOLDER
  A person who holds the bonds of a public or private corporation for the payment of money at a certain time.
• INNHOLDER
  One who keeps an inn.
• STAKEHOLDER
  The holder of a stake; one with whom the bets are deposited when a wager is laid.
• PENHOLDER
  A handle for a pen.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• STOCKHOLDER
  One who is a holder or proprietor of stock in the public funds, or in the funds of a bank or other stock company.
• LANDHOLDER
  A holder, owner, or proprietor of land. -- Land"hold`ing, n. & a.