Word Meanings - TRIBUTARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Paying tribute to another, either from compulsion, as an acknowledgment of submission, or to secure protection, or for the purpose of purchasing peace. unto Rome made them tributary. Chaucer. 2. Hence, subject; subordinate; inferior. He to grace

Additional info about word: TRIBUTARY

1. Paying tribute to another, either from compulsion, as an acknowledgment of submission, or to secure protection, or for the purpose of purchasing peace. unto Rome made them tributary. Chaucer. 2. Hence, subject; subordinate; inferior. He to grace his tributary gods. Milton. 3. Paid in tribute. "Tributary tears." Shak. 4. Yielding supplies of any kind; serving to form or make up, a greater object of the same kind, as a part, branch, etc.; contributing; as, the Ohio has many tributary streams, and is itself tributary to the Mississippi.

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• PAYEE
  The person to whom money is to be, or has been, paid; the person named in a bill or note, to whom, or to whose order, the amount is promised or directed to be paid. See Bill of exchange, under Bill.
• PAYABLE
  1. That may, can, or should be paid; suitable to be paid; justly due. Drayton. Thanks are a tribute payable by the poorest. South. That may be discharged or settled by delivery of value. Matured; now due.
• PURPOSELESS
  Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.
• SUBJECTION
  1. The act of subjecting, or of bringing under the dominion of another; the act of subduing. The conquest of the kingdom, and subjection of the rebels. Sir M. Hale. 2. The state of being subject, or under the power, control, and government
• SUBJECTIST
  One skilled in subjective philosophy; a subjectivist.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• SUBJECTNESS
  Quality of being subject.
• INFERIORLY
  In an inferior manner, or on the inferior part.
• GRACE
  The divine favor toward man; the mercy of God, as distinguished from His justice; also, any benefits His mercy imparts; divine love or pardon; a state of acceptance with God; enjoyment of the divine favor. And if by grace, then is it no more of
• PEACEBREAKER
  One who disturbs the public peace. -- Peace"break`ing, n.
• GRACEFUL
  Displaying grace or beauty in form or action; elegant; easy; agreeable in appearance; as, a graceful walk, deportment, speaker, air, act, speech. High o'er the rest in arms the graceful Turnus rode. Dryden. -- Grace"ful*ly, adv. Grace"ful*ness, n.
• PURCHASE
  purchacier, to pursue, to seek eagerly, F. pourchasser; OF. pour, 1. To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire. Chaucer. That loves the thing he can not purchase. Spenser. Your accent is Something finer than you could
• PURPOSE
  1. That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure, or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; plan. He will his firste purpos modify. Chaucer.
• GRACELESS
  1. Wanting in grace or excellence; departed from, or deprived of, divine grace; hence, depraved; corrupt. "In a graceless age." Milton. 2. Unfortunate. Cf. Grace, n., 4. Chaucer. -- Grace"less*ly, adv. -- Grace"less-ness, n.
• PURCHASABLE
  Capable of being bought, purchased, or obtained for a consideration; hence, venal; corrupt. Money being the counterbalance to all things purchasable by it, as much as you take off from the value of money, so much you add to the price of
• SECURER
  One who, or that which, secures.
• PAYSE
  To poise. Spenser.
• SECURENESS
  The condition or quality of being secure; exemption from fear; want of vigilance; security.
• PAYNE'S PROCESS
  A process for preserving timber and rendering it incombustible by impregnating it successively with solutions of sulphate of iron and calcium chloride in vacuo. --Payn"ize, v. t.
• PAYNDEMAIN
  The finest and whitest bread made in the Middle Ages; -- called also paynemain, payman. (more info) own, private. See Payn, and Demesne. Said to be so called from the
• REPAYMENT
  1. The act of repaying; reimbursement. Jer. Taylor. 2. The money or other thing repaid.
• HEREHENCE
  From hence.
• INSUBORDINATE
  Not submitting to authority; disobedient; rebellious; mutinous
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• MORTPAY
  Dead pay; the crime of taking pay for the service of dead soldiers, or for services not actually rendered by soldiers. Bacon.
• TAXPAYER
  One who is assessed and pays a tax.
• THENCEFROM
  From that place.
• CONTRIBUTARY
  1. Contributory. 2. Tributary; contributing. It was situated on the Ganges, at the place where this river received a contributary stream. D'Anville .