Word Meanings - UNDERPOSSESSOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who possesses or holds anything subject to the superior of another. Jer. Taylor.

Related words: (words related to UNDERPOSSESSOR)

• 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.
• ANYTHINGARIAN
  One who holds to no particular creed or dogma.
• SUBJECTLESS
  Having no subject.
• SUBJECTIVE
  Modified by, or making prominent, the individuality of a writer or an artist; as, a subjective drama or painting; a subjective writer. Syn. -- See Objective. Subjective sensation , one of the sensations occurring when stimuli due to internal causes
• SUBJECT-MATTER
  The matter or thought presented for consideration in some statement or discussion; that which is made the object of thought or study. As to the subject-matter, words are always to be understood as having a regard thereto. Blackstone. As science
• SUPERIORLY
  In a superior position or manner.
• TAYLOR-WHITE PROCESS
  A process (invented about 1899 by Frederick W. Taylor and Maunsel B. White) for giving toughness to self-hardening steels. The steel is heated almost to fusion, cooled to a temperature of from 700º to 850º C. in molten lead, further cooled in
• SUPERIORITY
  The quality, state, or condition of being superior; as, superiority of rank; superiority in merit. Syn. -- Preëminence; excellence; predominancy; prevalence; ascendency; odds; advantage.
• ANOTHER
  1. One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect. Another yet! -- a seventh! I 'll see no more. Shak. Would serve to scale another Hero's tower. Shak. 2. Not the same; different. He winks,
• SUBJECT
  first part is L. subtus below, fr. sub under), subgiet, subject, F. sujet, from L. subjectus lying under, subjected, p.p. of subjicere, subicere, to throw, lay, place, or bring under; sub under + jacere to 1. Placed or situated under; lying below,
• SUBJECTIVITY
  The quality or state of being subjective; character of the subject.
• SUPERIORESS
  A woman who acts as chief in a convent, abbey, or nunnery; a lady superior.
• ANOTHER-GAINES
  Of another kind. Sir P. Sidney.
• SUBJECTIVISM
  Any philosophical doctrine which refers all knowledge to, and founds it upon, any subjective states; egoism.
• SUBJECTIVIST
  One who holds to subjectivism; an egoist.
• SUBJECTED
  1. Subjacent. "Led them direct . . . to the subjected plain." Milton. 2. Reduced to subjection; brought under the dominion of another. 3. Exposed; liable; subject; obnoxious.
• ANOTHER-GATES
  Of another sort. "Another-gates adventure." Hudibras.
• INSUBJECTION
  Want of subjection or obedience; a state of disobedience, as to government.
• RESUBJECTION
  A second subjection.