Word Meanings - VERSIFIER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. One who versifies, or makes verses; as, not every versifier is a poet. Dryden. 2. One who converts into verse; one who expresses in verse the ideas of another written in prose; as, Dr. Watts was a versifier of the Psalms.
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- PROSECUTE
To institute and carry on a legal prosecution; as, to prosecute for public offenses. Blackstone. (more info) 1. To follow after. Latimer. - VERSET
A verse. Milton. - PROSECUTRIX
A female prosecutor. - PROSENCEPHALON
The anterior segment of the brain, including the cerebrum and olfactory lobes; the forebrain. The cerebrum. Huxley. - ANOTHER-GUESS
Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot. - VERSEMAN
See PRIOR - EVERYWHERENESS
Ubiquity; omnipresence. Grew. - EVERYWHERE
In every place; in all places; hence, in every part; throughly; altogether. - PROSELYTISM
1. The act or practice of proselyting; the making of converts to a religion or a religious sect, or to any opinion, system, or party. They were possessed of a spirit of proselytism in the most fanatical degree. Burke. 2. Conversion to a religion, - PROSECUTABLE
Capable of being prosecuted; liable to prosecution. - PROSENCHYMA
A general term applied to the tissues formed of elongated cells, especially those with pointed or oblique extremities, as the principal cells of ordinary wood. - PROSEMAN
A writer of prose. - PROSELYTE
A new convert especially a convert to some religion or religious sect, or to some particular opinion, system, or party; thus, a Gentile converted to Judaism, or a pagan converted to Christianity, is a proselyte. Ye compass sea and land to make - MAKESHIFT
That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot. - PROSECTOR
One who makes dissections for anatomical illustration; usually, the assistant of a professional anatomist. - VERSEMONGER
A writer of verses; especially, a writer of commonplace poetry; a poetaster; a rhymer; -- used humorously or in contempt. - 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, - WRITTEN
p. p. of Write, v. - EVERYONE
Everybody; -- commonly separated, every one. - EVERYDAY
Used or fit for every day; common; usual; as, an everyday suit or clothes. The mechanical drudgery of his everyday employment. Sir. J. Herchel. - CONTROVERSER
A disputant. - REVERSED
Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree. Reversed positive or negative , a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. Abney. (more info) 1. Turned side for side, - AVERSENESS
The quality of being averse; opposition of mind; unwillingness. - NON PROSEQUITUR
A judgment entered against the plaintiff in a suit where he does not appear to prosecute. See Nolle prosequi. - RENVERSEMENT
A reversing. - TRAVERSE
Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as, paths cut with traverse trenches. Oak . . . being strong in all positions, may be better trusted in cross and traverse work. Sir H. Wotton. The ridges of the fallow field traverse. - INTERTRANSVERSE
Between the transverse processes of the vertebræ. - REVERY
See REVERIE - UNIVERSE
All created things viewed as constituting one system or whole; the whole body of things, or of phenomena; the mundus of the Latins; the world; creation. How may I Adore thee, Author of this universe And all this good to man! Milton. (more info) - INVERSE
Inverted; having a position or mode of attachment the reverse of that which is usual. (more info) 1. Opposite in order, relation, or effect; reversed; inverted; reciprocal; -- opposed to direct. - AVERSE
1. Turned away or backward. The tracks averse a lying notice gave, And led the searcher backward from the cave. Dryden. 2. Having a repugnance or opposition of mind; disliking; disinclined; unwilling; reluctant. Averse alike to flatter, or offend.