Word Meanings - VINDICATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. To lay claim to; to assert a right to; to claim. Is thine alone the seed that strews the plain The birds of heaven shall vindicate their grain. Pope. 2. To maintain or defend with success; to prove to be valid; to assert convincingly; to sustain
Additional info about word: VINDICATE
1. To lay claim to; to assert a right to; to claim. Is thine alone the seed that strews the plain The birds of heaven shall vindicate their grain. Pope. 2. To maintain or defend with success; to prove to be valid; to assert convincingly; to sustain against assault; as, to vindicate a right, claim, or title. 3. To support or maintain as true or correct, against denial, censure, or objections; to defend; to justify. When the respondent denies any proposition, the opponent must directly vindicate . . . that proposition. I. Watts. Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man. Pope. 4. To maintain, as a law or a cause, by overthrowing enemies. Milton. 5. To liberate; to set free; to deliver. I am confident he deserves much more That vindicates his country from a tyrant Than he that saves a citizen. Massinger. 6. To avenge; to punish; as, a war to vindicate or punish infidelity. Bacon. God is more powerful to exact subjection and to vindicate rebellion. Bp. Pearson. Syn. -- To assert; maintain; claim. See Assert.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of VINDICATE)
- Arrogate
- Claim
- assume
- vindicate
- assert
- demand
- Avenge
- Vindicate
- right
- visit
- retaliate
- Clean Clarify
- disencumber
- disentangle
- disembarrass
- liberate
- set free
- release
- exonerate
- exculpate
- justify
- retrieve
- acquit
- absolve
- whitewash
- extricate
- eliminate
- Exculpate
- Defend
- Excuse
- pardon
- forgive
- overlook
- condone
- i emit
- indulge
- defend
- mitigate
- extenuate
- exempt
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of VINDICATE)
- Forego
- waive
- disclaim
- abjure
- disavow
- abandon
- concede
- surrender
- repudiate
- Bind
- constrain
- confine
- shackle
- fetter
- yoke
Related words: (words related to VINDICATE)
- RIGHT-RUNNING
Straight; direct. - ACQUIT
Acquitted; set free; rid of. Shak. - DEMANDRESS
A woman who demands. - EXCUSEMENT
Excuse. Gower. - CLEANSABLE
Capable of being cleansed. Sherwood. - PARDON
A release, by a sovereign, or officer having jurisdiction, from the penalties of an offense, being distinguished from amenesty, which is a general obliteration and canceling of a particular line of past offenses. Syn. -- Forgiveness; remission. - CONFINER
One who, or that which, limits or restrains. - CLEAN-CUT
See CLEAR-CUT - RELEASE
To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back. - ELIMINATE
To cause to disappear from an equation; as, to eliminate an unknown quantity. 3. To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration. Eliminate errors that have been gathering and accumulating. Lowth. 4. - ASSERT
self, claim, maintain; ad + serere to join or bind together. See 1. To affirm; to declare with assurance, or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate. Nothing is more shameful . . . than to assert anything to - CLEANNESS
1. The state or quality of being clean. 2. Purity of life or language; freedom from licentious courses. Chaucer. - RIGHTEOUSNESS
The state of being right with God; justification; the work of Christ, which is the ground justification. There are two kinds of Christian righteousness: the one without us, which we have by imputation; the other in us, which consisteth of faith, - ASSERTORY
Affirming; maintaining. Arguments . . . assertory, not probatory. Jer. Taylor. An assertory, not a promissory, declaration. Bentham. A proposition is assertory, when it enounces what is known as actual. Sir W. Hamilton. - DISAVOWANCE
Disavowal. South. - EXCUSE
1. To free from accusation, or the imputation of fault or blame; to clear from guilt; to release from a charge; to justify by extenuating a fault; to exculpate; to absolve; to acquit. A man's persuasion that a thing is duty, will not excuse him - AVENGERESS
A female avenger. Spenser. - DISENCUMBER
To free from encumbrance, or from anything which clogs, impedes, or obstructs; to disburden. Owen. I have disencumbered myself from rhyme. Dryden. - VISITATION
The act of a naval commander who visits, or enters on board, a vessel belonging to another nation, for the purpose of ascertaining her character and object, but without claiming or exercising a right of searching the vessel. It is, however, usually - DISAVOWMENT
Disavowal. Wotton. - BRIGHT
See I - RECLAIMABLE
That may be reclaimed. - CARTWRIGHT
An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker. - RECLAIMER
One who reclaims. - ACCLAIM
1. To applaud. "A glad acclaiming train." Thomson. 2. To declare by acclamations. While the shouting crowd Acclaims thee king of traitors. Smollett. 3. To shout; as, to acclaim my joy. - UNCLEAN
1. Not clean; foul; dirty; filthy. 2. Ceremonially impure; needing ritual cleansing. He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days. Num. xix. 11. 3. Morally impure. "Adultery of the heart, consisting of inordinate - SPRIGHTLY
Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance. "Sprightly wit and love inspires." Dryden. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green. Pope. - FRIGHTFUL
1. Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne. 2. Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance. Syn.