Word Meanings - WAYMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To lament; to grieve; to wail. Thilke science . . . maketh a man to waymenten. Chaucer. For what boots it to weep and wayment, When ill is chanced Spenser. (more info) guai, woe! and L. lamentari to lament.

Related words: (words related to WAYMENT)

• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• LAMENTING
  Lamentation. Lamentings heard i' the air. Shak.
• GRIEVE
  1. To occasion grief to; to wound the sensibilities of; to make sorrowful; to cause to suffer; to affect; to hurt; to try. Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God. Eph. iv. 30. The maidens grieved themselves at my concern. Cowper, 2. To sorrow over;
• LAMENTED
  Mourned for; bewailed. This humble praise,lamented shade ! receive. Pope.
• CHANCEFUL
  Hazardous. Spenser.
• LAMENT
  To express or feel sorrow; to weep or wail; to mourn. Jeremiah lamented for Josiah. 2 Chron. xxxv. 25. Ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice. John xvi. 20.
• CHANCE
  Probability. Note: The mathematical expression, of a chance is the ratio of frequency with which an event happens in the long run. If an event may happen in a ways and may fail in b ways, and each of these a + b ways is equally likely, the chance,
• LAMENTINGLY
  In a lamenting manner.
• CHANCELLORSHIP
  The office of a chancellor; the time during which one is chancellor.
• CHANCEL
  lattices, crossbars. (The chancel was formerly inclosed with lattices That part of a church, reserved for the use of the clergy, where the altar, or communion table, is placed. Hence, in modern use; All that part of a cruciform church which is
• LAMENTIN
  See LAMANTIN
• CHANCEABLY
  By chance.
• CHANCERY
  1. In England, formerly, the highest court of judicature next to the Parliament, exercising jurisdiction at law, but chiefly in equity; but under the jurisdiction act of 1873 it became the chancery division of the High Court of Justice, and now
• CHANCROID
  A venereal sore, resembling a chancre in its seat and some external characters, but differing from it in being the starting point of a purely local process and never of a systemic disease; -- called also soft chancre.
• BOOTS
  A servant at a hotel or elsewhere, who cleans and blacks the boots and shoes.
• CHANCELLOR
  A judicial court of chancery, which in England and in the United States is distinctively a court with equity jurisdiction. Note: The chancellor was originally a chief scribe or secretary under the Roman emperors, but afterward was invested with
• GRIEVE; GREEVE
  A manager of a farm, or overseer of any work; a reeve; a manorial bailiff. Their children were horsewhipped by the grieve. Sir W. Scott.
• GRIEVER
  One who, or that which, grieves.
• CHANCRE
  A venereal sore or ulcer; specifically, the initial lesion of true syphilis, whether forming a distinct ulcer or not; -- called also hard chancre, indurated chancre, and Hunterian chancre. Soft chancre. A chancroid. See Chancroid.
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• FILAMENTOUS
  Like a thread; consisting of threads or filaments. Gray.
• ARCHCHANCELLOR
  A chief chancellor; -- an officer in the old German empire, who presided over the secretaries of the court.
• PRESCIENCE
  Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight. God's certain prescience of the volitions of moral agents. J. Edwards.
• ENGRIEVE
  To grieve. Spenser.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• PERCHANCE
  By chance; perhaps; peradventure.
• OMNISCIENCE
  The quality or state of being omniscient; -- an attribute peculiar to God. Dryden.
• UNCHANCY
  1. Happening at a bad time; unseasonable; inconvenient. A. Trollope. 2. Ill-fated; unlucky. 3. Unsafe to meddle with; dangerous.
• UNSCIENCE
  Want of science or knowledge; ignorance. If that any wight ween a thing to be otherwise than it is, it is not only unscience, but it is deceivable opinion. Chaucer.
• CONSCIENCE
  consciens, p.pr. of conscire to know, to be conscious; con- + scire 1. Knowledge of one's own thoughts or actions; consciousness. The sweetest cordial we receive, at last, Is conscience of our virtuous actions past. Denham. 2. The faculty, power,
• MISCHANCE
  Ill luck; ill fortune; mishap. Chaucer. Never come mischance between us twain. Shak. Syn. -- Calamity; misfortune; misadventure; mishap; infelicity; disaster. See Calamity.
• BECHANCE
  By chance; by accident. Grafton.