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Word Meanings - WHEREAT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. At which; upon which; whereupon; -- used relatively. They vote; whereat his speech he thus renews. Milton. Whereat he was no less angry and ashamed than desirous to obey Zelmane. Sir P. Sidney. 2. At what; -- used interrogatively; as, whereat

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1. At which; upon which; whereupon; -- used relatively. They vote; whereat his speech he thus renews. Milton. Whereat he was no less angry and ashamed than desirous to obey Zelmane. Sir P. Sidney. 2. At what; -- used interrogatively; as, whereat are you offended

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  • SPEECHLESS
    1. Destitute or deprived of the faculty of speech. 2. Not speaking for a time; dumb; mute; silent. Speechless with wonder, and half dead with fear. Addison. -- Speech"less*ly, adv. -- Speech"less*ness, n.
  • SPEECHIFYING
    The dinner and speechifying . . . at the opening of the annual season for the buckhounds. M. Arnold.
  • SPEECHFUL
    Full of speech or words; voluble; loquacious.
  • WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
    Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
  • SPEECHIFY
    To make a speech; to harangue.
  • RELATIVELY
    In a relative manner; in relation or respect to something else; not absolutely. Consider the absolute affections of any being as it is in itself, before you consider it relatively. I. Watts.
  • DESIROUS
    Feeling desire; eagerly wishing; solicitous; eager to obtain; covetous. Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask him. John xvi. 19. Be not desirous of his dainties. Prov. xxiii. 3.
  • WHICH
    the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
  • SPEECHIFICATION
    The act of speechifying.
  • DESIROUSNESS
    The state of being desirous.
  • ASHAMEDLY
    Bashfully.
  • ASHAMED
    Affected by shame; abashed or confused by guilt, or a conviction or consciousness of some wrong action or impropriety. "I am ashamed to beg." Wyclif. All that forsake thee shall be ashamed. Jer. xvii. 13. I began to be ashamed of sitting
  • WHEREUPON
    Upon which; in consequence of which; after which. The townsmen mutinied and sent to Essex; whereupon he came thither. Clarendon.
  • INTERROGATIVELY
    In the form of, or by means of, a question; in an interrogative manner.
  • DESIROUSLY
    With desire; eagerly.
  • ASHAME
    To shame. Barrow.
  • MILTONIAN
    Miltonic. Lowell.
  • MILTONIC
    Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
  • WHEREAT
    1. At which; upon which; whereupon; -- used relatively. They vote; whereat his speech he thus renews. Milton. Whereat he was no less angry and ashamed than desirous to obey Zelmane. Sir P. Sidney. 2. At what; -- used interrogatively; as, whereat
  • ANGRY
    1. Troublesome; vexatious; rigorous. God had provided a severe and angry education to chastise the forwardness of a young spirit. Jer. Taylor. 2. Inflamed and painful, as a sore. 3. Touched with anger; under the emotion of anger; feeling
  • VISIBLE SPEECH
    A system of characters invented by Prof. Alexander Melville Bell to represent all sounds that may be uttered by the speech organs, and intended to be suggestive of the position of the organs of speech in uttering them.
  • HAMILTON PERIOD
    A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
  • INTERSPEECH
    A speech interposed between others. Blount.
  • FORESPEECH
    A preface. Sherwood.

 

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