Word Meanings - WIZARDLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Resembling or becoming a wizard; wizardlike; weird.

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• WEIRD
  Fates, fr. weor to be, to become; akin to OS. wurd fate, OHG. wurt, 1. Fate; destiny; one of the Fates, or Norns; also, a prediction. 2. A spell or charm. Sir W. Scott.
• WIZARD
  1. A wise man; a sage. See how from far upon the eastern road The star-led wizards haste with odors sweet! Milton. 2. One devoted to the black art; a magician; a conjurer; a sorcerer; an enchanter. The wily wizard must be caught. Dryden.
• WEIRDNESS
  The quality or state of being weird.
• BECOME
  happen; akin to D. bekomen, OHG.a piquëman, Goth. biquiman to come 1. To pass from one state to another; to enter into some state or condition, by a change from another state, or by assuming or receiving new properties or qualities, additional
• WIZARDLY
  Resembling or becoming a wizard; wizardlike; weird.
• RESEMBLINGLY
  So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
• BECOMED
  Proper; decorous. And gave him what becomed love I might. Shak.
• RESEMBLANT
  Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower.
• BECOMINGLY
  In a becoming manner.
• BECOMINGNESS
  The quality of being becoming, appropriate, or fit; congruity; fitness. The becomingness of human nature. Grew.
• RESEMBLE
  sembler to seem, resemble, fr. L. similare, simulare, to imitate, fr. 1. To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other. We will resemble you in that. Shak.
• RESEMBLABLE
  Admitting of being compared; like. Gower.
• BECOMING
  Appropriate or fit; congruous; suitable; graceful; befitting. A low and becoming tone. Thackeray. Note: Formerly sometimes followed by of. Such discourses as are becoming of them. Dryden. Syn. -- Seemly; comely; decorous; decent; proper.
• RESEMBLER
  One who resembles.
• RESEMBLANCE
  1. The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity. One main end of poetry and painting is to please; they bear a great resemblance to each other. Dryden. 2. That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness.
• WIZARDRY
  The character or practices o "He acquired a reputation bordering on wizardry." J. A. Symonds.
• UNBECOMING
  Not becoming; unsuitable; unfit; indecorous; improper. My grief lets unbecoming speeches fall. Dryden. -- Un`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`be*com"ing*ness, n.
• UNBECOME
  To misbecome. Bp. Sherlock.
• MISBECOMING
  Unbecoming. Milton. -- Mis`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Mis`be*com"ing*ness, n. Boyle.
• MISBECOME
  Not to become; to suit ill; not to befit or be adapted to. Macaulay. Thy father will not act what misbecomes him. Addison.
• DISBECOME
  To misbecome. Massinger.