Word Meanings - ABRENUNCIATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Absolute renunciation or repudiation. An abrenunciation of that truth which he so long had professed, and still believed. Fuller.
Related words: (words related to ABRENUNCIATION)
- STILLY
Still; quiet; calm. The stilly hour when storms are gone. Moore. - PROFESSORY
Of or pertaining to a professor; professorial. Bacon. - PROFESSORIALISM
The character, manners, or habits of a professor. - STILLBIRTH
The birth of a dead fetus. - PROFESSORIAT
See PROFESSORIATE - TRUTHY
Truthful; likely; probable. "A more truthy import." W. G. Palgrave. - ABSOLUTENESS
The quality of being absolute; independence of everything extraneous; unlimitedness; absolute power; independent reality; positiveness. - PROFESSEDLY
By profession. - STILLSTAND
A standstill. Shak. - RENUNCIATION
Formal declination to take out letters of administration, or to assume an office, privilege, or right. Syn. -- Renouncement; disownment; disavowal; disavowment; disclaimer; rejection; abjuration; recantation; denial; abandonment; relinquishment. - FULLER
One whose occupation is to full cloth. Fuller's earth, a variety of clay, used in scouring and cleansing cloth, to imbibe grease. -- Fuller's herb , the soapwort , formerly used to remove stains from cloth. -- Fuller's thistle or weed - STILLING
A stillion. - STILLAGE
A low stool to keep the goods from touching the floor. Knight. - PROFESSOR
1. One who professed, or makes open declaration of, his sentiments or opinions; especially, one who makes a public avowal of his belief in the Scriptures and his faith in Christ, and thus unites himself to the visible church. "Professors - 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. - PROFESS
or nun), L. professus, p. p. of profiteri to profess; pro before, 1. To make open declaration of, as of one's knowledge, belief, action, etc.; to avow or acknowledge; to confess publicly; to own or admit freely. "Hear me profess sincerely." Shak. - BELIEVING
That believes; having belief. -- Be*liev"ing*ly, adv. - ABRENUNCIATION
Absolute renunciation or repudiation. An abrenunciation of that truth which he so long had professed, and still believed. Fuller. - STILLION
A stand, as for casks or vats in a brewery, or for pottery while drying. - PROFESSORSHIP
The office or position of a professor, or public teacher. Walton. - INSTILL
To drop in; to pour in drop by drop; hence, to impart gradually; to infuse slowly; to cause to be imbibed. That starlight dews All silently their tears of love instill. Byron. How hast thou instilled Thy malice into thousands. Milton. Syn. -- To - PISTILLIFEROUS
Pistillate. - DISTILLABLE
Capable of being distilled; especially, capable of being distilled without chemical change or decomposition; as, alcohol is distillable; olive oil is not distillable. - DISTILLATION
The separation of the volatile parts of a substance from the more fixed; specifically, the operation of driving off gas or vapor from volatile liquids or solids, by heat in a retort or still, and the condensation of the products as far as possible - FINESTILLER
One who finestills. - INSTILLATOR
An instiller. - SELF-RENUNCIATION
The act of renouncing, or setting aside, one's own wishes, claims, etc.; self-sacrifice. - DISPROFESS
To renounce the profession or pursuit of. His arms, which he had vowed to disprofess. Spenser.