Word Meanings - ABUSEFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Full of abuse; abusive. "Abuseful names." Bp. Barlow.

NAMESAKE
One that has the same name as another; especially, one called after, or named out of regard to, another.
ABUSIVELY
In an abusive manner; rudely; with abusive language.
ABUSE
1. To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to misuse; to put to a bad use; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert; as, to abuse inherited gold; to make an excessive use of; as, to abuse one's authority. This principle shoots rapidly
ABUSER
One who abuses .
ABUSIVE
1. Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied. I am . . . necessitated to use the word Parliament improperly, according to the abusive acceptation thereof. Fuller. 2. Given to misusing; also, full of abuses. "The abusive prerogatives of his
ABUSEFUL
Full of abuse; abusive. "Abuseful names." Bp. Barlow.
ABUSIVENESS
The quality of being abusive; rudeness of language, or violence to the person. Pick out mirth, like stones out of thy ground, Profaneness, filthiness, abusiveness. Herbert.
INABUSIVELY
Without abuse.
SELF-ABUSE
1. The abuse of one's own self, powers, or faculties. 2. Self-deception; delusion. Shak. 3. Masturbation; onanism; self-pollution.
ANAMESE
Of or pertaining to Anam, to southeastern Asia. -- n.
DISABUSE
To set free from mistakes; to undeceive; to disengage from fallacy or deception; to set right. To undeceive and disabuse the people. South. If men are now sufficiently enlightened to disabuse themselves or artifice, hypocrisy, and superstition,