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Word Meanings - ALIMONY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An allowance made to a wife out of her husband's estate or income for her support, upon her divorce or legal separation from him, or during a suit for the same. Wharton. Burrill. (more info) 1. Maintenance; means of living.

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  • LIVINGLY
    In a living state. Sir T. Browne.
  • LIVELY
    1. Endowed with or manifesting life; living. Chaplets of gold and silver resembling lively flowers and leaves. Holland. 2. Brisk; vivacious; active; as, a lively youth. But wherefore comes old Manoa in such haste, With youthful steps Much livelier
  • SUPPORTABLE
    Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.
  • LIVRAISON
    A part of a book or literary composition printed and delivered by itself; a number; a part.
  • LIVINGNESS
    The state or quality of being alive; possession of energy or vigor; animation; quickening.
  • LIVED
    Having life; -- used only in composition; as, long-lived; short-lived.
  • LIVE
    liven, livien, AS. libban, lifian; akin to OS. libbian, D. leven, G. leben, OHG. lebn, Dan. leve, Sw. lefva, Icel. lifa to live, to be left, to remain, Goth. liban to live; akin to E. leave to forsake, and life, Gr. lip to anoint, smear; -- the
  • ALIMENT
    1. That which nourishes; food; nutriment; anything which feeds or adds to a substance in natural growth. Hence: The necessaries of life generally: sustenance; means of support. Aliments of theiBacon. 2. An allowance for maintenance.
  • SUPPORTATION
    Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon.
  • ALIMENTALLY
    So as to serve for nourishment or food; nourishing quality. Sir T. Browne.
  • SUPPRESSOR
    One who suppresses.
  • DISCONTINUE
    To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off. Set up their conventicles again, which had been discontinued. Bp. Burnet. I have discontinued school
  • LIVERWORT
    1. A ranunculaceous plant with pretty white or bluish flowers and a three-lobed leaf; -- called also squirrel cups. 2. A flowerless plant , having an irregularly lobed, spreading, and forking frond. Note: From this plant many others of the same
  • LIVING PICTURE
    A tableau in which persons take part; also, specif., such a tableau as imitating a work of art.
  • SUPPORTFUL
    Abounding with support. Chapman.
  • EXHAUSTION
    An ancient geometrical method in which an exhaustive process was employed. It was nearly equivalent to the modern method of limits. Note: The method of exhaustions was applied to great variety of propositions, pertaining to rectifications
  • PROVISIONARY
    Provisional. Burke.
  • PROVISIONAL
    Of the nature of a provision; serving as a provision for the time being; -- used of partial or temporary arrangements; as, a provisional government; a provisional treaty.
  • SUPPORTLESS
    Having no support. Milton.
  • OPPOSELESS
    Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. "Your great opposeless wills." Shak.
  • DELIVERANCE
    Any fact or truth which is decisively attested or intuitively known as a psychological or philosophical datum; as, the deliverance of consciousness. (more info) 1. The act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like;
  • REDELIVER
    1. To deliver or give back; to return. Ay 2. To deliver or liberate a second time or again. 3. To report; to deliver the answer of. "Shall I redeliver you e'en so" Shak.
  • OLIVARY
    Like an olive. Olivary body , an oval prominence on each side of the medulla oblongata; -- called also olive.
  • OLIVINE
    A common name of the yellowish green mineral chrysolite, esp. the variety found in eruptive rocks.
  • COD LIVER
    The liver of the common cod and allied species. Cod-liver oil, an oil obtained fron the liver of the codfish, and used extensively in medicine as a means of supplying the body with fat in cases of malnutrition.
  • OLIVERIAN
    An adherent of Oliver Cromwell. Macaulay.
  • DELIVERABLE
    Capable of being, or about to be, delivered; necessary to be delivered. Hale.
  • REDELIVERY
    1. Act of delivering back. 2. A second or new delivery or liberation.
  • OLIVED
    Decorated or furnished with olive trees. T. Warton.

 

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