Word Meanings - ANOTHER-GATES - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Of another sort. "Another-gates adventure." Hudibras.
Related words: (words related to ANOTHER-GATES)
- ANOTHER-GUESS
Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot. - ADVENTURESS
A female adventurer; a woman who tries to gain position by equivocal means. - ADVENTURESOME
Full of risk; adventurous; venturesome. -- Ad*ven"ture*some*ness, n. - ADVENTUREFUL
Given to adventure. - HUDIBRASTIC
Similar to, or in the style of, the poem "Hudibras," by Samuel Butler; in the style of doggerel verse. Macaulay. - ANOTHER
1. One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect. Another yet! -- a seventh! I 'll see no more. Shak. Would serve to scale another Hero's tower. Shak. 2. Not the same; different. He winks, - ADVENTURER
1. One who adventures; as, the merchant adventurers; one who seeks his fortune in new and hazardous or perilous enterprises. 2. A social pretender on the lookout for advancement. - ADVENTURE
LL. adventura, fr. L. advenire, adventum, to arrive, which in the 1. That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss. Nay, a far less good to man it will be found, if she must, at all adventures, be fastened - ANOTHER-GAINES
Of another kind. Sir P. Sidney. - ANOTHER-GATES
Of another sort. "Another-gates adventure." Hudibras. - SURROGATESHIP
The office of a surrogate. - LEGATESHIP
The office of a legate. - DISADVENTURE
Misfortune; mishap. Sir W. Raleigh. - COADVENTURER
A fellow adventurer. - COADVENTURE
An adventure in which two or more persons are partakers. - PERADVENTURE
By chance; perhaps; it may be; if; supposing. "If peradventure he speak against me." Shak. Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city. Gen. xviii. - MISADVENTURED
Unfortunate. - ALGATE; ALGATES
1. Always; wholly; everywhere. Ulna now he algates must forego. Spenser. Note: Still used in the north of England in the sense of "everywhere." 2. By any or means; at all events. Fairfax. 3. Notwithstanding; yet. Chaucer. - OTHERGATES
In another manner. He would have tickled you othergates. Shak. - MISADVENTURE
Mischance; misfortune; ill lick; unlucky accident; ill adventure. Chaucer. Homicide by misadventure , homicide which occurs when a man, doing a lawful act, without any intention of injury, unfortunately kills another; -- called also excusable - TITANOTHERIUM
A large American Miocene mammal, allied to the rhinoceros, and more nearly to the extinct Brontotherium.