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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.

 

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