Word Meanings - ASSENTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Giving or implying assent. -- As*sent"ing*ly, adv.

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• IMPLY
  1. To infold or involve; to wrap up. "His head in curls implied." Chapman. 2. To involve in substance or essence, or by fair inference, or by construction of law, when not include virtually; as, war implies fighting. Where a mulicious act is
• ASSENTATORY
  Flattering; obsequious. -- As*sent"a*to*ri*ly, adv.
• ASSENTER
  One who assents.
• GIVES
  Fetters.
• GIVING
  1. The act of bestowing as a gift; a conferring or imparting. 2. A gift; a benefaction. Pope. 3. The act of softening, breaking, or yielding. "Upon the first giving of the weather." Addison. Giving in, a falling inwards; a collapse. -- Giving
• ASSENTMENT
  Assent; agreement.
• ASSENTATOR
  An obsequious; a flatterer.
• GIVER
  One who gives; a donor; a bestower; a grantor; one who imparts or distributes. It is the giver, and not the gift, that engrosses the heart of the Christian. Kollock.
• ASSENTING
  Giving or implying assent. -- As*sent"ing*ly, adv.
• ASSENTIVE
  Giving assent; of the nature of assent; complying. -- As*sent"ive*ness, n.
• GIVEN
  p. p. & a. from Give, v.
• ASSENTATION
  Insincere, flattering, or obsequious assent; hypocritical or pretended concurrence. Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. Ld. Chesterfield.
• ASSENTIENT
  Assenting.
• GIVE
  To set forth as a known quantity or a known relation, or as a premise from which to reason; -- used principally in the passive form given. 9. To allow or admit by way of supposition. I give not heaven for lost. Mlton. 10. To attribute; to assign;
• ASSENT
  To admit a thing as true; to express one's agreement, acquiescence, concurrence, or concession. Who informed the governor . . . And the Jews also assented, saying that these things were so. Acts xxiv. 9. The princess assented to all that
• TERGIVERSATOR
  One who tergiversates; one who suffles, or practices evasion.
• THANKSGIVING
  1. The act of rending thanks, or expressing gratitude for favors or mercies. Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving. 1 Tim. iv. 4. In the thanksgiving before meat. Shak. And taught by thee
• ALMSGIVING
  The giving of alms.
• MISGIVING
  Evil premonition; doubt; distrust. "Suspicious and misgivings." South.
• FUNGIVOROUS
  Eating fungi; -- said of certain insects and snails.
• REGIVE
  To give again; to give back.
• FORGIVER
  One who forgives. Johnson.
• OGIVE
  The arch or rib which crosses a Gothic vault diagonally.
• THANKSGIVER
  One who gives thanks, or acknowledges a kindness. Barrow.
• THANKSGIVE
  To give or dedicate in token of thanks. Mede.
• UPGIVE
  To give up or out.
• LIFE-GIVING
  Giving life or spirit; having power to give life; inspiriting; invigorating.
• DISASSENT
  To dissent.
• FORGIVING
  Disposed to forgive; inclined to overlook offenses; mild; merciful; compassionate; placable; as, a forgiving temper. -- For*giv"ing*ly, adv. -- For*giv"ing*ness, n. J. C. Shairp.