Word Meanings - ASSENTIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Giving assent; of the nature of assent; complying. -- As*sent"ive*ness, n.

Related words: (words related to ASSENTIVE)

• ASSENTATORY
  Flattering; obsequious. -- As*sent"a*to*ri*ly, adv.
• COMPLY
  are of different origin: cf. It. complire to compliment, finish, 1. To yield assent; to accord; agree, or acquiesce; to adapt one's self; to consent or conform; -- usually followed by with. Yet this be sure, in nothing to comply, Scandalous or
• 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.
• NATURED
  Having a nature, temper, or disposition; disposed; -- used in composition; as, good-natured, ill-natured, etc.
• 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.
• NATURELESS
  Not in accordance with nature; unnatural. Milton.
• 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
• NATURE
  1. The existing system of things; the world of matter, or of matter and mind; the creation; the universe. But looks through nature up to nature's God. Pope. Nature has caprices which art can not imitate. Macaulay. 2. The personified sum and order
• TERGIVERSATOR
  One who tergiversates; one who suffles, or practices evasion.
• UNNATURE
  To change the nature of; to invest with a different or contrary nature. A right heavenly nature, indeed, as if were unnaturing them, doth so bridle them . Sir P. Sidney.
• 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.
• DEMINATURED
  Having half the nature of another. Shak.
• REGIVE
  To give again; to give back.
• TIME SIGNATURE
  A sign at the beginning of a composition or movement, placed after the key signature, to indicate its time or meter. Also called rhythmical signature. It is in the form of a fraction, of which the denominator indicates the kind of note taken as
• FORGIVER
  One who forgives. Johnson.
• OGIVE
  The arch or rib which crosses a Gothic vault diagonally.
• ORNATURE
  Decoration; ornamentation. Holinshed.
• 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.