Word Meanings - BEADROLL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A catalogue of persons, for the rest of whose souls a certain number of prayers are to be said or counted off on the beads of a chaplet; hence, a catalogue in general. On Fame's eternal beadroll worthy to be field. Spenser. It is quite startling,

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A catalogue of persons, for the rest of whose souls a certain number of prayers are to be said or counted off on the beads of a chaplet; hence, a catalogue in general. On Fame's eternal beadroll worthy to be field. Spenser. It is quite startling, on going over the beadroll of English worthies, to find how few are directly represented in the male line. Quart. Rev.

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• COUNTERACTIVE
  Tending to counteract.
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  Counterflory.
• COUNTERVIEW
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• COUNTER WEIGHT
  A counterpoise.
• COUNTABLE
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• COUNTERJUMPER
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  One who holds the existence of matter to be from eternity. T. Burnet.
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  In a startling manner.
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  Afield adjacent to its owner's home. Hawthorne.
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