Word Meanings - BEATITUDE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Beatification. Milman. Syn. -- Blessedness; felicity; happiness. (more info) 1. Felicity of the highest kind; consummate bliss. 2. Any one of the nine declarations , made in the Sermon on the Mount , with regard to the blessedness of those who

Additional info about word: BEATITUDE

Beatification. Milman. Syn. -- Blessedness; felicity; happiness. (more info) 1. Felicity of the highest kind; consummate bliss. 2. Any one of the nine declarations , made in the Sermon on the Mount , with regard to the blessedness of those who are distinguished by certain specified virtues.

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• MOUNTABLE
  Such as can be mounted.
• MOUNTING
  1. The act of one that mounts. 2. That by which anything is prepared for use, or set off to advantage; equipment; embellishment; setting; as, the mounting of a sword or diamond.
• CONSUMMATELY
  In a consummate manner; completely. T. Warton.
• MOUNTAINOUS
  1. Full of, or containing, mountains; as, the mountainous country of the Swiss. 2. Inhabiting mountains. Bacon. 3. Large as, or resembling, a mountain; huge; of great bulk; as, a mountainous heap. Prior.
• MOUNTAINOUSNESS
  The state or quality of being mountainous.
• BLISS
  Orig., blithesomeness; gladness; now, the highest degree of happiness; blessedness; exalted felicity; heavenly joy. An then at last our bliss Full and perfect is. Milton. Syn. -- Blessedness; felicity; beatitude; happiness; joy; enjoyment.
• SERMONEER
  A sermonizer. B. Jonson.
• BEATIFICATION
  The act of beatifying, or the state of being beatified; esp., in the R. C. Church, the act or process of ascertaining and declaring that a deceased person is one of "the blessed," or has attained the second degree of sanctity, -- usually a stage
• THOSE
  The plural of that. See That.
• MOUNTANT
  Raised; high.
• SERMONIZE
  1. To compose or write a sermon or sermons; to preach. 2. To inculcate rigid rules. Chesterfield.
• SERMONING
  The act of discoursing; discourse; instruction; preaching. Chaucer.
• SERMONET
  A short sermon.
• FELICITY
  1. The state of being happy; blessedness; blissfulness; enjoyment of good. Our own felicity we make or find. Johnson. Finally, after this life, to attain everlasting joy and felicity. Book of Common Prayer. 2. That which promotes happiness;
• MOUNTEBANKISM
  The practices of a mountebank; mountebankery.
• MOUNT
  A bank; a fund. Mount of piety. See Mont de piété. (more info) montis; cf. L. minae protections, E. eminent, menace: cf. F. mont. 1. A mass of earth, or earth and rock, rising considerably above the common surface of the surrounding
• MOUNTEBANK
  1. One who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, and vends medicines which he pretends are infalliable remedies; a quack doctor. Such is the weakness and easy credulity of men, that
• BLISSLESS
  Destitute of bliss. Sir P. Sidney.
• MOUNTENAUNCE
  Mountance.
• MOUNTER
  1. One who mounts. 2. An animal mounted; a monture.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• DEMOUNT
  To dismount.
• SPATHOSE
  See SPATHIC
• INSURMOUNTABILITY
  The state or quality of being insurmountable.
• REMOUNT
  To mount again.
• INCONSUMMATE
  Not consummated; not finished; incomplete. Sir M. Hale. -- In`con*sum"mate*ness, n.
• POLY-MOUNTAIN
  Same as Poly, n. The closely related Teucrium montanum, formerly called Polium montanum, a plant of Southern Europe. The Bartsia alpina, a low purple-flowered herb of Europe.