Word Meanings - BIRTHWORT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A genus of herbs and shrubs , reputed to have medicinal properties.

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• REPUTATION
  The character imputed to a person in the community in which he lives. It is admissible in evidence when he puts his character in issue, or when such reputation is otherwise part of the issue of a case. 3. Specifically: Good reputation; favorable
• REPUTATIVELY
  By repute.
• REPUTELESS
  Not having good repute; disreputable; disgraceful; inglorius. Shak.
• MEDICINAL
  1. Having curative or palliative properties; used for the cure or alleviation of bodily disorders; as, medicinal tinctures, plants, or springs. Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees Their medicinal gum. Shak. 2. Of or pertaining to medicine;
• MEDICINALLY
  In a medicinal manner.
• REPUTABLE
  Having, or worthy of, good repute; held in esteem; honorable; praiseworthy; as, a reputable man or character; reputable conduct. In the article of danger, it is as reputable to elude an enemy as defeat one. Broome. Syn. -- Respectable; creditable;
• GENUS
  A class of objects divided into several subordinate species; a class more extensive than a species; a precisely defined and exactly divided class; one of the five predicable conceptions, or sorts of terms.
• REPUTEDLY
  In common opinion or estimation; by repute.
• REPUTE
  To hold in thought; to account; to estimate; to hold; to think; to reckon. Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight Job xviii. 3. The king your father was reputed for A prince most prudent. Shak.
• SUBGENUS
  A subdivision of a genus, comprising one or more species which differ from other species of the genus in some important character or characters; as, the azaleas now constitute a subgenus of Rhododendron.
• UNREPUTABLE
  Disreputable.
• DISREPUTABILITY
  The state of being disreputable.
• PREPUTIAL
  Of or pertaining to the prepuce.
• DISREPUTABLE
  Not reputable; of bad repute; not in esteem; dishonorable; disgracing the reputation; tending to bring into disesteem; as, it is disreputable to associate familiarly with the mean, the lewd, and the profane. Why should you think that conduct
• MISREPUTE
  To have in wrong estimation; to repute or estimate erroneously.
• DISREPUTABLY
  In a disreputable manner.
• DISREPUTATION
  Loss or want of reputation or good name; dishonor; disrepute; disesteem. "A disreputation of piety." Jer. Taylor.
• DISREPUTE
  Loss or want of reputation; ill character; disesteem; discredit. At the beginning of the eighteenth century astrology fell into general disrepute. Sir W. Scott. Syn. -- Disesteem; discredit; dishonor; disgrace.
• IRREPUTABLE
  Disreputable.