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1. A common saying; a proverb; a saying that has a general currency. I knew a wise man that had it for a byword. Bacon. 2. The object of a contemptuous saying. Thou makest us a byword among the heathen. Ps. xliv. 14

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  • PROVERBIAL
    1. Mentioned or comprised in a proverb; used as a proverb; hence, commonly known; as, a proverbial expression; his meanness was proverbial. In case of excesses, I take the German proverbial cure, by a hair of the same beast, to be the worst. Sir
  • SAYING
    That which is said; a declaration; a statement, especially a proverbial one; an aphorism; a proverb. Many are the sayings of the wise, In ancient and in modern books enrolled. Milton. Syn. -- Declaration; speech; adage; maxim; aphorism; apothegm;
  • SAYMAN
    One who assays.
  • SPEECHLESS
    1. Destitute or deprived of the faculty of speech. 2. Not speaking for a time; dumb; mute; silent. Speechless with wonder, and half dead with fear. Addison. -- Speech"less*ly, adv. -- Speech"less*ness, n.
  • MOTTO
    A sentence, phrase, or word, forming part of an heraldic achievment. 2. A sentence, phrase, or word, prefixed to an essay, discourse, chapter, canto, or the like, suggestive of its subject matter; a short, suggestive expression of a guiding
  • SPEECHIFYING
    The dinner and speechifying . . . at the opening of the annual season for the buckhounds. M. Arnold.
  • SPEECHFUL
    Full of speech or words; voluble; loquacious.
  • ADAGE
    An old saying, which has obtained credit by long use; a proverb. Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would," Like the poor cat i' the adage. Shak. Syn. -- Axiom; maxim; aphorism; proverb; saying; saw; apothegm. See Axiom.
  • SPEECHIFY
    To make a speech; to harangue.
  • APOTHEGMATIZE
    To utter apothegms, or short and sententious sayings.
  • BYWORD
    1. A common saying; a proverb; a saying that has a general currency. I knew a wise man that had it for a byword. Bacon. 2. The object of a contemptuous saying. Thou makest us a byword among the heathen. Ps. xliv. 14
  • MAXIMIZATION
    The act or process of increasing to the highest degree. Bentham.
  • PROVERB
    1. An old and common saying; a phrase which is often repeated; especially, a sentence which briefly and forcibly expresses some practical truth, or the result of experience and observation; a maxim; a saw; an adage. Chaucer. Bacon. 2. A striking
  • PROVERBIALIST
    One who makes much use of proverbs in speech or writing; one who composes, collects, or studies proverbs.
  • MAXIMIZE
    To increase to the highest degree. Bentham.
  • APHORISMER
    A dealer in aphorisms. Milton.
  • SPEECHIFICATION
    The act of speechifying.
  • APOTHEGM; APOPHTHEGM
    A short, pithy, and instructive saying; a terse remark, conveying some important truth; a sententious precept or maxim. Note:
  • MAXIM GUN
    A kind of machine gun; -- named after its inventor, Hiram S. Maxim.
  • APHORISMATIC; APHORISMIC
    Pertaining to aphorisms, or having the form of an aphorism.
  • SOUTHSAY
    See SOOTHSAY
  • VISAYAN
    A member of the most numerous of the native races of the Philippines, occupying the Visayan Islands and the northern coast Mindanao; also, their language. The Visayans possessed a native culture and alphabet.
  • UNDERSAY
    To say by way of derogation or contradiction. Spenser.
  • ASSAY POUND
    A small standard weight used in assaying bullion, etc., sometimes equaling 0.5 gram, but varying with the assayer.
  • ESSAYER
    One who essays. Addison.
  • GAINSAY
    To contradict; to deny; to controvert; to dispute; to forbid. I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist. Luke xxi. 15. The just gods gainsay That any drop thou borrow'dst from thy mother,
  • AGAINSAY
    To gainsay. Wyclif.
  • MISSAY
    1. To say wrongly. 2. To speak evil of; to slander.
  • ESSAY
    A composition treating of any particular subject; -- usually shorter and less methodical than a formal, finished treatise; as, an essay on the life and writings of Homer; an essay on fossils, or on commerce. 3. An assay. See Assay, n.
  • SELF-ASSERTION
    The act of asserting one's self, or one's own rights or claims; the quality of being self-asserting.
  • GAINSAYER
    One who gainsays, contradicts, or denies. "To convince the gainsayers." Tit. i. 9.
  • SOUTHSAYER
    See SOOTHSAYER

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