Word Meanings - CANVASS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To sift; to strain; to examine thoroughly; to scrutinize; as, to canvass the votes cast at an election; to canvass a district with reference to its probable vote. I have made careful search on all hands, and canvassed the matter with

Additional info about word: CANVASS

1. To sift; to strain; to examine thoroughly; to scrutinize; as, to canvass the votes cast at an election; to canvass a district with reference to its probable vote. I have made careful search on all hands, and canvassed the matter with all possible diligence. Woodward. 2. To examine by discussion; to debate. An opinion that we are likely soon to canvass. Sir W. Hamilton. 3. To go trough, with personal solicitation or public addresses; as, to canvass a district for votes; to canvass a city for subscriptions.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CANVASS)

• Carp
• Cavil
• censure
• challenge
• overhaul
• canvass
• hypercriticise
• object
• catch
• Challenge Defy
• summon
• dare
• question
• investigate
• brave
• Consult
• Interrogate
• deliberate
• confer
• advise with
• regard
• consider
• ask advice of
• care for
• promote
• Discuss
• Debate
• argue
• sift canvass
• examine
• Dispute
• Argue
• contest
• contend
• debate
• controvert
• controversy
• difference
• gainsay
• impugn
• quarrel
• altercation

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CANVASS)

• Pretermit
• allow
• ignore
• disregard
• admit
• pass
• misexamine
• misinvestigate
• Pass
• grant
• concede
• Shelve
• burke
• discard
• hazard
• chance
• risk
• Dictate
• state
• assert
• pronounce
• enunciate
• endorse
• affirm
• Miss
• overlook
• despise
• dislike
• contemn
• hate
• loathe
• misconsider
• misconceive
• misestimate
• misjudge

Related words: (words related to CANVASS)

• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• CONFERENCE
  A stated meeting of preachers and others, invested with authority to take cognizance of ecclesiastical matters. 6. A voluntary association of Congregational churches of a district; the district in which such churches are. Conference meeting,
• HAZARDIZE
  A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
• MISJUDGE
  To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.
• ADMITTER
  One who admits.
• STATEHOOD
  The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
• QUARRELING
  Engaged in a quarrel; apt or disposed to quarrel; as, quarreling factions; a quarreling mood. -- Quar"rel*ing*ly, adv.
• ENDORSER
  See INDORSER
• OBJECTIVENESS
  Objectivity. Is there such a motion or objectiveness of external bodies, which produceth light Sir M. Hale
• INTERROGATE
  To question formally; to question; to examine by asking questions; as, to interrogate a witness. Wilt thou, uncalled, interrogate, Talker! the unreplying Fate Emerson. Syn. -- To question; ask. See Question. (more info) interrogatus,
• AFFIRMATIVELY
  In an affirmative manner; on the affirmative side of a question; in the affirmative; -- opposed to negatively.
• ADVICE
  Counseling to perform a specific illegal act. Wharton. Advice boat, a vessel employed to carry dispatches or to reconnoiter; a dispatch boat. -- To take advice. To accept advice. To consult with another or others. Syn. -- Counsel; suggestion;
• CONSIDERINGLY
  With consideration or deliberation.
• ASSERT
  self, claim, maintain; ad + serere to join or bind together. See 1. To affirm; to declare with assurance, or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate. Nothing is more shameful . . . than to assert anything to
• ALLOWEDLY
  By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone.
• ASSERTORY
  Affirming; maintaining. Arguments . . . assertory, not probatory. Jer. Taylor. An assertory, not a promissory, declaration. Bentham. A proposition is assertory, when it enounces what is known as actual. Sir W. Hamilton.
• ALLOW
  allocare to admit as proved, to place, use; confused with OF. aloer, fr. L. allaudare to extol; ad + laudare to praise. See Local, and cf. 1. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. Luke xi. 48. We commend
• CENSURER
  One who censures. Sha.
• CREBRICOSTATE
  Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
• DENUNCIATE
  To denounce; to condemn publicly or solemnly. To denunciate this new work. Burke.
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• HALLOW
  To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed
• SCATCH
  A kind of bit for the bridle of a horse; -- called also scatchmouth. Bailey.
• SAGEBRUSH STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname.
• THRYFALLOW
  To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
• OLD LINE STATE
  Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
• ENSTATE
  See INSTATE
• CROSS-EXAMINER
  One who cross-examines or conducts a crosse-examination.