Word Meanings - CELIBATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Celibate state; celibacy. He . . . preferreth holy celibate before the estate of marrige. Jer. Taylor. 2. One who is unmarried, esp. a bachelor, or one bound by vows not to marry.

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• MARRY
  1. To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to perform the ceremony of joining, as a man and a woman, for life; to constitute (a man and a woman) husband and wife according to the laws or customs of the place. Tell him that he shall marry the
• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• BOUNDLESS
  Without bounds or confines; illimitable; vast; unlimited. "The boundless sky." Bryant. "The boundless ocean." Dryden. "Boundless rapacity." "Boundless prospect of gain." Macaulay. Syn. -- Unlimited; unconfined; immeasurable; illimitable; infinite.
• STATEHOOD
  The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
• CELIBATE
  1. Celibate state; celibacy. He . . . preferreth holy celibate before the estate of marrige. Jer. Taylor. 2. One who is unmarried, esp. a bachelor, or one bound by vows not to marry.
• BACHELORISM
  Bachelorhood; also, a manner or peculiarity belonging to bachelors. W. Irving.
• STATE SOCIALISM
  A form of socialism, esp. advocated in Germany, which, while retaining the right of private property and the institution of the family and other features of the present form of the state, would intervene by various measures intended to
• BACHELOR
  A kind of bass, an edible fresh-water fish of the southern United States. (more info) bacalar, Sp.bachiller, Pg. bacharel, It. baccalare), LL. baccalarius the tenant of a kind of farm called baccalaria, a soldier not old or rich enough to lead
• BEFORETIME
  Formerly; aforetime. dwelt in their tents, as beforetime. 2 Kings xiii. 5.
• BOUNDING
  Moving with a bound or bounds. The bounding pulse, the languid limb. Montgomery.
• STATECRAFT
  The art of conducting state affairs; state management; statesmanship.
• STATESWOMAN
  A woman concerned in public affairs. A rare stateswoman; I admire her bearing. B. Jonson.
• STATESMANLY
  Becoming a statesman.
• STATESMAN
  1. A man versed in public affairs and in the principles and art of government; especially, one eminent for political abilities. The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more, the stronger light
• CELIBACY
  The state of being unmarried; single life, esp. that of a bachelor, or of one bound by vows not to marry. "The celibacy of the clergy." Hallom.
• STATEDLY
  At stated times; regularly.
• TAYLOR-WHITE PROCESS
  A process (invented about 1899 by Frederick W. Taylor and Maunsel B. White) for giving toughness to self-hardening steels. The steel is heated almost to fusion, cooled to a temperature of from 700º to 850º C. in molten lead, further cooled in
• STATELESS
  Without state or pomp.
• BACHELORSHIP
  The state of being a bachelor.
• STATEMONGER
  One versed in politics, or one who dabbles in state affairs.
• HOME-BOUND
  Kept at home.
• CREBRICOSTATE
  Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
• OUTBOUND
  Outward bound. Dryden.
• SAGEBRUSH STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname.
• OLD LINE STATE
  Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
• ENSTATE
  See INSTATE
• UNBOUND
  imp. & p. p. of Unbind.
• KATASTATE
  A substance formed by a katabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See Katabolic.
• BAYOU STATE
  Mississippi; -- a nickname, from its numerous bayous.
• REESTATE
  To reëstablish. Walis.
• BLACKWATER STATE
  Nebraska; -- a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil.
• ARISTATE
  Having a pointed, beardlike process, as the glumes of wheat; awned. Gray.
• UNBOUNDED
  Having no bound or limit; as, unbounded space; an, unbounded ambition. Addison. -- Un*bound"ed*ly, adv. -- Un*bound"ed*ness, n.
• BICOSTATE
  Having two principal ribs running longitudinally, as a leaf.