Word Meanings - CEORL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A freeman of the lowest class; one not a thane or of the servile classes; a churl.

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• CLASSIFIC
  Characterizing a class or classes; relating to classification.
• CLASSIFICATORY
  Pertaining to classification; admitting of classification. "A classificatory system." Earle.
• CLASSICISM
  A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism. C. Kingsley.
• CLASSIS
  An ecclesiastical body or judicat (more info) 1. A class or order; sort; kind. His opinion of that classis of men. Clarendon.
• SERVILELY
  In a servile manner; slavishly.
• SERVILENESS
  Quality of being servile; servility.
• CLASSMATE
  One who is in the same class with another, as at school or college.
• THANEDOM
  The property or jurisdiction of a thane; thanage. Sir W. Scott.
• CLASSIC
  1. A work of acknowledged excellence and authrity, or its author; -- originally used of Greek and Latin works or authors, but now applied to authors and works of a like character in any language. In is once raised him to the rank of a legitimate
• CLASSICALITY; CLASSICALNESS
  The quality of being classical.
• CLASSIFY
  To distribute into classes; to arrange according to a system; to arrnge in sets according to some method founded on common properties or characters. Syn. -- To arrange; distibute; rank.
• THANE
  A dignitary under the Anglo-Saxons and Danes in England. Of these there were two orders, the king's thanes, who attended the kings in their courts and held lands immediately of them, and the ordinary thanes, who were lords of manors and who had
• CLASSIFICATION
  The act of forming into a class or classes; a distibution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or affinities. Artificial classification. See under Artifitial.
• CLASSIBLE
  Capable of being classed.
• FREEMAN
  1. One who enjoys liberty, or who is not subject to the will of another; one not a slave or vassal. 2. A member of a corporation, company, or city, possessing certain privileges; a member of a borough, town, or State, who has the right to vote
• SERVILE
  1. Of or pertaining to a servant or slave; befitting a servant or a slave; proceeding from dependence; hence, meanly submissive; slavish; mean; cringing; fawning; as, servile flattery; servile fear; servile obedience. She must bend the servile
• CLASS DAY
  In American colleges and universities, a day of the commencement season on which the senior class celebrates the completion of its course by exercises conducted by the members, such as the reading of the class histories and poem, the delivery of
• CLASSIFIER
  One who classifies.
• CLASSICALLY
  1. In a classical manner; according to the manner of classical authors. 2. In the manner of classes; according to a regular order of classes or sets.
• CLASSIFIABLE
  Capable of being classified.
• NITROMETHANE
  A nitro derivative of methane obtained as a mobile liquid; -- called also nitrocarbol.
• CHURL
  husband; akin to D. karel, kerel, G. kerl, Dan. & Sw. karl, Icel. karl, and to the E. proper name Charles , and perh. 1. A rustic; a countryman or laborer. "A peasant or churl." Spenser. Your rank is all reversed; let men of cloth Bow
• SECOND-CLASS
  Of the rank or degree below the best highest; inferior; second- rate; as, a second-class house; a second-class passage.
• METHANE
  A light, colorless, gaseous, inflammable hydrocarbon, CH4; marsh gas. See Marsh gas, under Gas. Methane series , a series of saturated hydrocarbons, of which methane is the first member and type, and (because of their general chemical inertness
• FIRST-CLASS
  Of the best class; of the highest rank; in the first division; of the best quality; first-rate; as, a first-class telescope. First- class car or First-class railway carriage, any passenger car of the highest regular class, and intended
• ETHANE
  A gaseous hydrocarbon, C2H6, forming a constituent of ordinary illuminating gas. It is the second member of the paraffin series, and its most important derivatives are common alcohol, aldehyde, ether, and acetic acid. Called also dimethyl.
• MALAMETHANE
  A white crystalline substance forming the ethyl salt of malamic acid.
• OXAMETHANE
  Ethyl oxamate, obtained as a white scaly crystalline powder.