Word Meanings - CHASTENED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Corrected; disciplined; refined; purified; toned down. Sir. W. Scott. Of such a finished chastened purity. Tennyson.

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• TONSILITIC
  Tonsilar.
• CORRECTLY
  In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.
• PURITY
  The condition of being pure. Specifically: freedom from foreign admixture or deleterious matter; as, the purity of water, of wine, of drugs, of metals. Cleanness; freedom from foulness or dirt. "The purity of a linen vesture." Holyday. Freedom from
• TONSURE
  1. The act of clipping the hair, or of shaving the crown of the head; also, the state of being shorn. The first ceremony used for devoting a person to the service of God and the church; the first degree of the clericate, given by a bishop, abbot,
• FINISHER
  1. One who finishes, puts an end to, completes, or perfects; esp. used in the trades, as in hatting, weaving, etc., for the workman who gives a finishing touch to the work, or any part of it, and brings it to perfection. O prophet of glad tidings,
• TONGUELET
  A little tongue.
• TONNE
  A tun. Chaucer.
• TONNAGE
  1. The weight of goods carried in a boat or a ship. 2. The cubical content or burden of a vessel, or vessels, in tons; or, the amount of weight which one or several vessels may carry. See Ton, n. . A fleet . . . with an aggregate tonnage of 60,000
• TONGUE-SHELL
  Any species of Lingula.
• TONITE
  An explosive compound; a preparation of gun cotton.
• CORRECTORY
  Containing or making correction; corrective.
• DISCIPLINER
  One who disciplines.
• TONICAL
  Tonic. Sir T. Browne.
• CORRECTIFY
  To correct. When your worship's plassed to correctify a lady. Beau & Fl.
• REFINED
  Freed from impurities or alloy; purifed; polished; cultured; delicate; as; refined gold; refined language; refined sentiments. Refined wits who honored poesy with their pens. Peacham. -- Re*fin"ed*ly (r, adv. -- Re*fin"ed*ness, n.
• TONGKANG
  A kind of boat or junk used in the seas of the Malay Archipelago.
• TONGUESTER
  One who uses his tongue; a talker; a story-teller; a gossip. Step by step we rose to greatness; through the tonguesters we may fall. Tennyson.
• TONTINE INSURANCE
  Insurance in which the benefits of the insurance are distributed upon the tontine principle. Under the old, or full tontine, plan, all benefits were forfeited on lapsed policies, on the policies of those who died within the tontine period only the
• CORRECTIBLE; CORRECTABLE
  Capable of being corrected.
• BUTTONHOLE
  The hole or loop in which a button is caught.
• PITCHSTONE
  An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
• CAPSTONE
  A fossil echinus of the genus Cannulus; -- so called from its supposed resemblance to a cap.
• SERPENT-TONGUED
  Having a forked tongue, like a serpent.
• CLINKSTONE
  An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite.
• GRINDSTONE
  A flat, circular stone, revolving on an axle, for grinding or sharpening tools, or shaping or smoothing objects. To hold, pat, or bring one's nose to the grindstone, to oppress one; to keep one in a condition of servitude. They might be ashamed,
• HYDROPERITONEUM
  See ASCITES
• HUTTONING
  Forcible manipulation of a dislocated, stiff, or painful joint.
• WANTON
  wanting , hence expressing negation + towen, p. p., AS. togen, p. p. of teón to draw, to educate, bring up; hence, 1. Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive. "In woods and wanton wilderness."
• KARYOMITON
  The reticular network of fine fibers, of which the nucleus of a cell is in part composed; -- in opposition to kytomiton, or the network in the body of the cell. W. Flemming.
• MOORSTONE
  A species of English granite, used as a building stone.
• PHITONESS
  Pythoness; witch.
• RUBSTONE
  A stone for scouring or rubbing; a whetstone; a rub.
• STONEBRASH
  A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash.
• ASTONISH
  étonner, fr. L. ex out + tonare to thunder, but perhaps influenced by 1. To stun; to render senseless, as by a blow. The very cramp-fish . . . being herself not benumbed, is able to astonish others. Holland. 2. To strike with sudden
• GRINDLE STONE
  A grindstone.
• EMPROSTHOTONOS
  A drawing of the body forward, in consequence of the spasmodic action of some of the muscles. Gross.
• MELOCOTON; MELOCOTOON
  peach tree and its fruit, L. malum cotonium, or cotonea, or Cydonia, A quince. A kind of peach having one side deep red, and the flesh yellow.
• MONOTONE
  A single unvaried tone or sound.
• TETRASPASTON
  A machine in which four pulleys act together. Brande & C.