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Resembling Cicero in style or action; eloquent.

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  • STYLET
    A small poniard; a stiletto. An instrument for examining wounds and fistulas, and for passing setons, and the like; a probe, -- called also specillum. A stiff wire, inserted in catheters or other tubular instruments to maintain their shape
  • ACTION
    Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun. (more info) 1. A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of
  • CICERONIANISM
    Imitation of, or resemblance to, the style or action Cicero; a Ciceronian phrase or expression. "Great study in Ciceronianism, the chief abuse of Oxford." Sir P. Sidney.
  • ACTIONABLE
    That may be the subject of an action or suit at law; as, to call a man a thief is actionable.
  • ELOQUENT
    1. Having the power of expressing strong emotions or forcible arguments in an elevated, impassioned, and effective manner; as, an eloquent orator or preacher. O Death, all-eloquent! You only prove What dust we dote on when 't is man we love. Pope.
  • RESEMBLINGLY
    So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
  • CICERONIAN
    Resembling Cicero in style or action; eloquent.
  • RESEMBLANT
    Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower.
  • ACTIONABLY
    In an actionable manner.
  • ELOQUENTLY
    In an eloquent manner.
  • RESEMBLE
    sembler to seem, resemble, fr. L. similare, simulare, to imitate, fr. 1. To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other. We will resemble you in that. Shak.
  • ACTIONARY; ACTIONIST
    A shareholder in joint-stock company.
  • RESEMBLABLE
    Admitting of being compared; like. Gower.
  • CICERONE
    One who shows strangers the curiosities of a place; a guide. Every glib and loquacious hireling who shows strangers about their (more info) Cicero, the Roman orator. So called from the ordinary talkativeness
  • CICERO
    Pica type; -- so called by French printers.
  • ACTIONLESS
    Void of action.
  • STYLE
    The pin, or gnomon, of a dial, the shadow of which indicates (more info) style or writing instrument, manner or writing, mode of expression; probably for stiglus, meaning, a pricking instrument, and akin to E. stick. See Stick, v. t.,
  • RESEMBLER
    One who resembles.
  • RESEMBLANCE
    1. The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity. One main end of poetry and painting is to please; they bear a great resemblance to each other. Dryden. 2. That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness.
  • INELOQUENTLY
    Without eloquence.
  • ARAEOSTYLE
    See INTERCOLUMNIATION
  • CYCLOSTYLE
    A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred
  • REACTIONIST
    A reactionary. C. Kingsley.
  • SURSTYLE
    To surname.
  • AMPHIPROSTYLE
    Doubly prostyle; having columns at each end, but not at the sides. -- n.
  • MADEFACTION; MADEFICATION
    The act of madefying, or making wet; the state of that which is made wet. Bacon.
  • INSTYLE
    To style. Crashaw.
  • REDACTION
    The act of redacting; work produced by redacting; a digest.
  • CHYLIFACTION
    The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process.
  • ENDOSTYLE
    A fold of the endoderm, which projects into the blood cavity of ascidians. See Tunicata.
  • FACTION
    One of the divisions or parties of charioteers (distinguished by their colors) in the games of the circus. 2. A party, in political society, combined or acting in union, in opposition to the government, or state; -- usually applied to a minority,
  • DISTRACTION
    1. The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation. To create distractions among us. Bp. Burnet. 2. That which diverts attention; a diversion. "Domestic distractions." G. Eliot. 3. A diversity of direction; detachment. His power went out in
  • REFACTION
    Recompense; atonemet; retribution. Howell.
  • COLLIQUEFACTION
    A melting together; the reduction of different bodies into one mass by fusion. The incorporation of metals by simple colliquefaction. Bacon.
  • DIRECT ACTION
    See BELOW
  • UNDERACTION
    Subordinate action; a minor action incidental or subsidiary to the main story; an episode. The least episodes or underactions . . . are parts necessary or convenient to carry on the main design. Dryden.
  • ABSTRACTION
    The act process of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others; analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or

 

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