Word Meanings - CIRCUMVENTOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who circumvents; one who gains his purpose by cunning.

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• GAINSOME
  1. Gainful. 2. Prepossessing; well-favored. Massinger.
• PURPOSELESS
  Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.
• GAINSAY
  To contradict; to deny; to controvert; to dispute; to forbid. I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist. Luke xxi. 15. The just gods gainsay That any drop thou borrow'dst from thy mother,
• CUNNINGNESS
  Quality of being cunning; craft.
• PURPOSE
  1. That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure, or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; plan. He will his firste purpos modify. Chaucer.
• GAINSAYER
  One who gainsays, contradicts, or denies. "To convince the gainsayers." Tit. i. 9.
• CUNNINGLY
  In a cunning manner; with cunning.
• CUNNINGMAN
  A fortune teller; one who pretends to reveal mysteries. Hudibras.
• GAINSBOROUGH HAT
  A woman's broad-brimmed hat of a form thought to resemble those shown in portraits by Thomas Gainsborough, the English artist (1727-
• PURPOSER
  1. One who brings forward or proposes anything; a proposer. 2. One who forms a purpose; one who intends.
• GAINSTAND
  To withstand; to resist. Durst . . . gainstand the force of so many enraged desires. Sir P. Sidney.
• GAINSTRIVE
  To strive or struggle against; to withstand. Spenser.
• PURPOSELY
  With purpose or design; intentionally; with predetermination; designedly. In composing this discourse, I purposely declined all offensive and displeasing truths. Atterbury. So much they scorn the crowd, that if the throng By chance go right, they
• CUNNING
  1. Knowing; skillfull; dexterous. "A cunning workman." Ex. xxxviii.
• CUNNER
  A small edible fish of the Atlantic coast (Ctenolabrus adspersus); -- called also chogset, burgall, blue perch, and bait stealer. A small shellfish; the limpet or patella.
• PURPOSEFUL
  Important; material. "Purposeful accounts." Tylor. -- Pur"pose*ful*ly, adv.
• PURPOSEDLY
  In a purposed manner; according to purpose or design; purposely. A poem composed purposedly of the Trojan war. Holland.
• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.
• AGAINSAY
  To gainsay. Wyclif.
• CROSS-PURPOSE
  A conversational game, in which questions and answers are made so as to involve ludicrous combinations of ideas. Pepys. To be at cross-purposes, to misunderstand or to act counter to one another without intending it; -- said of persons. (more info)
• DISPURPOSE
  To dissuade; to frustrate; as, to dispurpose plots. A. Brewer.
• UNCUNNINGLY
  Ignorantly.
• OVERCUNNING
  Exceedingly or excessively cunning.
• AGAINST
  1. Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. Tyndale. 2. From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in
• AGAIN; AGAINS
  Against; also, towards . Albeit that it is again his kind. Chaucer.
• 'GAINST; GAINST
  A contraction of Against.
• SCUNNER
  To cause to loathe, or feel disgust at.