Word Meanings - CONDIGNITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Merit, acguired by works, which can claim reward on the score of general benevolence. Such a worthiness of condignity, and proper merit of the heavenly glory, cannot be found in any the best, most perfect, and excellent of created beings. Bp. Bull.

Related words: (words related to CONDIGNITY)

• REWARDFUL
  Yielding reward.
• CREATURELY
  Creatural; characteristic of a creature. "Creaturely faculties." Cheyne.
• CREATIONAL
  Of or pertaining to creation.
• CREATION
  1. The act of creating or causing to exist. Specifically, the act of bringing the universe or this world into existence. From the creation to the general doom. Shak. As when a new particle of matter dotn begin to exist, in rerum natura, which had
• SCORER
  One who, or that which, scores.
• PROPER
  Properly; hence, to a great degree; very; as, proper good.
• FOUNDATION
  The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course , under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry. 4. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution,
• CREATIONISM
  The doctrine that a soul is specially created for each human being as soon as it is formed in the womb; -- opposed to traducianism.
• PERFECT
  Hermaphrodite; having both stamens and pistils; -- said of flower. Perfect cadence , a complete and satisfactory close in harmony, as upon the tonic preceded by the dominant. -- Perfect chord , a concord or union of sounds which is perfectly
• GENERALIZED
  Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type.
• GENERALIZABLE
  Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule. Extreme cases are . . . not generalizable. Coleridge
• FOUND
  1. To lay the basis of; to set, or place, as on something solid, for support; to ground; to establish upon a basis, literal or figurative; to fix firmly. I had else been perfect, Whole as the marble, founded as the rock. Shak. A man that all his
• CREATURIZE
  To make like a creature; to degrade Degrade and creaturize that mundane soul. Cudworth.
• FOUNDATIONER
  One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school.
• CREAT
  An usher to a riding master. (more info) begotten; cf. It. creato pupil, servant, Sp. criado a servant,
• GENERALTY
  Generality. Sir M. Hale.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• FOUNDEROUS
  Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road. Burke.
• MERITHAL; MERITHALLUS
  See INTERNODE
• MERITORY
  Meritorious.
• UNCREATED
  1. Deprived of existence; annihilated. Beau. & Fl. 2. Not yet created; as, misery uncreated. Milton. 3. Not existing by creation; self-existent; eternal; as, God is an uncreated being. Locke.
• MAJOR GENERAL
  . An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps.
• PANCREATIN
  One of the digestive ferments of the pancreatic juice; also, a preparation containing such a ferment, made from the pancreas of animals, and used in medicine as an aid to digestion. Note: By some the term pancreatin is restricted to the amylolytic
• CONFOUNDED
  1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
• RECLAIMABLE
  That may be reclaimed.
• REWARD
  To give in return, whether good or evil; -- commonly in a good sense; to requite; to recompense; to repay; to compensate. After the deed that is done, one doom shall reward, Mercy or no mercy as truth will accord. Piers Plowman. Thou hast rewarded
• PROCREATE
  To generate and produce; to beget; to engender.
• TEMERITY
  Unreasonable contempt of danger; extreme venturesomeness; rashness; as, the temerity of a commander in war. Syn. -- Rashness; precipitancy; heedlessness; venturesomeness. -- Temerity, Rashness. These words are closely allied in sense, but have a
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• RE-CREATE
  To create or form anew. On opening the campaign of 1776, instead of reënforcing, it was necessary to re-create, the army. Marshall.
• SHOREWARD
  Toward the shore.
• EMERITUS
  Honorably discharged from the performance of public duty on account of age, infirmity, or long and faithful services; -- said of an officer of a college or pastor of a church. (more info) emerere, emereri, to obtain by service, serve out one's
• FOUNDER
  One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.