Word Meanings - CONTRIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To make sad. To deject and contrist myself. Sterne.
Related words: (words related to CONTRIST)
- DEJECTION
1. A casting down; depression. Hallywell. 2. The act of humbling or abasing one's self. Adoration implies submission and dejection. Bp. Pearson. 3. Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy. What besides, - DEJECTORY
1. Having power, or tending, to cast down. 2. Promoting evacuations by stool. Ferrand. - CONTRIST
To make sad. To deject and contrist myself. Sterne. - DEJECTURE
That which is voided; excrements. Arbuthnot. - DEJECTLY
Dejectedly. - MYSELF
I or me in person; -- used for emphasis, my own self or person; as I myself will do it; I have done it myself; -- used also instead of me, as the object of the first person of a reflexive verb, without emphasis; as, I will defend myself. - STERNER
A director. Dr. R. Clerke. - STERNED
Having a stern of a particular shape; -- used in composition; as, square-sterned. - DEJECTER
One who casts down, or dejects. - CONTRISTATE
To make sorrowful. Bacon. - DEJECTA
Excrements; as, the dejecta of the sick. - DEJECT
1. To cast down. Christ dejected himself even unto the hells. Udall. Sometimes she dejects her eyes in a seeming civility; and many mistake in her a cunning for a modest look. Fuller. 2. To cast down the spirits of; to dispirit; to discourage; - STERNEBRA
One of the segments of the sternum. -- Ster"ne*bral, a. - DEJECTED
Cast down; afflicted; low-spirited; sad; as, a dejected look or countenance. -- De*ject"ed*ly, adv. -- De*ject"ed*ness, n. - PINK-STERNED
Having a very narrow stern; -- said of a vessel. - WESTERNER
A native or inhabitant of the west.