Word Meanings - CRAFTINESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Dexterity in devising and effecting a purpose; cunning; artifice; stratagem. He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. Job. v. 13.
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- ARTIFICER
A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory. Syn. -- Artisan; artist. See Artisan. (more info) 1. An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one - PURPOSELESS
Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n. - DEVISABLE
1. Capable of being devised, invented, or contrived. 2. Capable of being bequeathed, or given by will. - EFFECTUOSE; EFFECTUOUS
Effective. B. Jonson. - CUNNINGNESS
Quality of being cunning; craft. - DEXTERITY
1. Right-handedness. 2. Readiness and grace in physical activity; skill and ease in using the hands; expertness in manual acts; as, dexterity with the chisel. In youth quick bearing and dexterity. Shak. 3. Readiness in the use or control of the - 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. - DEVISAL
A devising. Whitney. - CUNNINGLY
In a cunning manner; with cunning. - CRAFTINESS
Dexterity in devising and effecting a purpose; cunning; artifice; stratagem. He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. Job. v. 13. - CUNNINGMAN
A fortune teller; one who pretends to reveal mysteries. Hudibras. - EFFECTOR
An effecter. Derham. - EFFECTUATE
To bring to pass; to effect; to achieve; to accomplish; to fulfill. A fit instrument to effectuate his desire. Sir P. Sidney. In order to effectuate the thorough reform. G. T. Curtis. - DEVISER
One who devises. - STRATAGEM
An artifice or trick in war for deceiving the enemy; hence, in general, artifice; deceptive device; secret plot; evil machination. Fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. Shak. Those oft are stratagems which error seem, Nor is it Homer nods, but - PURPOSER
1. One who brings forward or proposes anything; a proposer. 2. One who forms a purpose; one who intends. - EFFECTION
Creation; a doing. Sir M. Hale. - EFFECTLESS
Without effect or advantage; useless; bootless. Shak. -- Ef*fect"less*ly, adv. - EFFECTER
One who effects. - EFFECTUOUSLY
Effectively. - POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis - INEFFECTIVENESS
Quality of being ineffective. - 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. - AMBIDEXTERITY
A juror's taking of money from the both parties for a verdict. (more info) 1. The quality of being ambidexas, ambidexterity of argumentation. Sterne. Ignorant I was of the human frame, and of its latent powers, as regarded speed, force, - INEFFECTIVE
Not effective; ineffectual; futile; inefficient; useless; as, an ineffective appeal. The word of God, without the spirit, a dead and ineffective letter. Jer. Taylor. - UNCUNNINGLY
Ignorantly. - OVERCUNNING
Exceedingly or excessively cunning. - SELF-DEVISED
Devised by one's self.