Word Meanings - DECIPHERABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Capable of being deciphered; as, old writings not decipherable.
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- PLAINTIVE
1. Repining; complaining; lamenting. Dryden. 2. Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad. "The most plaintive ditty." Landor. -- Plain"tive*ly, adv. -- Plain"tive*ness, n. - PLAINTIFF
One who commences a personal action or suit to obtain a remedy for an injury to his rights; -- opposed to Ant: defendant. (more info) French equiv. to plaignant complainant, prosecutor, fr. plaindre. See - CALLIGRAPHIC; CALLIGRAPHICAL
Of or pertaining to calligraphy. Excellence in the calligraphic act. T. Warton. - PLAINT
A private memorial tendered to a court, in which a person sets forth his cause of action; the exhibiting of an action in writing. Blackstone. (more info) planctum , to beat, beat the breast, lament. Cf. 1. Audible expression of sorrow; - PLAINLY
In a plain manner; clearly. - PLAIN-SPOKEN
Speaking with plain, unreserved sincerity; also, spoken sincerely; as, plain-spoken words. Dryden. - PLAINTLESS
Without complaint; unrepining. "Plaintless patience." Savage. - PLAIN-HEARTED
Frank; sincere; artless. Milton. -- Plain"-heart`ed*ness, n. - PLAINSMAN
One who lives in the plains. - PLAIN-DEALING
Practicing plain dealing; artless. See Plain dealing, under Dealing. Shak. - PLAIN
To lament; to bewail; to complain. Milton. We with piteous heart unto you pleyne. Chaucer. - PLAINTFUL
Containing a plaint; complaining; expressing sorrow with an audible voice. "My plaintful tongue." Sir P. Sidney. - PLAINNESS
The quality or state of being plain. - PLAINANT
One who makes complaint; the plaintiff. - LEGIBLENESS
The state or quality of being legible. - PLAINING
Complaint. Shak. - PLAIN-LAID
Consisting of strands twisted together in the ordinary way; as, a plain-laid rope. See Illust. of Cordage. - LEGIBLE
1. Capable of being read or deciphered; distinct to the eye; plain; - - used of writing or printing; as, a fair, legible manuscript. The stone with moss and lichens so overspread, Nothing is legible but the name alone. Longfellow. 2. Capable of - DECIPHERABLE
Capable of being deciphered; as, old writings not decipherable. - ILLEGIBLE
Incapable of being read; not legible; as, illegible handwriting; an illegible inscription. -- Il*leg"i*ble*ness, n. -- Il*leg"i*bly, adv. - CHAMPLAIN PERIOD
A subdivision of the Quaternary age immediately following the Glacial period; -- so named from beds near Lake Champlain. Note: The earlier deposits of this period are diluvial in character, as if formed in connection with floods attending - EXPLAIN
out+plandare to make level or plain, planus plain: cf. OF. esplaner, 1. To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand. The horse-chestnut is . . . ready to explain its leaf. Evelyn. 2. To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear - INDECIPHERABLE
Not decipherable; incapable of being deciphered, explained, or solved. -- In`de*ci"pher*a*bly, adv. - CHAPLAINSHIP
1. The office or business of a chaplain. The Bethesda of some knight's chaplainship. Milton. 2. The possession or revenue of a chapel. Johnson. - COMPLAINTFUL
Full of complaint. - PENEPLAIN
A land surface reduced by erosion to the general condition of a plain, but not wholly devoid of hills; a base-level plain. - COMPLAINANT
1. One who makes complaint. Eager complainants of the dispute. Collier. One who commences a legal process by a complaint. The party suing in equity, answering to the plaintiff at common law. He shall forfeit one moiety to the use of the town, and - COMPLAIN
plangere to strike, beat, to beat the breast or head as a sign of 1. To give utterance to expression of grief, pain, censure, regret. etc.; to lament; to murmur; to find fault; -- commonly used with of. Also, to creak or squeak, as a timber or - UNPLAINED
Not deplored or bewailed; unlamented. Spenser.