Word Meanings - DEHORTATORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Fitted or designed to dehort or dissuade. Bp. Hall.

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• DESIGN
  drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace
• DEHORTER
  A dissuader; an adviser to the contrary.
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• DEHORTATION
  Dissuasion; advice against something.
• DEHORT
  To urge to abstain or refrain; to dissuade. The apostles vehemently dehort us from unbelief. Bp. Ward. "Exhort" remains, but dehort, a word whose place neither "dissuade" nor any other exactly supplies, has escaped us. Trench. (more info) Etym:
• DEHORTATIVE
  Dissuasive.
• DESIGNATOR
  An officer who assigned to each his rank and place in public shows and ceremonies. 2. One who designates.
• DESIGNATIVE
  Serving to designate or indicate; pointing out.
• DESIGNFUL
  Full of design; scheming. -- De*sign"ful*ness, n. Barrow.
• DESIGNEDLY
  By design; purposely; intentionally; -- opposed to accidentally, ignorantly, or inadvertently.
• DEHORTATORY
  Fitted or designed to dehort or dissuade. Bp. Hall.
• DESIGNLESS
  Without design. -- De*sign"less*ly, adv.
• DISSUADER
  One who dissuades; a dehorter.
• FITTEDNESS
  The state or quality of being fitted; adaptation. Dr. H. More.
• DESIGNER
  One who produces or creates original works of art or decoration. 3. A plotter; a schemer; -- used in a bad sense. (more info) 1. One who designs, marks out, or plans; a contriver.
• FITTING
  Anything used in fitting up; especially ,
• DISSUADE
  1. To advise or exhort against; to try to persuade (one from a course). Mr. Burchell, on the contrary, dissuaded her with great ardor: and I stood neuter. Goldsmith. War, therefore, open or concealed, alike My voice dissuades. Milton. 2. To divert
• DESIGNING
  Intriguing; artful; scheming; as, a designing man.
• DESIGNMENT
  1. Delineation; sketch; design; ideal; invention. For though that some mean artist's skill were shown In mingling colors, or in placing light, Yet still the fair designment was his own. Dryden. 2. Design; purpose; scheme. Shak.
• DESIGNABLE
  Capable of being designated or distinctly marked out; distinguishable. Boyle.
• FOREDESIGN
  To plan beforehand; to intend previously. Cheyne.
• OUTFITTER
  One who furnishes outfits for a voyage, a journey, or a business.
• BEFITTINGLY
  In a befitting manner; suitably.
• PREDESIGNATE
  A term used by Sir William Hamilton to define propositions having their quantity indicated by a verbal sign; as, all, none, etc.; -- contrasted with preindesignate, defining propositions of which the quantity is not so indicated.