Word Meanings - DISCONTINUER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who discontinues, or breaks off or away from; an absentee. He was no gadder abroad, not discontinuer from his convent for a long time. Fuller.

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• CONVENTIONALLY
  In a conventional manner.
• CONVENTICLING
  Belonging or going to, or resembling, a conventicle. Conventicling schools . . . set up and taught secretly by fanatics. South.
• CONVENTIONAL
  1. Formed by agreement or compact; stipulated. Conventional services reserved by tenures upon grants, made out of the crown or knights' service. Sir M. Hale. 2. Growing out of, or depending on, custom or tacit agreement; sanctioned by
• CONVENTIONALISM
  The principles or practice of conventionalizing. See Conventionalize, v. t. (more info) 1. That which is received or established by convention or arbitrary agreement; that which is in accordance with the fashion, tradition, or usage.
• FULLER
  One whose occupation is to full cloth. Fuller's earth, a variety of clay, used in scouring and cleansing cloth, to imbibe grease. -- Fuller's herb , the soapwort , formerly used to remove stains from cloth. -- Fuller's thistle or weed
• CONVENTIONIST
  One who enters into a convention, covenant, or contract.
• ABSENTEEISM
  The state or practice of an absentee; esp. the practice of absenting one's self from the country or district where one's estate is situated.
• ABSENTEE
  One who absents himself from his country, office, post, or duty; especially, a landholder who lives in another country or district than that where his estate is situated; as, an Irish absentee. Macaulay.
• CONVENT
  1. A coming together; a meeting. A usual ceremony at their convents or meetings. B. Jonson. 2. An association or community of recluses devoted to a religious life; a body of monks or nuns. One of our convent, and his confessor. Shak. 3. A house
• CONVENTIONALITY
  The state of being conventional; adherence to social formalities or usages; that which is established by conventional use; one of the customary usages of social life.
• CONVENTICAL
  Of or from, or pertaining to, a convent. "Conventical wages." Sterne. Conventical prior. See Prior.
• CONVENTIONALIST
  1. One who adheres to a convention or treaty. 2. One who is governed by conventionalism.
• CONVENTIONALIZATION
  The act of making conventional. The state of being conventional.
• CONVENTICLE
  1. A small assembly or gathering; esp., a secret assembly. They are commanded to abstain from all conventicles of men whatsoever. Ayliffe. 2. An assembly for religious worship; esp., such an assembly held privately, as in times of persecution,
• CONVENTUAL
  Of or pertaining to a convent; monastic. "A conventual garb." Macaulay. Conventual church, a church attached or belonging to a convent or monastery. Wordsworth.
• ABROAD
  1. At large; widely; broadly; over a wide space; as, a tree spreads its branches abroad. The fox roams far abroad. Prior. 2. Without a certain confine; outside the house; away from one's abode; as, to walk abroad. I went to St. James',
• DISCONTINUER
  One who discontinues, or breaks off or away from; an absentee. He was no gadder abroad, not discontinuer from his convent for a long time. Fuller.
• GADDER
  One who roves about idly, a rambling gossip.
• FULLERY
  The place or the works where the fulling of cloth is carried on.
• CONVENTIONARY
  Acting under contract; settled by express agreement; as, conventionary tenants. R. Carew.