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Word Meanings - DISEXERCISE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To deprive of exercise; to leave untrained. By disexercising and blunting our abilities. Milton.

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  • DEPRIVEMENT
    Deprivation.
  • LEAVE-TAKING
    Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak.
  • LEAVED
    Bearing, or having, a leaf or leaves; having folds; -- used in combination; as, a four-leaved clover; a two-leaved gate; long- leaved.
  • BLUNTISH
    Somewhat blunt. -- Blunt"ish*ness, n.
  • EXERCISE
    exercitum, to drive on, keep, busy, prob. orig., to thrust or drive 1. The act of exercising; a setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use; habitual activity; occupation, in
  • LEAVENING
    1. The act of making light, or causing to ferment, by means of leaven. 2. That which leavens or makes light. Bacon.
  • BLUNTLY
    In a blunt manner; coarsely; plainly; abruptly; without delicacy, or the usual forms of civility. Sometimes after bluntly giving his opinions, he would quietly lay himself asleep until the end of their deliberations. Jeffrey.
  • LEAVELESS
    Leafless. Carew.
  • LEAVEN
    alleviation, mitigation; but taken in the sense of, a raising, that 1. Any substance that produces, or is designed to produce, fermentation, as in dough or liquids; esp., a portion of fermenting dough, which, mixed with a larger quantity of dough,
  • BLUNTNESS
    1. Want of edge or point; dullness; obtuseness; want of sharpness. The multitude of elements and bluntness of angles. Holland. 2. A bruptness of address; rude plainness. "Bluntness of speech." Boyle.
  • DEPRIVER
    One who, or that which, deprives.
  • UNTRAINED
    1. Not trained. Shak. 2. Not trainable; indocile. Herbert.
  • BLUNT
    1. Having a thick edge or point, as an instrument; dull; not sharp. The murderous knife was dull and blunt. Shak. 2. Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; stupid; -- opposed to acute. His wits are not so blunt. Shak. 3. Abrupt in address;
  • MILTONIAN
    Miltonic. Lowell.
  • LEAVENOUS
    Containing leaven. Milton.
  • MILTONIC
    Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
  • LEAVER
    One who leaves, or withdraws.
  • EXERCISER
    One who exercises.
  • DEPRIVE
    1. To take away; to put an end; to destroy. 'Tis honor to deprive dishonored life. Shak. 2. To dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from possessing; to debar; to shut out from; -- with a remoter object, usually preceded by of. God hath
  • LEAVE
    To send out leaves; to leaf; -- often with out. G. Fletcher.
  • BELEAVE
    To leave or to be left. May.
  • CLEAVER
    One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces.
  • FIVE-LEAFED; FIVE-LEAVED
    Having five leaflets, as the Virginia creeper.
  • PARKLEAVES
    A European species of Saint John's-wort; the tutsan. See Tutsan.
  • CLEAVELANDITE
    A variety of albite, white and lamellar in structure.
  • CLEAVE
    clifian; akin to OS. klibon, G. kleben, LG. kliven, D. kleven, Dan. klæbe, Sw. klibba, and also to G. kleiben to cleve, paste, Icel. 1. To adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast; to cling. My bones cleave to my skin. Ps. cii. 5. The diseases of
  • FORLEAVE
    To leave off wholly. Chaucer.
  • SLEAVED
    Raw; not spun or wrought; as, sleaved thread or silk. Holinshed.
  • HAMILTON PERIOD
    A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.

 

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