Word Meanings - DISPRINCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To make unlike a prince. For I was drench'd with ooze, and torn with briers, . . . And, all one rag, disprinced from head to heel. Tennyson.
Related words: (words related to DISPRINCE)
- PRINCELESS
Without a prince. Fuller. - PRINCEDOM
The jurisdiction, sovereignty, rank, or estate of a prince. Thrones, princedoms, powers, dominions, I reduce. Milton. - PRINCELY
1. Of or relating to a prince; regal; royal; of highest rank or authority; as, princely birth, character, fortune, etc. 2. Suitable for, or becoming to, a prince; grand; august; munificent; magnificent; as, princely virtues; a princely fortune. - PRINCEHOOD
Princeliness. E. Hall. - UNLIKEN
To make unlike; to dissimilate. Wyclif. - PRINCESSE
A term applied to a lady's long, close-fitting dress made with waist and skirt in one. - PRINCE
1. The one of highest rank; one holding the highest place and authority; a sovereign; a monarch; -- originally applied to either sex, but now rarely applied to a female. Wyclif . Go, Michael, of celestial armies prince. Milton. Queen Elizabeth, - PRINCELET
A petty prince. - DRENCHER
1. One who, or that which, west or steeps. 2. One who administers a drench. - PRINCEWOOD
The wood of two small tropical American trees (Hamelia ventricosa, and Cordia gerascanthoides). It is brownish, veined with lighter color. - PRINCESS
1. A female prince; a woman having sovereign power, or the rank of a prince. Dryden. So excellent a princess as the present queen. Swift. 2. The daughter of a sovereign; a female member of a royal family. Shak. 3. The consort of a prince; as, the - UNLIKELIHOOD
Absence of likelihood. - DRENCH
1. To cause to drink; especially, to dose by force; to put a potion down the throat of, as of a horse; hence. to purge violently by physic. As "to fell," is "to make to fall," and "to lay," to make to lie." so "to drench," is "to make to drink." - TENNYSONIAN
Of or pertaining to Alfred Tennyson, the English poet ; resembling, or having some of the characteristics of, his poetry, as simplicity, pictorial quality, sensuousness, etc. - PRINCELIKE
Princely. Shak. - DISPRINCE
To make unlike a prince. For I was drench'd with ooze, and torn with briers, . . . And, all one rag, disprinced from head to heel. Tennyson. - PRINCELINESS
The quality of being princely; the state, manner, or dignity of a prince. - PRINCEKIN
A petty prince; a princeling. The princekins of private life. Thackeray. - UNLIKELY
1. Not likely; improbable; not to be reasonably expected; as, an unlikely event; the thing you mention is very unlikely. 2. Not holding out a prospect of success; likely to fail; unpromising; as, unlikely means. Hooker. 3. Not such as to inspire - PRINCESSLIKE
Like a princess. - INDRENCH
To overwhelm with water; to drench; to drown. Shak. - HORSE-DRENCH
1. A dose of physic for a horse. Shak. 2. The appliance by which the dose is administred. - BEDRENCH
To drench; to saturate with moisture; to soak. Shak. - UNPRINCE
To deprive of the character or authority of a prince; to divest of principality of sovereignty. Swift. - SUNLIKE
Like or resembling the sun. "A spot of sunlike brilliancy." Tyndall.