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Word Meanings - EMEUTE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A seditious tumult; an outbreak.

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  • RIS
    A bough or branch; a twig. As white as is the blossom upon the ris. Chaucer.
  • RISIBLE
    1. Having the faculty or power of laughing; disposed to laugh. Laughing is our busines, . . . it has been made the definition of man that he is risible. Dr. H. More. 2. Exciting laughter; worthy to be laughed at; amusing. "Risible absurdities."
  • SEDITION
    L. seditio, originally, a going aside; hence, an insurrectionary separation; pref. se-, sed-, aside + itio a going, fr. ire, itum, to 1. The raising of commotion in a state, not amounting to insurrection; conduct tending to treason, but without
  • CHANGEFUL
    Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain. Pope. His course had been changeful. Motley. -- Change"ful*ly, adv. -- Change"ful*ness, n.
  • RISQUE; RISQUEE
    Hazardous; risky; esp., fig., verging upon impropriety; dangerously close to, or suggestive of, what is indecent or of doubtful morality; as, a risqué story. Henry Austin.
  • MUTINY
    mutiner, fr. F. mutin stubborn, mutinous, fr. OF. meute riot, LL. 1. Insurrection against constituted authority, particularly military or naval authority; concerted revolt against the rules of discipline or the lawful commands of a superior
  • RIST
    3d pers. sing. pres. of Rise, contracted from riseth. Chaucer.
  • RETAINMENT
    The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
  • INSURRECTIONIST
    One who favors, or takes part in, insurrection; an insurgent.
  • RETURNLESS
    Admitting no return. Chapman.
  • STANDARD
    The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority. By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver. Arbuthnot. (more info) extendere to spread out, extend,
  • STANDPOINT
    A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are compared and judged.
  • ALTERATION
    1. The act of altering or making different. Alteration, though it be from worse to better, hath in it incoveniences. Hooker. 2. The state of being altered; a change made in the form or nature of a thing; changed condition. Ere long might perceive
  • RISEN
    1. p. p. & a. from Rise. "Her risen Son and Lord." Keble. 2. Obs. imp. pl. of Rise. Chaucer.
  • STANDPIPE
    A vertical pipe, open at the top, between a hydrant and a reservoir, to equalize the flow of water; also, a large vertical pipe, near a pumping engine, into which water is forced up, so as to give it sufficient head to rise to the required level
  • ENDUREMENT
    Endurance. South.
  • CHANGEABLY
    In a changeable manner.
  • ROTATION
    1. The act of turning, as a wheel or a solid body on its axis, as distinguished from the progressive motion of a revolving round another body or a distant point; thus, the daily turning of the earth on its axis is a rotation; its annual motion
  • EMEUTE
    A seditious tumult; an outbreak.
  • REBELLION
    Among the Romans rebellion was originally a revolt or open resistance to their government by nations that had been subdued in war. It was a 1. The act of rebelling; open and avowed renunciation of the authority of the government to which one owes
  • HORRISONOUS
    Sounding dreadfully; uttering a terrible sound. Bailey.
  • ENTERPRISER
    One who undertakes enterprises. Sir J. Hayward.
  • TRISYLLABIC; TRISYLLABICAL
    Of or pertaining to a trisyllable; consisting of three syllables; as, "syllable" is a trisyllabic word. -- Tris`yllab"ic*al*ly, adv.
  • GRISLY
    Frightful; horrible; dreadful; harsh; as, grisly locks; a grisly specter. "Grisly to behold." Chaucer. A man of grisly and stern gravity. Robynson . Grisly bear. See under Grizzly. (more info) gro shudder; cf. OD. grijselick horrible,
  • GRISTMILL
    A mill for grinding grain; especially, a mill for grinding grists, or portions of grain brought by different customers; a custom mill.
  • CHARACTERISTIC
    Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
  • SPAGYRIST
    1. A chemist, esp. one devoted to alchemistic pursuits. 2. One of a sect which arose in the days of alchemy, who sought to discover remedies for disease by chemical means. The spagyrists historically preceded the iatrochemists. Encyc. Brit.
  • LUTHERANISM; LUTHERISM
    The doctrines taught by Luther or held by the Lutheran Church.
  • METAPHORIST
    One who makes metaphors.
  • ARTILLERIST
    A person skilled in artillery or gunnery; a gunner; an artilleryman.
  • TANTRISM
    The system of doctrines and rites taught in the tantras. -- Tan"trist , n.
  • PERISTALSIS
    Peristaltic contraction or action.
  • IMPARISYLLABIC
    Not consisting of an equal number of syllables; as, an imparisyllabic noun, one which has not the same number of syllables in all the cases; as, lapis, lapidis; mens, mentis.
  • PURISM
    Rigid purity; the quality of being affectedly pure or nice, especially in the choice of language; over-solicitude as to purity. "His political purism." De Quincey. The English language, however, . . . had even already become too thoroughly
  • PORISMATIC; PORISMATICAL
    Of or pertaining to a porism; poristic.
  • PANDARISM
    See SWIFT
  • GRIST
    1. Ground corn; that which is ground at one time; as much grain as is carried to the mill at one time, or the meal it produces. Get grist to the mill to have plenty in store. Tusser. Q. 2. Supply; provision. Swift. 3. In rope making, a given size
  • NATURISM
    The belief or doctrine that attributes everything to nature as a sanative agent.
  • ASTERISK
    The figure of a star, thus,

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