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Word Meanings - EMULATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Striving to excel; ambitious; emulous. "A most emulate pride." Shak.

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  • RIVALESS
    A female rival. Richardson.
  • ALLOWEDLY
    By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone.
  • ALLOW
    allocare to admit as proved, to place, use; confused with OF. aloer, fr. L. allaudare to extol; ad + laudare to praise. See Local, and cf. 1. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. Luke xi. 48. We commend
  • EQUALIZER
    One who, or that which, equalizes anything.
  • ALLOWER
    1. An approver or abettor. 2. One who allows or permits.
  • CONTESTABLE
    Capable of being contested; debatable.
  • EQUALIZE
    1. To make equal; to cause to correspond, or be like, in amount or degree as compared; as, to equalize accounts, burdens, or taxes. One poor moment can suffice To equalize the lofty and the low. Wordsworth. No system of instruction will completely
  • CONTESTATION
    1. The act of contesting; emulation; rivalry; strife; dispute. "Loverlike contestation." Milton. After years spent in domestic, unsociable contestations, she found means to withdraw. Clarendon. 2. Proof by witness; attestation; testimony. A solemn
  • STRIVE
    1. To make efforts; to use exertions; to endeavor with earnestness; to labor hard. Was for this his ambition strove To equal Cæsar first, and after, Jove Cowley. 2. To struggle in opposition; to be in contention or dispute; to contend; to contest;
  • EQUALITY
    Exact agreement between two expressions or magnitudes with respect to quantity; -- denoted by the symbol =; thus, a = x signifies that a contains the same number and kind of units of measure that x does. Confessional equality. See under
  • CHALLENGE
    The opening and crying of hounds at first finding the scent of their game. (more info) chalenge, chalonge, claim, accusation, contest, fr. L. calumnia false 1. An invitation to engage in a contest or controversy of any kind; a defiance;
  • GRANT
    yield, LL. creantare to promise, assure, for credentare to make believe, fr. L. credens, p. pr. of credere to believe. See 1. To give over; to make conveyance of; to give the possession or title of; to convey; -- usually in answer to petition.
  • EMULATE
    Striving to excel; ambitious; emulous. "A most emulate pride." Shak.
  • STRIVEN
    p. p. of Strive.
  • CONTENDER
    One who contends; a contestant.
  • STRIVED
    Striven. Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel. Rom. xv. 20.
  • ALLOWABLENESS
    The quality of being allowable; permissibleness; lawfulness; exemption from prohibition or impropriety. South.
  • COMPETENT
    in the competency of, LL. competere to strive after together, to 1. Answering to all requirements; adeqouate; sufficient; suitable; capable; legally qualified; fit. "A competent knowledge of the world." Arrerbury. "Competent age." Grafton.
  • CONTESTANT
    One who contests; an opponent; a litigant; a disputant; one who claims that which has been awarded to another.
  • ALLOWABLE
    1. Praiseworthy; laudable. Hacket. 2. Proper to be, or capable of being, allowed; permissible; admissible; not forbidden; not unlawful or improper; as, a certain degree of freedom is allowable among friends.
  • CALLOW
    1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
  • HALLOW
    To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed
  • THRYFALLOW
    To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
  • SALLOWISH
    Somewhat sallow. Dickens.
  • NONARRIVAL
    Failure to arrive.
  • UNEQUALABLE
    Not capable of being equaled or paralleled. Boyle.
  • WALLOWER
    A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.
  • IMMIGRANT
    One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence; -- correlative of emigrant. Syn. -- See Emigrant.
  • MALLOWWORT
    Any plant of the order Malvaceæ.
  • INEQUALITY
    An expression consisting of two unequal quantities, with the sign of inequality between them; as, the inequality 2 < 3, or 4 > 1. (more info) 1. The quality of being unequal; difference, or want of equality, in any respect; lack of uniformity;
  • SWALLOWFISH
    The European sapphirine gurnard . It has large pectoral fins.
  • TALLOW-FACED
    Having a sickly complexion; pale. Burton.
  • TALLOWY
    Of the nature of tallow; resembling tallow; greasy.
  • FLAGRANT
    1. Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent. The beadle's lash still flagrant on their back. Prior. A young man yet flagrant from the lash of the executioner or the beadle. De Quincey. Flagrant desires and affections. Hooker. 2. Actually in

 

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