Word Meanings - EXCEPTIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Disposed or apt to take exceptions, or to object; captious. At least effectually silence the doubtful and exceptious. South. -- Ex*cep"tious*ness, n. Barrow.
Related words: (words related to EXCEPTIOUS)
- SOUTHWEST
Pertaining to, or in the direction of, the southwest; proceeding toward the southwest; coming from the southwest; as, a southwest wind. - SOUTHSAY
See SOOTHSAY - DISPOSEMENT
Disposal. Goodwin. - SOUTHWESTERLY
To ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind. - SOUTHPAW
A pitcher who pitches with the left hand. - OBJECTIVENESS
Objectivity. Is there such a motion or objectiveness of external bodies, which produceth light Sir M. Hale - LEAST
Smallest, either in size or degree; shortest; lowest; most unimportant; as, the least insect; the least mercy; the least space. Note: Least is often used with the, as if a noun. I am the least of the apostles. 1 Cor. xv. 9. At least, or - DISPOSURE
1. The act of disposing; power to dispose of; disposal; direction. Give up My estate to his disposure. Massinger. 2. Disposition; arrangement; position; posture. In a kind of warlike disposure. Sir H. Wotton. - SOUTHERNLINESS
Southerliness. - DISPOSITED
Disposed. Glanvill. - SOUTHREN
Southern. "I am a Southren man." Chaucer. - OBJECTIST
One who adheres to, or is skilled in, the objective philosophy. Ed. Rev. - DISPOSITOR
The planet which is lord of the sign where another planet is. Crabb. (more info) 1. A disposer. - DOUBTFULLY
In a doubtful manner. Nor did the goddess doubtfully declare. Dryden. - DISPOSEDNESS
The state of being disposed or inclined; inclination; propensity. - DISPOSSESS
To put out of possession; to deprive of the actual occupancy of, particularly of land or real estate; to disseize; to eject; -- usually followed by of before the thing taken away; as, to dispossess a king of his crown. Usurp the land, and dispossess - CAPTIOUSNESS
Captious disposition or manner. - OBJECTIVATE
To objectify. - DISPOSED
1. Inclined; minded. When he was disposed to pass into Achaia. Acts xviii. 27. 2. Inclined to mirth; jolly. Beau. & Fl. Well disposed, in good condition; in good health. Chaucer. - LEASTWAYS; LEASTWISE
At least; at all events. At leastways, or At leastwise, at least. Fuller. - ASCITITIOUS
Supplemental; not inherent or original; adscititious; additional; assumed. Homer has been reckoned an ascititious name. Pope. - CONCUPISCENTIOUS
Concupiscent. - INFECTIOUSLY
In an infectious manner. Shak. - COMBUSTIOUS
Inflammable. Shak. - VITIOUS; VITIOUSLY; VITIOUSNESS
See VICIOUSNESS - FACTIOUS
1. Given to faction; addicted to form parties and raise dissensions, in opposition to government or the common good; turbulent; seditious; prone to clamor against public measures or men; -- said of persons. Factious for the house of Lancaster. - INIMICITIOUS
Inimical; unfriendly. Sterne. - DISPOSE
Etym: 1. To distribute and put in place; to arrange; to set in order; as, to dispose the ships in the form of a crescent. Who hath disposed the whole world Job xxxiv. 13. All ranged in order and disposed with grace. Pope. The rest themselves in