Word Meanings - GENTILIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To live like a gentile or heathen. Milton. 2. To act the gentleman; -- with it .

Related words: (words related to GENTILIZE)

• HEATHENISHNESS
  The state or quality of being heathenish. "The . . . heathenishness and profaneness of most playbooks." Prynne.
• HEATHENRY
  1. The state, quality, or character of the heathen. Your heathenry and your laziness. C. Kingsley. 2. Heathendom; heathen nations.
• HEATHENISM
  1. The religious system or rites of a heathen nation; idolatry; paganism. 2. The manners or morals usually prevalent in a heathen country; ignorance; rudeness; barbarism.
• HEATHENISH
  1. Of or pertaining to the heathen; resembling or characteristic of heathens. "Worse than heathenish crimes." Milton. 2. Rude; uncivilized; savage; cruel. South. 3. Irreligious; as, a heathenish way of living.
• HEATHENIZE
  To render heathen or heathenish. Firmin.
• GENTLEMANHOOD
  The qualities or condition of a gentleman. Thackeray.
• HEATHENISHLY
  In a heathenish manner.
• GENTLEMANLIKE; GENTLEMANLY
  Of, pertaining to, resembling, or becoming, a gentleman; well- behaved; courteous; polite.
• HEATHENDOM
  1. That part of the world where heathenism prevails; the heathen nations, considered collectively. 2. Heathenism. C. Kingsley.
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• GENTILESSE
  Gentleness; courtesy; kindness; nobility. Chaucer.
• HEATHENNESS
  State of being heathen or like the heathen.
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• GENTLEMAN
  One who bears arms, but has no title. 4. The servant of a man of rank. The count's gentleman, one Cesario. Shak. 5. A man, irrespective of condition; -- used esp. in the plural (= citizens; people), in addressing men in popular assemblies, etc.
• GENTLEMANLINESS
  The state of being gentlemanly; gentlemanly conduct or manners.
• HEATHEN
  hethen, AS. h, prop. an adj. fr. h heath, and orig., therefore, one who lives in the country or on the heaths and in the woods (cf. pagan, fr. pagus village); akin to OS. h, adj., D. heiden a heathen, G. heide, OHG. heidan, Icel. hei, adj., Sw.
• GENTILE-FALCON
  See FALCON-GENTIL
• GENTLEMANSHIP
  The carriage or quality of a gentleman.
• HEATHENESSE
  Heathendom. Chaucer. Sir W. Scott.
• GENTILE
  One of a non-Jewish nation; one neither a Jew nor a Christian; a worshiper of false gods; a heathen. Note: The Hebrews included in the term goyim, or nations, all the tribes of men who had not received the true faith, and were not circumcised. The
• 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.
• OLD-GENTLEMANLY
  Pertaining to an old gentleman, or like one. Byron.