Word Meanings - GREENHORN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A raw, inexperienced person; one easily imposed upon. W. Irving.
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- IMPOSABLE
Capable of being imposed or laid on. Hammond. - PERSONNEL
The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel. - PERSONIFICATION
A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying; - IMPOSINGNESS
The quality of being imposing. - IMPOSTRESS; IMPOSTRIX
A woman who imposes upon or deceives others. Fuller. - PERSONIZE
To personify. Milton has personized them. J. Richardson. - IMPOSTURAGE
Imposture; cheating. Jer. Taylor. - PERSONATE
To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. In fable, hymn, or song so personating Their gods ridiculous. Milton. - IMPOSTOR
One who imposes upon others; a person who assumes a character or title not his own, for the purpose of deception; a pretender. "The fraudulent impostor foul." Milton. Syn. -- Deceiver; cheat; rogue. See Deceiver. - PERSONATOR
One who personates. "The personators of these actions." B. Jonson. - IMPOSTHUMATION
1. The act of forming an abscess; state of being inflamed; suppuration. 2. An abscess; an imposthume. Coxe. - IMPOSING
1. Laying as a duty; enjoining. 2. Adapted to impress forcibly; impressive; commanding; as, an imposing air; an imposing spectacle. "Large and imposing edifices." Bp. Hobart. 3. Deceiving; deluding; misleading. - PERSONAL
Denoting person; as, a personal pronoun. Personal action , a suit or action by which a man claims a debt or personal duty, or damages in lieu of it; or wherein he claims satisfaction in damages for an injury to his person or property, - PERSONIFY
1. To regard, treat, or represent as a person; to represent as a rational being. The poets take the liberty of personifying inanimate things. Chesterfield. 2. To be the embodiment or personification of; to impersonate; as, he personifies the law. - PERSONIFIER
One who personifies. - IMPOSTURY
Imposture. Fuller. - IMPOSE
To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination. (more info) Etym: 1. To lay on; to set or place; to put; to deposit. Cakes of salt and barley did impose Within a wicker basket. Chapman. 2. To lay as a - IMPOSINGLY
In an imposing manner. - IMPOSTROUS
Characterized by imposture; deceitful. "Impostrous pretense of knowledge." Grote. - IMPOSTHUME
A collection of pus or purulent matter in any part of an animal body; an abscess. - NIRVANA
In the Buddhist system of religion, the final emancipation of the soul from transmigration, and consequently a beatific enfrachisement from the evils of wordly existence, as by annihilation or absorption into the divine. See Buddhism. - UNIPERSONAL
Used in only one person, especially only in the third person, as some verbs; impersonal. (more info) 1. Existing as one, and only one, person; as, a unipersonal God. - UNIPERSONALIST
One who believes that the Deity is unipersonal. - TRIPERSONALITY
The state of existing as three persons in one Godhead; trinity. - IMPERSONATION; IMPERSONIFICATION
The act of impersonating; personification; investment with personality; representation in a personal form. - TRIPERSONAL
Consisting of three persons. Milton. - SIRVENTE
A peculiar species of poetry, for the most part devoted to moral and religious topics, and commonly satirical, -- often used by the troubadours of the Middle Ages. (more info) originally, the poem of, or concerning, a sirvent, fr. sirvent, - MONOPERSONAL
Having but one person, or form of existence. - SELF-IMPOSTURE
Imposture practiced on one's self; self-deceit. South.