Word Meanings - HEARTEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To encourage; to animate; to incite or stimulate the courage of; to embolden. Hearten those that fight in your defense. Shak. 2. To restore fertility or strength to, as to land.

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• STRENGTHFUL
  Abounding in strength; full of strength; strong. -- Strength"ful*ness, n. Florence my friend, in court my faction Not meanly strengthful. Marston.
• ENCOURAGER
  One who encourages, incites, or helps forward; a favorer. The pope is . . . a great encourager of arts. Addison.
• HEARTEN
  1. To encourage; to animate; to incite or stimulate the courage of; to embolden. Hearten those that fight in your defense. Shak. 2. To restore fertility or strength to, as to land.
• THOSE
  The plural of that. See That.
• FIGHTINGLY
  Pugnaciously.
• HEARTENER
  One who, or that which, heartens, animates, or stirs up. W. Browne.
• STRENGTHENING
  That strengthens; giving or increasing strength. -- Strength"en*ing*ly, adv. Strengthening plaster , a plaster containing iron, and supposed to have tonic effects.
• EMBOLDENER
  One who emboldens.
• DEFENSER
  Defender. Foxe.
• FIGHT
  fechten, Sw. fäkta, Dan. fegte, and perh. to E. fist; cf. L. pugnare 1. To strive or contened for victory, with armies or in single combat; to attempt to defeat, subdue, or destroy an enemy, either by blows or weapons; to contend in
• ANIMATER
  One who animates. De Quincey.
• COURAGEOUSLY
  In a courageous manner.
• RESTORE
  To bring back to its former state; to bring back from a state of ruin, decay, disease, or the like; to repair; to renew; to recover. "To restore and to build Jerusalem." Dan. ix. 25. Our fortune restored after the severest afflictions. Prior. And
• INCITEMENT
  1. The act of inciting. 2. That which incites the mind, or moves to action; motive; incentive; impulse. Burke. From the long records of a distant age, Derive incitements to renew thy rage. Pope. Syn. -- Motive; incentive; spur; stimulus; impulse;
• FIGHTWITE
  A mulct or fine imposed on a person for making a fight or quarrel to the disturbance of the peace.
• STRENGTHENER
  One who, or that which, gives or adds strength. Sir W. Temple.
• STRENGTH
  1. The quality or state of being strong; ability to do or to bear; capacity for exertion or endurance, whether physical, intellectual, or moral; force; vigor; power; as, strength of body or of the arm; strength of mind, of memory, or of judgment.
• ENCOURAGEMENT
  1. The act of encouraging; incitement to action or to practice; as, the encouragement of youth in generosity. All generous encouragement of arts. Otway. 2. That which serves to incite, support, promote, or advance, as favor, countenance, reward,
• ANIMATED
  Endowed with life; full of life or spirit; indicating animation; lively; vigorous. "Animated sounds." Pope. "Animated bust." Gray. "Animated descriptions." Lewis.
• FERTILITY
  The state or quality of being fertile or fruitful; fruitfulness; productiveness; fecundity; richness; abundance of resources; fertile invention; quickness; readiness; as, the fertility of soil, or of imagination. "fertility of resource." E. Everett.
• SPATHOSE
  See SPATHIC
• ACCOURAGE
  To encourage.
• DISHEARTENMENT
  Discouragement; dejection; depression of spirits.
• FOOTFIGHT
  A conflict by persons on foot; -- distinguished from a fight on horseback. Sir P. Sidney.
• DISCOURAGEMENT
  1. The act of discouraging, or the state of being discouraged; depression or weakening of confidence; dejection. 2. That which discourages; that which deters, or tends to deter, from an undertaking, or from the prosecution of anything; a determent;
• INANIMATE
  To animate. Donne.
• CAMPFIGHT
  A duel; the decision of a case by a duel.
• EXANIMATE
  1. Lifeless; dead. "Carcasses exanimate." Spenser. 2. Destitute of animation; spiritless; disheartened. "Pale . . . wretch, exanimate by love." Thomson.
• INTERANIMATE
  To animate or inspire mutually. Donne.
• BUSHFIGHTING
  Fighting in the bush, or from behind bushes, trees, or thickets.