Word Meanings - HOMISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Like a home or a home circle. Quiet, cheerful, homish hospital life. E. E. Hale.

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• CIRCLED
  Having the form of a circle; round. "Monthly changes in her circled orb." Shak.
• HOSPITAL
  hospitale , from L. hospitalis relating to a guest, hospitalia apartments for guests, fr. hospes guest. See Host a landlord, and cf. Hostel, Hotel, 1. A place for shelter or entertainment; an inn. Spenser. 2. A building in which the
• HOSPITALITY
  The act or practice of one who is hospitable; reception and entertainment of strangers or guests without reward, or with kind and generous liberality. Given to hospitality. Rom. xii. 13. And little recks to find the way to heaven By doing deeds
• QUIETER
  One who, or that which, quiets.
• CIRCLE
  An instrument of observation, the graduated limb of which consists of an entire circle. Note: When it is fixed to a wall in an observatory, it is called a mural circle; when mounted with a telescope on an axis and in Y's, in the plane
• QUIET
  p. pf quiescere to rest, keep quiet; akin to quies rest, and prob. to E. while, n. See While, and cf. Coy, a., Quiesce, Quietus, Quit, a., 1. In a state of rest or calm; without stir, motion, or agitation; still; as, a quiet sea; quiet air. They
• CHEERFULNESS
  Good spirits; a state of moderate joy or gayety; alacrity.
• HOSPITALER
  1. One residing in a hospital, for the purpose of receiving the poor, the sick, and strangers. 2. One of an order of knights who built a hospital at Jerusalem for pilgrims, A. D. 1042. They were called Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, and after
• QUIETISM
  The system of the Quietists, who maintained that religion consists in the withdrawal of the mind from worldly interests and anxieties and its constant employment in the passive contemplation of God and his attributes. (more info) 1. Peace
• QUIETSOME
  Calm; still. Spenser.
• QUIETLY
  1. In a quiet state or manner; without motion; in a state of rest; as, to lie or sit quietly. 2. Without tumult, alarm, dispute, or disturbance; peaceably; as, to live quietly; to sleep quietly. 3. Calmly, without agitation or violent emotion;
• CIRCLET
  1. A little circle; esp., an ornament for the person, having the form of a circle; that which encircles, as a ring, a bracelet, or a headband. Her fair locks in circlet be enrolled. Spenser. 2. A round body; an orb. Pope. Fairest of stars . . .
• QUIETISTIC
  Of or pertaining to the Quietists, or to Quietism.
• CHEERFUL
  Having or showing good spirits or joy; cheering; cheery; contented; happy; joyful; lively; animated; willing. To entertain a cheerful disposition. Shak. The cheerful birds of sundry kind Do chant sweet music. Spenser. A cheerful confidence in the
• HOMISH
  Like a home or a home circle. Quiet, cheerful, homish hospital life. E. E. Hale.
• QUIETAGE
  Quietness. Spenser.
• HOSPITALISM
  A vitiated condition of the body, due to long confinement in a hospital, or the morbid condition of the atmosphere of a hospital.
• QUIETUS
  Final discharge or acquittance, as from debt or obligation; that which silences claims; rest; death. When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin. Shak.
• CIRCLER
  A mean or inferior poet, perhaps from his habit of wandering around as a stroller; an itinerant poet. Also, a name given to the cyclic poets. See under Cyclic, a. B. Jonson.
• HOSPITALIZE
  To render unfit for habitation, by long continued use as a hospital.
• DISQUIETTUDE
  Want of peace or tranquility; uneasiness; disturbance; agitation; anxiety. Fears and disquietude, and unavoidable anxieties of mind. Abp. Sharp.
• DISQUIETLY
  In a disquiet manner; uneasily; as, he rested disquietly that night. Wiseman.
• UNQUIET
  To disquiet. Ld. Herbert.
• DISQUIETMENT
  State of being disquieted; uneasiness; harassment. Hopkins.
• INCIRCLE
  See ENCIRCLE
• PARQUET CIRCLE
  That part of the lower floor of a theater with seats at the rear of the parquet and beneath the galleries; -- called also, esp. in U. S., orchestra circle or parterre.
• DRESS CIRCLE
  A gallery or circle in a theater, generally the first above the floor, in which originally dress clothes were customarily worn.
• DISQUIETOUS
  Causing uneasiness. So distasteful and disquietous to a number of men. Milton.
• INHOSPITALITY
  The quality or state of being inhospitable; inhospitableness; lack of hospitality. Bp. Hall.
• INQUIETATION
  Disturbance. Sir T. Elyot.
• INQUIET
  To disquiet. Joye.
• DISQUIETNESS
  Disturbance of quiet in body or mind; restlessness; uneasiness. Hooker.