Word Meanings - ILLAUDABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Not laudable; not praise-worthy; worthy of censure or disapprobation. Milton. -- Il*laud"a*bly, adv. Broome.
Related words: (words related to ILLAUDABLE)
- PRAISEWORTHINESS
The quality or state of being praiseworthy. - CENSURER
One who censures. Sha. - LAUDABLE
Healthy; salubrious; normal; having a disposition to promote healing; not noxious; as, laudable juices of the body; laudable pus. Arbuthnot. (more info) 1. Worthy of being lauded; praiseworthy; commendable; as, laudable motives; laudable actions; - PRAISER
1. One who praises. "Praisers of men." Sir P. Sidney. 2. An appraiser; a valuator. Sir T. North. - LAUDABLENESS
The quality of being laudable; praiseworthiness; commendableness. - DISAPPROBATION
The act of disapproving; mental condemnation of what is judged wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; feeling of censure. We have ever expressed the most unqualified disapprobation of all the steps. Burke. - PRAISEMENT
Appraisement. - CENSURE
1. Judgment either favorable or unfavorable; opinion. Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Shak. 2. The act of blaming or finding fault with and condemning as wrong; reprehension; blame. Both the censure and the praise were merited. - PRAISELESS
Without praise or approbation. - PRAISEWORTHILY
In a praiseworthy manner. Spenser. - WORTHY
worthi, wurÞi, from worth, wurÞ, n.; cf. Icel. verthugr, D. waardig, 1. Having worth or excellence; possessing merit; valuable; deserving; estimable; excellent; virtuous. Full worthy was he in his lordes war. Chaucer. These banished men that - PRAISE
fr. pretium price. See Price, n., and cf. Appreciate, Praise, n., 1. To commend; to applaud; to express approbation of; to laud; -- applied to a person or his acts. "I praise well thy wit." Chaucer. Let her own works praise her in the gates. Prov. - MILTONIAN
Miltonic. Lowell. - MILTONIC
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose. - PRAISE-MEETING
A religious service mainly in song. - PRAISEFUL
Praiseworthy. - PRAISEWORTHY
Worthy of praise or applause; commendable; as, praiseworthy action; he was praiseworthy. Arbuthnot. - APPRAISER
One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates. - OVERPRAISE
To praise excessively or unduly. - SUPERPRAISE
To praise to excess. To vow, and swear, and superpraise my parts. Shak. - APPRAISE
1. To set a value; to estimate the worth of, particularly by persons appointed for the purpose; as, to appraise goods and chattels. 2. To estimate; to conjecture. Enoch . . . appraised his weight. Tennyson. 3. To praise; to commend. R. Browning. - LAUGHWORTHY
Deserving to be laughed at. B. Jonson. - SEAWORTHY
Fit for a voyage; worthy of being trusted to transport a cargo with safety; as, a seaworthy ship. - 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. - MISCENSURE
To misjudge. Daniel. -- n. - DISPRAISER
One who blames or dispraises.