Word Meanings - ILLUSTRIOUSLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a illustrious manner; conspicuously; eminently; famously. Milton.

Related words: (words related to ILLUSTRIOUSLY)

• ILLUSTRIOUS
  1. Possessing luster or brightness; brilliant; luminous; splendid. Quench the light; thine eyes are guides illustrious. Beau. & Fl. 2. Characterized by greatness, nobleness, etc.; eminent; conspicuous; distinguished. Illustrious earls, renowened
• FAMOUSLY
  In a famous manner; in a distinguished degree; greatly; splendidly. Then this land was famously enriched With politic grave counsel. Shak.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• ILLUSTRIOUSNESS
  The state or quality of being eminent; greatness; grandeur; glory; fame.
• ILLUSTRIOUSLY
  In a illustrious manner; conspicuously; eminently; famously. Milton.
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• EMINENTLY
  In an eminent manner; in a high degree; conspicuously; as, to be eminently learned.
• MANNERED
  1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
• MANNER
  manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner
• MANNERCHOR
  A German men's chorus or singing club.
• MANNERLY
  Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• INFAMOUSLY
  In an infamous manner or degree; scandalously; disgracefully; shamefully. The sealed fountain of royal bounty which had been infamously monopolized and huckstered. Burke.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• 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.
• ILL-MANNERED
  Impolite; rude.
• WELL-MANNERED
  Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.
• PREEMINENTLY
  In a preëminent degree.