Word Meanings - IRRECUSABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not liable to exception or rejection. Sir W. Hamilton. (more info) recusabilis that should be rejected, fr. recusare to reject: cf. F.

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• SHOULDER-SHOTTEN
  Sprained in the shoulder, as a horse. Shak.
• EXCEPTIONER
  One who takes exceptions or makes objections. Milton.
• REJECTER
  One who rejects.
• SHOULDERED
  Having shoulders; -- used in composition; as, a broad- shouldered man. "He was short-shouldered." Chaucer.
• REJECT
  re- + jacere to throw: cf. F. rejeter, formerly also spelt rejecter. 1. To cast from one; to throw away; to discard. Therefore all this exercise of hunting . . . the Utopians have rejected to their butchers. Robynson . Reject me not from among
• EXCEPTIONAL
  Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare; hence, better than the average; superior. Lyell. This particular spot had exceptional advantages. Jowett -- Ex*cep"tion*al*ly , adv.
• SHOULDER
  The joint, or the region of the joint, by which the fore limb is connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle; the projection formed by the bones and muscles about that joint. 2. The flesh and muscles connected with the shoulder joint; the
• REJECTANEOUS
  Not chosen orr received; rejected. "Profane, rejectaneous, and reprobate people." Barrow.
• REJECTION
  Act of rejecting, or state of being rejected.
• REJECTABLE
  Capable of being, or that ought to be, rejected.
• 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.
• EXCEPTIONABLE
  Liable to exception or objection; objectionable. -- Ex*cep"tion*a*ble*ness, n. This passage I look upon to be the most exceptionable in the whole poem. Addison.
• REJECTIVE
  Rejecting, or tending to reject.
• REJECTMENT
  Act of rejecting; matter rejected, or thrown away. Eaton.
• EXCEPTIONLESS
  Without exception. A universal, . . . exceptionless disqualification. Bancroft.
• EXCEPTION
  An objection, oral or written, taken, in the course of an action, as to bail or security; or as to the decision of a judge, in the course of a trail, or in his charge to a jury; or as to lapse of time, or scandal, impertinence, or insufficiency
• SHOULD
  Used as an auxiliary verb, to express a conditional or contingent act or state, or as a supposition of an actual fact; also, to express moral obligation ; e. g.: they should have come last week; if I should go; I should think you could go. "You
• REJECTAMENTA
  Things thrown out or away; especially, things excreted by a living organism. J. Fleming.
• REJECTITIOUS
  Implying or requiring rejection; rejectable. Cudworth.
• LIABLE
  1. Bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; answerable; as, the surety is liable for the debt of his principal. 2. Exposed to a certain contingency or casualty, more or less probable; -- with to and an infinitive or noun; as, liable to slip;
• UNAPPLIABLE
  Inapplicable. Milton.
• HUMP-SHOULDERED
  Having high, hunched shoulders. Hawthorne.
• PLIABLE
  1. Capable of being plied, turned, or bent; easy to be bent; flexible; pliant; supple; limber; yielding; as, willow is a pliable plant. 2. Flexible in disposition; readily yielding to influence, arguments, persuasion, or discipline; easy to be
• COMPLIABLE
  Capable of bending or yielding; apt to yield; compliant. Another compliable mind. Milton. The Jews . . . had made their religion compliable, and accemodated to their passions. Jortin.
• IRREJECTABLE
  That can not be rejected; irresistible. Boyle.
• CONCILIABLE
  A small or private assembly, especially of an ecclesiastical nature. Bacon.
• RELIABLE
  Suitable or fit to be relied on; worthy of dependance or reliance; trustworthy. "A reliable witness to the truth of the miracles." A. Norton. The best means, and most reliable pledge, of a higher object. Coleridge. According to General Livingston's
• ROUND-SHOULDERED
  Having the shoulders stooping or projecting; round-backed.