Word Meanings - JUPITER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The supreme deity, king of gods and men, and reputed to be the son of Saturn and Rhea; Jove. He corresponds to the Greek Zeus.

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• SATURNISM
  Plumbum. Quain.
• SUPREME
  Situated at the highest part or point. The Supreme, the Almighty; God. (more info) above, upper, fr. super above: cf. F. suprême. See Super-, and cf. 1. Highest in authority; holding the highest place in authority, government, or power. He that
• REPUTATION
  The character imputed to a person in the community in which he lives. It is admissible in evidence when he puts his character in issue, or when such reputation is otherwise part of the issue of a case. 3. Specifically: Good reputation; favorable
• GREEK CALENDS; GREEK KALENDS
  A time that will never come, as the Greeks had no calends.
• GREEKLING
  A little Greek, or one of small esteem or pretensions. B. Jonson.
• SATURNALIA
  the festival of Saturn, celebrated in December, originally during one day, but afterward during seven days, as a period of unrestrained license and merriment for all classes, extending even to the slaves. 2. Hence: A period or occasion of general
• GREEKISH
  Peculiar to Greece.
• REPUTATIVELY
  By repute.
• SATURN
  One of the elder and principal deities, the son of Coelus and Terra , anf the father of Jupiter. The corresponding Greek divinity was Kro`nos, later CHro`nos, Time.
• REPUTELESS
  Not having good repute; disreputable; disgraceful; inglorius. Shak.
• SUPREMELY
  In a supreme manner.
• SATURNALIAN
  1. Of or pertaining to the Saturnalia. 2. Of unrestrained and intemperate jollity; riotously merry; dissolute. "Saturnalian amusement." Burke.
• DEITY
  fr. deus a god; akin to divus divine, Jupiter, gen. Jovis, Jupiter, dies day, Gr. d divine, as a noun, god, daiva divine, dy sky, day, hence, the sky personified as a god, and to the first syllable of E. Tuesday, Gael. & Ir. dia God, W. duw. Cf.
• REPUTABLE
  Having, or worthy of, good repute; held in esteem; honorable; praiseworthy; as, a reputable man or character; reputable conduct. In the article of danger, it is as reputable to elude an enemy as defeat one. Broome. Syn. -- Respectable; creditable;
• GREEKESS
  A female Greek.
• REPUTEDLY
  In common opinion or estimation; by repute.
• SATURNIAN
  Of or pertaining to Saturn, whose age or reign, from the mildness and wisdom of his government, is called the golden age. 2. Hence: Resembling the golden age; distinguished for peacefulness, happiness, contentment. Augustus, born to bring Saturnian
• SATURNINE
  Of or pertaining to lead; characterized by, or resembling, lead, which was formerly called Saturn. Saturnine colic , lead colic. (more info) Saturn: cf. F. saturnin of or pertaining to lead (Saturn, in old 1. Born under, or influenced by, the
• GREEK CALENDAR
  1. Any of various calendars used by the ancient Greek states. The Attic calendar divided the year into twelve months of 29 and 30 days, as follows: 1. Hecatombæon . 2. Metageitnion . 3. Boëdromion . 4. Pyanepsion . 5. Mæmacterion
• SATURNIST
  A person of a dull, grave, gloomy temperament. W. browne.
• UNREPUTABLE
  Disreputable.
• DISREPUTABILITY
  The state of being disreputable.
• PREPUTIAL
  Of or pertaining to the prepuce.
• FENUGREEK
  A plant cultivated for its strong- smelling seeds, which are "now only used for giving false importance to horse medicine and damaged hay." J. Smith (Pop. Names of Plants,
• NEO-GREEK
  A member of a body of French painters of the middle 19th century. The term is rather one applied by outsiders to certain artists of grave and refined style, such as Hamon and Aubert, than a name adopted by the artists themselves.
• DISREPUTABLE
  Not reputable; of bad repute; not in esteem; dishonorable; disgracing the reputation; tending to bring into disesteem; as, it is disreputable to associate familiarly with the mean, the lewd, and the profane. Why should you think that conduct
• FAINEANT DEITY
  A deity recognized as real but conceived as not acting in human affairs, hence not worshiped.
• COSUPREME
  A partaker of supremacy; one jointly supreme. Shak.
• MISREPUTE
  To have in wrong estimation; to repute or estimate erroneously.