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Word Meanings - LANDREEVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A subordinate officer on an extensive estate, who acts as an assistant to the steward.

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  • ASSISTANTLY
    In a manner to give aid.
  • STEWARDSHIP
    The office of a steward. Shak.
  • EXTENSIVELY
    To a great extent; widely; largely; as, a story is extensively circulated.
  • SUBORDINATE
    1. Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position. The several kinds and subordinate species of each are easily distinguished. Woodward. 2. Inferior in order, nature, dignity, power, importance, or the like. It was
  • STEWARDESS
    A female steward; specifically, a woman employed in passenger vessels to attend to the wants of female passengers.
  • OFFICER
    Specifically, a commissioned officer, in distinction from a warrant officer. Field officer, General officer, etc. See under Field, General. etc. -- Officer of the day , the officer who, on a given day, has charge for that day of the quard,
  • ESTATE
    The great classes or orders of a community or state (as the clergy, the nobility, and the commonalty of England) or their representatives who administer the government; as, the estates of the realm , which are the lords spiritual, the lords
  • EXTENSIVENESS
    The state of being extensive; wideness; largeness; extent; diffusiveness.
  • EXTENSIVE
    1. Having wide extent; of much superficial extent; expanded; large; broad; wide; comprehensive; as, an extensive farm; an extensive lake; an extensive sphere of operations; extensive benevolence; extensive greatness. 2. Capable of being extended.
  • ASSISTANT
    Of the second grade in the staff of the army; as, an assistant surgeon. Note: In the English army it designates the third grade in any particular branch of the staff. Farrow. (more info) 1. Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary. Genius and
  • STEWARD
    a sty ward; stigu sty + weard warden, guardian, -- his first duty having been probably to attend to the domestic animals. *164. See Sty 1. A man employed in a large family, or on a large estate, to manage the domestic concerns, supervise other
  • STEWARDLY
    In a manner, or with the care, of a steward. To be stewardly dispensed, not wastefully spent. Tooker.
  • INSUBORDINATE
    Not submitting to authority; disobedient; rebellious; mutinous
  • REESTATE
    To reëstablish. Walis.
  • DEHONESTATE
    To disparage. (more info) dishonor; de- + honestare to make honorable. Cf. Dishonest, and see
  • INTESTATE
    1. Without having made a valid will; without a will; as, to die intestate. Blackstone. Airy succeeders of intestate joys. Shak. 2. Not devised or bequeathed; not disposed of by will; as, an intestate estate.
  • DETESTATE
    To detest. Udall.
  • POTESTATE
    A chief ruler; a potentate. Wyclif. "An irous potestate." Chaucer.
  • SUBOFFICER
    An under or subordinate officer.
  • COEXTENSIVE
    Equally extensive; having as, consciousness and knowledge are coextensive. Sir W. Hamilton. -- Co`ex*ten"sive*ly, adv. -- Co`ex*ten"sive*ness, n.
  • RESTATE
    To state anew. Palfrey.
  • UNDEROFFICER
    A subordinate officer.

 

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