Word Meanings - LIFE-GIVING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Giving life or spirit; having power to give life; inspiriting; invigorating.
Related words: (words related to LIFE-GIVING)
- HAVENED
Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats. - SPIRITUOUS
1. Having the quality of spirit; tenuous in substance, and having active powers or properties; ethereal; immaterial; spiritual; pure. 2. Containing, or of the nature of, alcoholic spirit; consisting of refined spirit; alcoholic; ardent; - HAVENER
A harbor master. - POWERFUL
Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any - POWERABLE
1. Capable of being effected or accomplished by the application of power; possible. J. Young. 2. Capable of exerting power; powerful. Camden. - SPIRITUALIZE
To extract spirit from; also, to convert into, or impregnate with, spirit. (more info) 1. To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize - GIVES
Fetters. - HAVELOCK
A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke. - SPIRITUOSITY
The quality or state of being spirituous; spirituousness. - SPIRITUAL-MINDED
Having the mind set on spiritual things, or filled with holy desires and affections. -- Spir"it*u*al-mind`ed*ness, n. - GIVING
1. The act of bestowing as a gift; a conferring or imparting. 2. A gift; a benefaction. Pope. 3. The act of softening, breaking, or yielding. "Upon the first giving of the weather." Addison. Giving in, a falling inwards; a collapse. -- Giving - SPIRITISM
Spiritualsm. - INVIGORATION
The act of invigorating, or the state of being invigorated. - SPIRIT
Rum, whisky, brandy, gin, and other distilled liquors having much alcohol, in distinction from wine and malt liquors. (more info) 1. Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself. "All of spirit would deprive." Spenser. - HAVE
haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2. - SPIRITUALISTIC
Relating to, or connected with, spiritualism. - HAVENAGE
Harbor dues; port dues. - SPIRITUOUSNESS
The quality or state of being spirituous. Boyle. - HAVEN
habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor; - HAVANA
Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n. - PUBLIC-SPIRITED
1. Having, or exercising, a disposition to advance the interest of the community or public; as, public-spirited men. 2. Dictated by a regard to public good; as, a public-spirited project or measure. Addison. -- Pub"lic-spir`it*ed*ly, - TERGIVERSATOR
One who tergiversates; one who suffles, or practices evasion. - CANDLE POWER
Illuminating power, as of a lamp, or gas flame, reckoned in terms of the light of a standard candle. - DISPIRITED
Depressed in spirits; disheartened; daunted. -- Dis*pir"it*ed*ly, adv. -- Dis*pir"it*ed, n. - REINVIGORATE
To invigorate anew. - THANKSGIVING
1. The act of rending thanks, or expressing gratitude for favors or mercies. Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving. 1 Tim. iv. 4. In the thanksgiving before meat. Shak. And taught by thee - ALMSGIVING
The giving of alms. - MISGIVING
Evil premonition; doubt; distrust. "Suspicious and misgivings." South. - DISSPIRIT
See DISPIRIT - MISBEHAVE
To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun. - FUNGIVOROUS
Eating fungi; -- said of certain insects and snails.