Word Meanings - MAMMONISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Actuated or prompted by a devotion to money getting or the service of Mammon. Carlyle.

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• PROMPT-BOOK
  The book used by a prompter of a theater.
• GETTABLE
  That may be obtained.
• ACTUATE
  Etym: 1. To put into action or motion; to move or incite to action; to influence actively; to move as motives do; -- more commonly used of persons. Wings, which others were contriving to actuate by the perpetual motion. Johnson. Men of the greatest
• DEVOTIONALLY
  In a devotional manner; toward devotion.
• MAMMONISH
  Actuated or prompted by a devotion to money getting or the service of Mammon. Carlyle.
• MAMMONIST
  A mammonite.
• PROMPTLY
  In a prompt manner.
• MONEYER
  1. A person who deals in money; banker or broker. 2. An authorized coiner of money. Sir M. Hale. The Company of Moneyers, the officials who formerly coined the money of Great Britain, and who claimed certain prescriptive rights and privileges.
• PROMPT
  1. To assist or induce the action of; to move to action; to instigate; to incite. God first . . . prompted on the infirmities of the infant world by temporal prosperity. Jer. Taylor. 2. To suggest; to dictate. And whispering angles prompt
• MONEYAGE
  1. A tax paid to the first two Norman kings of England to prevent them from debashing the coin. Hume. 2. Mintage; coinage.
• SERVICE
  The act of bringing to notice, either actually or constructively, in such manner as is prescribed by law; as, the service of a subpoena or an attachment. (more info) 1. The act of serving; the occupation of a servant; the performance of labor for
• PROMPTUARY
  Of or pertaining to preparation. Bacon.
• MONEY
  fr. L. moneta. See Mint place where coin is made, Mind, and cf. 1. A piece of metal, as gold, silver, copper, etc., coined, or stamped, and issued by the sovereign authority as a medium of exchange in financial transactions between citizens and
• PROMPT-NOTE
  A memorandum of a sale, and time when payment is due, given to the purchaser at a sale of goods.
• ACTUATION
  A bringing into action; movement. Bp. Pearson.
• DEVOTIONAL
  Pertaining to, suited to, or used in, devotion; as, a devotional posture; devotional exercises; a devotional frame of mind.
• PROMPTNESS
  1. Promptitude; readiness; quickness of decision or action. 2. Cheerful willingness; alacrity.
• SERVICEABLE
  1. Doing service; promoting happiness, interest, advantage, or any good; useful to any end; adapted to any good end use; beneficial; advantageous. "Serviceable to religion and learning". Atterbury. "Serviceable tools." Macaulay. I know thee well,
• SERVICE; SERVICE
  A name given to several trees and shrubs of the genus Pyrus, as Pyrus domestica and P. torminalis of Europe, the various species of mountain ash or rowan tree, and the American shad bush (see Shad bush, under Shad). They have clusters of small,
• PROMPTER
  1. One who, or that which, prompts; one who admonishes or incites to action. 2. One who reminds another, as an actor or an orator, of the words to be spoken next; specifically, one employed for this purpose in a theater.
• INACTUATE
  To put in action.
• PUBLIC-SERVICE CORPORATION; QUASI-PUBLIC CORPORATION
  A corporation, such as a railroad company, lighting company, water company, etc., organized or chartered to follow a public calling or to render services more or less essential to the general public convenience or safety.
• BOND SERVICE
  The condition of a bond servant; sevice without wages; slavery. Their children . . . upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bond service. 1 Kings ix. 21.
• FORGETTINGLY
  By forgetting.
• CONTRAFAGETTO
  The double bassoon, an octave deeper than the bassoon.
• SELF-DEVOTION
  The act of devoting one's self, or the state of being self- devoted; willingness to sacrifice one's own advantage or happiness for the sake of others; self-sacrifice.
• VERGETTE
  Divided by pallets, or pales; paly. W. Berry.
• UNSERVICE
  Neglect of duty; idleness; indolence. Massinger.