Word Meanings - MILITIATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To carry on, or prepare for, war. Walpole.

Related words: (words related to MILITIATE)

• CARRYK
  A carack. Chaucer.
• CARRYALL
  A light covered carriage, having four wheels and seats for four or more persons, usually drawn by one horse.
• PREPARER
  One who, or that which, prepares, fits, or makes ready. Wood.
• CARRYTALE
  A talebearer. Shak.
• CARRY
  1. To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off. When he dieth he small carry nothing away. Ps. xiix. 17. Devout men carried Stephen to his burial. Acts viii, 2. Another carried the intelligence
• CARRYING
  The act or business of transporting from one place to another. Carrying place, a carry; a portage. -- Carrying trade, the business of transporting goods, etc., from one place or country to another by water or land; freighting. We are rivals with
• PREPARED
  Made fit or suitable; adapted; ready; as, prepared food; prepared questions. -- Pre*par"ed*ly, adv. Shak. -- Pre*par"ed*ness, n.
• PREPARE
  1. To fit, adapt, or qualify for a particular purpose or condition; to make ready; to put into a state for use or application; as, to prepare ground for seed; to prepare a lesson. Our souls, not yet prepared for upper light. Dryden. 2. To procure
• SCARRY
  Bearing scars or marks of wounds.
• MISCARRY
  1. To carry, or go, wrong; to fail of reaching a destination, or fail of the intended effect; to be unsuccessful; to suffer defeat. My ships have all miscarried. Shak. The cardinal's letters to the pope miscarried. Shak. 2. To bring forth young
• DISPREPARE
  To render unprepared. Hobbes.
• OVERCARRY
  To carry too far; to carry beyond the proper point. Hayward.
• RECARRY
  To carry back. Walton.