Word Meanings - MISRAISE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To raise or exite unreasonable. "Misraised fury." Bp. Hall.

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• MISRAISE
  To raise or exite unreasonable. "Misraised fury." Bp. Hall.
• RAISE
  To create or constitute; as, to raise a use that is, to create it. Burrill. To raise a blockade , to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
• RAISED
  1. Lifted up; showing above the surroundings; as, raised or embossed metal work. 2. Leavened; made with leaven, or yeast; -- used of bread, cake, etc., as distinguished from that made with cream of tartar, soda, etc. See Raise, v. t., 4. Raised
• UNREASONABLE
  Not reasonable; irrational; immoderate; exorbitant. -- Un*rea"son*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*rea"son*a*bly, adv.
• RAISER
  One who, or that which, raises .
• ALEXITERIC; ALEXITERICAL
  Resisting poison; obviating the effects of venom; alexipharmic.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• FRAISE
  A large and thick pancake, with slices of bacon in it. Johnson.
• PRAISER
  1. One who praises. "Praisers of men." Sir P. Sidney. 2. An appraiser; a valuator. Sir T. North.
• FRAISED
  Fortified with a fraise.
• BRAISE; BRAIZE
  A European marine fish allied to the American scup; the becker. The name is sometimes applied to the related species.
• OVERPRAISE
  To praise excessively or unduly.
• SUPERPRAISE
  To praise to excess. To vow, and swear, and superpraise my parts. Shak.
• VRAISEMBLANCE
  The appearance of truth; verisimilitude.
• APPRAISE
  1. To set a value; to estimate the worth of, particularly by persons appointed for the purpose; as, to appraise goods and chattels. 2. To estimate; to conjecture. Enoch . . . appraised his weight. Tennyson. 3. To praise; to commend. R. Browning.
• PRAISEMENT
  Appraisement.
• HIGH-RAISED
  1. Elevated; raised aloft; upreared. 2. Elated with great ideas or hopes. Milton.
• PRAISELESS
  Without praise or approbation.
• BRAISER
  A kettle or pan for braising.