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Word Meanings - MISSTATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To state wrongly; as, to misstate a question in debate. Bp. Sanderson.

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  • STATESMANLIKE
    Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
  • STATEHOOD
    The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
  • QUESTIONIST
    A candidate for honors or degrees who is near the time of his examination. (more info) 1. A questioner; an inquirer.
  • DEBATEMENT
    Controversy; deliberation; debate. A serious question and debatement with myself. Milton.
  • QUESTIONABLENESS
    The quality or state of being questionable, doubtful, or suspicious.
  • STATE SOCIALISM
    A form of socialism, esp. advocated in Germany, which, while retaining the right of private property and the institution of the family and other features of the present form of the state, would intervene by various measures intended to
  • MISSTATE
    To state wrongly; as, to misstate a question in debate. Bp. Sanderson.
  • STATECRAFT
    The art of conducting state affairs; state management; statesmanship.
  • STATESWOMAN
    A woman concerned in public affairs. A rare stateswoman; I admire her bearing. B. Jonson.
  • STATESMANLY
    Becoming a statesman.
  • STATESMAN
    1. A man versed in public affairs and in the principles and art of government; especially, one eminent for political abilities. The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more, the stronger light
  • DEBATER
    One who debates; one given to argument; a disputant; a controvertist. Debate where leisure serves with dull debaters. Shak.
  • QUESTION
    1. The act of asking; interrogation; inquiry; as, to examine by question and answer. 2. Discussion; debate; hence, objection; dispute; doubt; as, the story is true beyond question; he obeyed without question. There arose a question between some
  • STATEDLY
    At stated times; regularly.
  • STATELESS
    Without state or pomp.
  • STATEMONGER
    One versed in politics, or one who dabbles in state affairs.
  • STATED
    1. Settled; established; fixed. He is capable of corruption who receives more than what is the stated and unquestionable fee of his office. Addison. 2. Recurring at regular time; not occasional; as, stated preaching; stated business hours.
  • STATEFUL
    Full of state; stately. "A stateful silence." Marston.
  • QUESTIONNAIRE
    = Questionary, above.
  • QUESTIONLESS
    Unquestioning; incurious.
  • CREBRICOSTATE
    Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
  • SAGEBRUSH STATE
    Nevada; -- a nickname.
  • OLD LINE STATE
    Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
  • ENSTATE
    See INSTATE
  • KATASTATE
    A substance formed by a katabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See Katabolic.
  • BAYOU STATE
    Mississippi; -- a nickname, from its numerous bayous.
  • REESTATE
    To reëstablish. Walis.
  • BLACKWATER STATE
    Nebraska; -- a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil.
  • ARISTATE
    Having a pointed, beardlike process, as the glumes of wheat; awned. Gray.
  • BICOSTATE
    Having two principal ribs running longitudinally, as a leaf.
  • TRIPLICOSTATE
    Three-ribbed.
  • DEHONESTATE
    To disparage. (more info) dishonor; de- + honestare to make honorable. Cf. Dishonest, and see
  • DEVASTATE
    To lay waste; to ravage; to desolate. Whole countries . . . were devastated. Macaulay. Syn. -- To waste; ravage; desolate; destroy; demolish; plunder; pillage.
  • APOSTATE
    One who, after having received sacred orders, renounces his clerical profession. (more info) 1. One who has forsaken the faith, principles, or party, to which he before adhered; esp., one who has forsaken his religion for another; a pervert; a
  • CREOLE STATE
    Louisiana; -- a nickname. See Creole, n. & a.
  • METATUNGSTATE
    A salt of metatungstic acid.

 

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