Word Meanings - OPINATIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Obstinate in holding opinions; opinionated. -- O*pin"a*tive*ly, adv. Burton. Sir T. More.

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• HOLD
  The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.
• OPINIONATOR
  An opinionated person; one given to conjecture. South.
• HOLDBACK
  1. Check; hindrance; restraint; obstacle. The only holdback is the affection . . . that we bear to our wealth. Hammond. 2. The projection or loop on the thill of a vehicle. to which a strap of the harness is attached, to hold back a carriage when
• OPINIONATE
  Opinionated.
• HOLDER-FORTH
  One who speaks in public; an haranguer; a preacher. Addison.
• HOLDER
  One who is employed in the hold of a vessel.
• OBSTINATE
  a thing with firmness, to persist in; ob + a word from the 1. Pertinaciously adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course; persistent; not yielding to reason, arguments, or other means; stubborn; pertinacious; -- usually implying unreasonableness.
• OPINIONATED
  Stiff in opinion; firmly or unduly adhering to one's own opinion or to preconceived notions; obstinate in opinion. Sir W. Scott.
• OPINIONATIST
  An opinionist.
• HOLDING
  1. The act or state of sustaining, grasping, or retaining. 2. A tenure; a farm or other estate held of another. 3. That which holds, binds, or influences. Burke. 4. The burden or chorus of a song. Shak. Holding note , a note sustained in one
• BURTON
  A peculiar tackle, formed of two or more blocks, or pulleys, the weight being suspended of a hook block in the bight of the running part.
• OPINIONATELY
  Conceitedly. Feltham.
• OPINIONATIVE
  1. Unduly attached to one's own opinions; opinionated. Milton. 2. Of the nature of an opinion; conjectured. "Things both opinionative and practical." Bunyan. -- O*pin"ion*a*tive*ly, adv. -- O*pin"ion*a*tive*ness, n.
• HOLDFAST
  A conical or branching body, by which a seaweed is attached to its support, and differing from a root in that it is not specially absorbent of moisture. (more info) 1. Something used to secure and hold in place something else, as a long fiat-headed
• INHOLD
  To have inherent; to contain in itself; to possess. Sir W. Raleigh.
• COPYHOLDER
  One possessed of land in copyhold. A device for holding copy for a compositor. One who reads copy to a proof reader.
• HIGH-HOLDER
  The flicker; -- called also high-hole.
• BLANCH HOLDING
  A mode of tenure by the payment of a small duty in white rent or otherwise.
• BEHOLDER
  One who beholds; a spectator.
• OFFICEHOLDER
  An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
• CANDLEHOLDER
  One who, or that which, holds a candle; also, one who assists another, but is otherwise not of importance. Shak.
• FOREHOLDING
  Ominous foreboding; superstitious prognostication. L'Estrange.
• BOOKHOLDER
  1. A prompter at a theater. Beau & Fl. 2. A support for a book, holding it open, while one reads or copies from it.
• FOOTHOLD
  A holding with the feet; firm L'Estrange.
• BEHOLDING
  Obliged; beholden. I was much bound and beholding to the right reverend father. Robynson So much hath Oxford been beholding to her nephews, or sister's children. Fuller.
• STRANGLE HOLD
  In wrestling, a hold by which one's opponent is choked. It is usually not allowed.
• BEHOLDINGNESS
  , The state of being obliged or beholden. Sir P. Sidney.
• BONDHOLDER
  A person who holds the bonds of a public or private corporation for the payment of money at a certain time.
• BEHOLD
  To have in sight; to see clearly; to look at; to regard with the eyes. When he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived. Num. xxi. 9. Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. John. i. 29. Syn. -- To scan; gaze; regard; descry;