Word Meanings - OPPOSITIONIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed.

Related words: (words related to OPPOSITIONIST)

• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• PARTY
  1. A part or portion. "The most party of the time." Chaucer. 2. A number of persons united in opinion or action, as distinguished from, or opposed to, the rest of a community or association; esp., one of the parts into which a people is divided
• PRAXIS
  1. Use; practice; especially, exercise or discipline for a specific purpose or object. "The praxis and theory of music." Wood. 2. An example or form of exercise, or a collection of such examples, for practice.
• PRAENOMEN
  The first name of a person, by which individuals of the same family were distinguished, answering to our Christian name, as Caius, Lucius, Marcus, etc.
• PRATIQUE
  Primarily, liberty of converse; intercourse; hence, a certificate, given after compliance with quarantine regulations, permitting a ship to land passengers and crew; -- a term used particularly in the south of Europe. 2. Practice; habits. "One
• PRALINE
  A confection made of nut kernels, usually of almonds, roasted in boiling sugar until brown and crisp. Bonbons, pralines, . . . saccharine, crystalline substances of all kinds and colors. Du Maurier.
• OPPOSITIONIST
  One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed.
• PRAECOCIAL
  Of or pertaining to the Præcoces.
• PRAD
  A horse.
• PRAEFOLIATION
  See GRAY
• PRATER
  One who prates. Shak.
• PRACTIVE
  Doing; active. Sylvester. -- Prac"tive*ly, adv. The preacher and the people both, Then practively did thrive. Warner.
• PRAETERMIT
  See PRETERMIT
• PRASEODYMIUM
  An elementary substance, one of the constituents of didymium; - - so called from the green color of its salts. Symbol Ps. Atomic weight 143.6.
• PRACTICER
  1. One who practices, or puts in practice; one who customarily performs certain acts. South. 2. One who exercises a profession; a practitioner. 3. One who uses art or stratagem. B. Jonson.
• PRAISER
  1. One who praises. "Praisers of men." Sir P. Sidney. 2. An appraiser; a valuator. Sir T. North.
• PRAETORES
  A division of butterflies including the satyrs.
• PRAECOMMISSURE
  A transverse commissure in the anterior part of the third ventricle of the brain; the anterior cerebral commissure.
• PRAECOCES
  A division of birds including those whose young are able to run about when first hatched.
• PRAYING
  a. & n. from Pray, v. Praying insect, locust, or mantis , a mantis, especially Mantis religiosa. See Mantis. -- Praying machine, or Praying wheel, a wheel on which prayers are pasted by Buddhist priests, who then put the wheel in rapid revolution.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• CONSTUPRATE
  To ravish; to debauch. Burton.
• SUPRAOCCIPITAL
  Situated over, or in the upper part of, the occiput; of or pertaining to the supraoccipital bone. -- n.
• SUPRA-AXILLARY
  Growing above the axil; inserted above the axil, as a peduncle. See Suprafoliaceous.
• SUPRACILIARY
  Superciliary.
• SUPRA-OESOPHAGAL
  See SUPRA-ESOPHAGAL
• UNPRACTICAL
  Not practical; impractical. "Unpractical questions." H. James. I like him none the less for being unpractical. Lowell.
• PIPRA
  Any one of numerous species of small clamatorial birds belonging to Pipra and allied genera, of the family Pipridæ. The male is usually glossy black, varied with scarlet, yellow, or sky blue. They chiefly inhabit South America.
• SUPRASTERNAL
  Situated above, or anterior to, the sternum.
• POURPARTY
  A division; a divided share. To make pourparty, to divide and apportion lands previously held in common.
• SUPRAPEDAL
  Situated above the foot of a mollusk; as, the suprapedal gland.
• SUPRAPROTEST
  An acceptance of a bill by a third person after protest for nonacceptance by the drawee. Burrill.