Word Meanings - PASTICCIO - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A medley; an olio. H. Swinburne. A work of art imitating directly the work of another artist, or of more artists than one. A falsified work of art, as a vase or statue made up of parts of original works, with missing parts supplied.

Related words: (words related to PASTICCIO)

• STATUELESS
  Without a statue.
• SUPPLICATE
  supplicate; of uncertain origin, cf. supplex, supplicis, humbly begging or entreating; perhaps fr. sub under + a word akin to placare to reconcile, appease , or fr. sub under + plicare to fold, whence the idea of bending the knees . Cf. 1. To
• STATUED
  Adorned with statues. "The statued hall." Longfellow. "Statued niches." G. Eliot.
• ARTISTE
  One peculiarly dexterous and tasteful in almost any employment, as an opera dancer, a hairdresser, a cook. Note: This term should not be confounded with the English word artist.
• MISSEL
  Mistletoe. Missel bird, Missel thrush , a large European thrush which feeds on the berries of the mistletoe; -- called also mistletoe thrush and missel.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• MISSIFICATE
  To perform Mass. Milton.
• SUPPLICANT
  Entreating; asking submissively. Shak. -- Sup"pli*cant*ly, adv.
• MISSTAYED
  Having missed stays; -- said of a ship.
• MISSILE
  A weapon thrown or projected or intended to be projcted, as a lance, an arrow, or a bullet.
• MISSPEND
  To spend amiss or for wrong purposes; to aquander; to waste; as, to misspend time or money. J. Philips.
• MISSAY
  1. To say wrongly. 2. To speak evil of; to slander.
• FALSIFICATION
  The showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong. Story. (more info) 1. The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not. To counterfeit the living image of king in
• MISSTATE
  To state wrongly; as, to misstate a question in debate. Bp. Sanderson.
• ARTIST
  1. One who practices some mechanic art or craft; an artisan. How to build ships, and dreadful ordnance cast, Instruct the articles and reward their. Waller. 2. One who professes and practices an art in which science and taste preside
• MISSOUND
  To sound wrongly; to utter or pronounce incorrectly. E,Hall.
• STATUELIKE
  Like a statue; motionless.
• STATUETTE
  A small statue; -- usually applied to a figure much less than life size, especially when of marble or bronze, or of plaster or clay as a preparation for the marble or bronze, as distinguished from a figure in terra cotta or the like. Cf. Figurine.
• MISSIONER
  A missionary; an envoy; one who conducts a mission. See Mission, n., 6. "Like mighty missioner you come." Dryden.
• MISSPENT
  of Misspend.
• COMMISSARY
  An officer on the bishop, who exercises ecclesiastical jurisdiction in parts of the diocese at a distance from the residence of the bishop. Ayliffe. An officer having charge of a special sevice; as, the commissary of musters. An officer
• DISMISSIVE
  Giving dismission.
• PROMISSORILY
  In a promissory manner. Sir T. Browne.
• REMISS
  Not energetic or exact in duty or business; not careful or prompt in fulfilling engagements; negligent; careless; tardy; behindhand; lagging; slack; hence, lacking earnestness or activity; languid; slow. Thou never wast remiss, I bear thee witness.
• CHARTIST
  A supporter or partisan of chartism.
• REMISSLY
  In a remiss or negligent manner; carelessly.
• ABORIGINALLY
  Primarily.
• DISMISSAL
  Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
• CARTIST
  In Spain and Portugal, one who supports the constitution.
• REMISSORY
  Serving or tending to remit, or to secure remission; remissive. "A sacrifice expiatory or remissory." Latimer.