Word Meanings - PORTIONIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of the incumbents of a benefice which has two or more rectors or vicars. (more info) 1. A scholar at Merton College, Oxford, who has a certain academical allowance or portion; -- corrupted into postmaster. Shipley.

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• CORRUPTIONIST
  One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.
• CORRUPTIBLE
  1. Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay. "Our corruptible bodies." Hooker. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold. 1 Pet. i. 18. 2. Capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation.
• BENEFICENT
  , a. Doing or producing good; performing acts of kindness and charity; characterized by beneficence. The beneficent fruits of Christianity. Prescott. Syn. -- See Benevolent.
• RECTORSHIP
  1. Government; guidance. "The rectorship of judgment." Shak. 2. The office or rank of a rector; rectorate.
• PORTIONIST
  One of the incumbents of a benefice which has two or more rectors or vicars. (more info) 1. A scholar at Merton College, Oxford, who has a certain academical allowance or portion; -- corrupted into postmaster. Shipley.
• SCHOLARSHIP
  1. The character and qualities of a scholar; attainments in science or literature; erudition; learning. A man of my master's . . . great scholarship. Pope. 2. Literary education. Any other house of scholarship. Milton. 3. Maintenance for a scholar;
• BENEFICENTLY
  In a beneficent manner; with beneficence.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• POSTMASTERSHIP
  The office of postmaster.
• CORRUPTION
  1. The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration. The inducing and accelerating of putrefaction is a subject
• POSTMASTER-GENERAL
  The chief officer of the post-office department of a government. In the United States the postmaster-general is a member of the cabinet.
• POSTMASTER
  1. One who has charge of a station for the accommodation of travelers; one who supplies post horses. 2. One who has charge of a post office, and the distribution and forwarding of mails.
• BENEFICED
  Possessed of a benefice o "Beneficed clergymen." Burke.
• CORRUPTIVE
  Having the quality of taining or vitiating; tending to produce corruption. It should be endued with some corruptive quality for so speedy a dissolution of the meat. Ray.
• CERTAINTY
  Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity. Of a certainty, certainly. (more info) 1. The quality, state, or condition, of being certain. The certainty of punishment is the truest security against crimes. Fisher Ames. 2. A fact or truth
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• BENEFICENCE
  The practice of doing good; active goodness, kindness, or charity; bounty springing from purity and goodness. And whose beneficence no charge exhausts. Cowper. Syn. -- See Benevolence.
• BENEFICE
  An estate in lands; a fief. Note: Such an estate was granted at first for life only, and held on the mere good pleasure of the donor; but afterward, becoming hereditary, it received the appellation of fief, and the term benefice became appropriated
• SCHOLARLY
  Like a scholar, or learned person; showing the qualities of a scholar; as, a scholarly essay or critique. -- adv.
• COLLEGE
  1. A collection, body, or society of persons engaged in common pursuits, or having common duties and interests, and sometimes, by charter, peculiar rights and privileges; as, a college of heralds; a college of electors; a college of bishops. The
• DISPROPORTIONALLY
  In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
• IMPROPORTIONATE
  Not proportionate.
• DISPROPORTIONABLE
  Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv.
• DISPROPORTIONALITY
  The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More.
• ASCERTAINMENT
  The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke.
• PROPORTIONATE
  Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional. Longfellow. What is proportionate to his transgression. Locke.
• ASCERTAINABLE
  That may be ascertained. -- As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness, n. -- As`cer*tain"a*bly, adv.
• REAPPORTIONMENT
  A second or a new apportionment.
• MISPROPORTION
  To give wrong proportions to; to join without due proportion.
• UNCORRUPTIBLE
  Incorruptible. "The glory of the uncorruptible God." Rom. i.
• DISPROPORTIONATE
  Not proportioned; unsymmetrical; unsuitable to something else in bulk, form, value, or extent; out of proportion; inadequate; as, in a perfect body none of the limbs are disproportionate; it is wisdom not to undertake a work disproportionate means.
• UNCERTAINTY
  1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.