Word Meanings - PROVERBIALIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who makes much use of proverbs in speech or writing; one who composes, collects, or studies proverbs.

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• WRITING
  1. The act or art of forming letters and characters on paper, wood, stone, or other material, for the purpose of recording the ideas which characters and words express, or of communicating them to others by visible signs. 2. Anything written or
• SPEECHLESS
  1. Destitute or deprived of the faculty of speech. 2. Not speaking for a time; dumb; mute; silent. Speechless with wonder, and half dead with fear. Addison. -- Speech"less*ly, adv. -- Speech"less*ness, n.
• SPEECHIFYING
  The dinner and speechifying . . . at the opening of the annual season for the buckhounds. M. Arnold.
• WRITATIVE
  Inclined to much writing; -- correlative to talkative. Pope.
• SPEECHFUL
  Full of speech or words; voluble; loquacious.
• WRITER
  1. One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk. They that handle the pen of the writer. Judg. v. 14. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. Ps. xlv. 1. 2. One who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author; as, a writer
• SPEECHIFY
  To make a speech; to harangue.
• WRIT
  3d pers. sing. pres. of Write, for writeth. Chaucer.
• WRITHLE
  To wrinkle. Shak.
• MAKESHIFT
  That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot.
• SPEECHIFICATION
  The act of speechifying.
• WRITERSHIP
  The office of a writer.
• WRITHE
  to OHG. ridan, Icel. ri, Sw. vrida, Dan. vride. Cf. Wreathe, Wrest, 1. To twist; to turn; now, usually, to twist or turn so as to distort; to wring. "With writhing of a pin." Chaucer. Then Satan first knew pain, And writhed him to and
• WRITTEN
  p. p. of Write, v.
• WRITE
  to scratch, to score; akin to OS. writan to write, to tear, to wound, D. rijten to tear, to rend, G. reissen, OHG. rizan, Icel. rita to 1. To set down, as legible characters; to form the conveyance of meaning; to inscribe on any material
• WRITABILITY
  Ability or capacity to write. Walpole.
• WRITHEN
  Having a twisted distorted from. A writhen staff his step unstable guides. Fairfax.
• SPEECHMAKER
  One who makes speeches; one accustomed to speak in a public assembly.
• SPEECH
  speak; akin to D. spraak speech, OHG. sprahha, G. sprache, Sw. spr, 1. The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the faculty of expressing thoughts by words or articulate sounds; the power of speaking. There is none comparable to the
• WRITABLE
  Capable of, or suitable for, being written down.
• REWRITE
  To write again. Young.
• TYPEWRITING
  The act or art of using a typewriter; also, a print made with a typewriter.
• PLAYWRITER
  A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky.
• STORY-WRITER
  1. One who writes short stories, as for magazines. 2. An historian; a chronicler. "Rathums, the story-writer." 1 Esdr. ii. 17.
• UNDERWRITING
  The business of an underwriter,
• UNDERWRITER
  One who underwrites his name to the conditions of an insurance policy, especially of a marine policy; an insurer.
• UNWRITE
  To cancel, as what is written; to erase. Milton.
• VISIBLE SPEECH
  A system of characters invented by Prof. Alexander Melville Bell to represent all sounds that may be uttered by the speech organs, and intended to be suggestive of the position of the organs of speech in uttering them.