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Word Meanings - PULPITICAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to the pulpit; suited to the pulpit. -- Pul*pit"ic*al*ly, adv. Chesterfield.

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  • SUITABILITY
    The quality or state of being suitable; suitableness.
  • SUITRESS
    A female supplicant. Rowe.
  • SUITING
    Among tailors, cloth suitable for making entire suits of clothes.
  • PULPITED
    Placed in a pulpit. Sit . . . at the feet of a pulpited divine. Milton.
  • PULPITER
    A preacher.
  • PULPITISH
    Of or pertaining to the pulpit; like preaching. Chalmers.
  • PULPITICAL
    Of or pertaining to the pulpit; suited to the pulpit. -- Pul*pit"ic*al*ly, adv. Chesterfield.
  • PERTAIN
    stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
  • PULPITRY
    The teaching of the pulpit; preaching. " Mere pulpitry." Milton.
  • SUITABLE
    Capable of suiting; fitting; accordant; proper; becoming; agreeable; adapted; as, ornaments suitable to one's station; language suitable for the subject. -- Suit"a*ble*ness, n. -- Suit"a*bly, adv. Syn. -- Proper; fitting; becoming; accordant;
  • SUITOR
    1. One who sues, petitions, or entreats; a petitioner; an applicant. She hath been a suitor to me for her brother. Shak. 2. Especially, one who solicits a woman in marriage; a wooer; a lover. Sir P. Sidney. One who sues or prosecutes a demand in
  • PULPITEER
    One who speaks in a pulpit; a preacher; -- so called in contempt. Howell. We never can think it sinful that Burns should have been humorous on such a pulpiteer. Prof. Wilson.
  • PULPIT
    1. An elevated place, or inclosed stage, in a church, in which the clergyman stands while preaching. I stand like a clerk in my pulpit. Chaucer. 2. The whole body of the clergy; preachers as a class; also, preaching. I say the pulpit (in the sober
  • SUITE
    One of the old musical forms, before the time of the more compact sonata, consisting of a string or series of pieces all in the same key, mostly in various dance rhythms, with sometimes an elaborate prelude. Some composers of the present day affect
  • SUIT
    The attempt to gain an end by legal process; an action or process for the recovery of a right or claim; legal application to a court for justice; prosecution of right before any tribunal; as, a civil suit; a criminal suit; a suit in chancery. I
  • DEMISUIT
    A suit of light armor covering less than the whole body, as having no protection for the legs below the things, no vizor to the helmet, and the like.
  • UNSUIT
    Not to suit; to be unfit for. Quarles.
  • JESUITOCRACY
    Government by Jesuits; also, the whole body of Jesuits in a country. C. Kingsley.
  • JESUITIC; JESUITICAL
    1. Of or pertaining to the Jesuits, or to their principles and methods. 2. Designing; cunning; deceitful; crafty; -- an opprobrious use of the word. Dryden.
  • JESUITESS
    One of an order of nuns established on the principles of the Jesuits, but suppressed by Pope Urban in 1633.
  • JESUITRY
    Jesuitism; subtle argument. Carlyle.
  • JESUITISM
    1. The principles and practices of the Jesuits. 2. Cunning; deceit; deceptive practices to effect a purpose; subtle argument; -- an opprobrious use of the word.
  • ESTABLISHED SUIT
    A plain suit in which a player could, except for trumping, take tricks with all his remaining cards.
  • PURSUIT
    Prosecution. That pursuit for tithes ought, and of ancient time did pertain to the spiritual court. Fuller. Curve of pursuit , a curve described by a point which is at each instant moving towards a second point, which is itself moving according

 

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