Word Meanings - PUNIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Of or pertaining to the ancient Carthaginians. 2. Characteristic of the ancient Carthaginians; faithless; treacherous; as, Punic faith. Yes, yes, his faith attesting nations own; 'T is Punic all, and to a proverb known. H. Brooke.

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• PROVERBIAL
  1. Mentioned or comprised in a proverb; used as a proverb; hence, commonly known; as, a proverbial expression; his meanness was proverbial. In case of excesses, I take the German proverbial cure, by a hair of the same beast, to be the worst. Sir
• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• PUNIC
  1. Of or pertaining to the ancient Carthaginians. 2. Characteristic of the ancient Carthaginians; faithless; treacherous; as, Punic faith. Yes, yes, his faith attesting nations own; 'T is Punic all, and to a proverb known. H. Brooke.
• FAITHLESS
  1. Not believing; not giving credit. Be not faithless, but believing. John xx. 27. 2. Not believing on God or religion; specifically, not believing in the Christian religion. Shak. 3. Not observant of promises or covenants. 4. Not true
• PROVERB
  1. An old and common saying; a phrase which is often repeated; especially, a sentence which briefly and forcibly expresses some practical truth, or the result of experience and observation; a maxim; a saw; an adage. Chaucer. Bacon. 2. A striking
• PROVERBIALIST
  One who makes much use of proverbs in speech or writing; one who composes, collects, or studies proverbs.
• ATTESTATIVE
  Of the nature of attestation.
• FAITHED
  Having faith or a faith; honest; sincere. "Make thy words faithed." Shak.
• TREACHEROUS
  Like a traitor; involving treachery; violating allegiance or faith pledged; traitorous to the state or sovereign; perfidious in private life; betraying a trust; faithless. Loyal father of a treacherous son. Shak. The treacherous smile, a mask for
• 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
• PUNICEOUS; PUNICIAL
  Of a bright red or purple color.
• KNOWN
  of Know.
• PROVERBIALLY
  In a proverbial manner; by way of proverb; hence, commonly; universally; as, it is proverbially said; the bee is proverbially busy.
• ANCIENTNESS
  The quality of being ancient; antiquity; existence from old times.
• ANCIENTLY
  1. In ancient times. 2. In an ancient manner.
• PROVERBIALIZE
  To turn into a proverb; to speak in proverbs.
• FAITH
  fr. L. fides; akin to fidere to trust, Gr. th is perhaps due to the influence of such words as truth, health, wealth. See Bid, Bide, and 1. Belief; the assent of the mind to the truth of what is declared by another, resting solely and implicitly
• PUNICE
  See PUNESE
• CHARACTERISTICALLY
  In a characteristic manner; in a way that characterizes.
• ATTESTIVE
  Attesting; furnishing evidence.
• UNFAITH
  Absence or want of faith; faithlessness; distrust; unbelief. Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers: Unfaith in aught is want of faith in all. Tennyson.
• UNFAITHFUL
  1. Not faithful; not observant of promises, vows, allegiance, or duty; violating trust or confidence; treacherous; perfidious; as, an unfaithful subject; an unfaithful agent or servant. My feet, through wine, unfaithful to their weight. Pope. His
• UNKNOWN
  Not known; not apprehended. -- Un*known"ness, n. Camden.