Word Meanings - PURPOSER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. One who brings forward or proposes anything; a proposer. 2. One who forms a purpose; one who intends.
Related words: (words related to PURPOSER)
- PURPOSELESS
Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n. - PROPOSER
1. One who proposes or offers anything for consideration or adoption. 2. A speaker; an orator. Shak. - PURPOSE
1. That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure, or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; plan. He will his firste purpos modify. Chaucer. - ANYTHINGARIAN
One who holds to no particular creed or dogma. - FORWARDLY
Eagerly; hastily; obtrusively. - FORWARD
An agreement; a covenant; a promise. Tell us a tale anon, as forward is. Chaucer. - FORWARDNESS
The quality of being forward; cheerful readiness; promtness; as, the forwardness of Christians in propagating the gospel. 2. An advanced stage of progress or of preparation; advancement; as, his measures were in great forwardness. Robertson. 3. - PURPOSER
1. One who brings forward or proposes anything; a proposer. 2. One who forms a purpose; one who intends. - FORWARDER
One employed in forwarding. (more info) 1. One who forwards or promotes; a promoter. Udall. 2. One who sends forward anything; one who transmits goods; a forwarding merchant. - FORWARDING
The process of putting a book into its cover, and making it ready for the finisher. (more info) 1. The act of one who forwards; the act or occupation of transmitting merchandise or other property for others. - FORWARD; FORWARDS
Toward a part or place before or in front; onward; in advance; progressively; -- opposed to backward. (more info) -weardes; akin to G. vorwärts. The s is properly a genitive ending. - PURPOSELY
With purpose or design; intentionally; with predetermination; designedly. In composing this discourse, I purposely declined all offensive and displeasing truths. Atterbury. So much they scorn the crowd, that if the throng By chance go right, they - PURPOSEFUL
Important; material. "Purposeful accounts." Tylor. -- Pur"pose*ful*ly, adv. - FORWARDS
See FORWARD - PURPOSEDLY
In a purposed manner; according to purpose or design; purposely. A poem composed purposedly of the Trojan war. Holland. - ANYTHING
1. Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatever; thing of any kind; something or other; aught; as, I would not do it for anything. Did you ever know of anything so unlucky A. Trollope. They do not know that anything is amiss with them. W. G. - CROSS-PURPOSE
A conversational game, in which questions and answers are made so as to involve ludicrous combinations of ideas. Pepys. To be at cross-purposes, to misunderstand or to act counter to one another without intending it; -- said of persons. (more info) - DISPURPOSE
To dissuade; to frustrate; as, to dispurpose plots. A. Brewer. - OVERFORWARD
Forward to excess; too forward. -- O"ver*for"ward*ness, n. - STRAIGHTFORWARD
Proceeding in a straight course or manner; not deviating; honest; frank. -- adv. - HENCEFORWARD
From this time forward; henceforth. - THENCEFORWARD
From that time onward; thenceforth.