Word Meanings - QUAINTLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a quaint manner. Shak.

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• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• QUAINT
  pretty, odd, OF. cointe cultivated, amiable, agreeable, neat, fr. L. cognitus known, p. p. of cognoscere to know; con + noscere (for 1. Prudent; wise; hence, crafty; artful; wily. Clerks be full subtle and full quaint. Chaucer. 2. Characterized
• QUAINTISE
  1. Craft; subtlety; cunning. Chaucer. R. of Glouces. 2. Elegance; beauty. Chaucer.
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• MANNERED
  1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
• MANNER
  manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner
• MANNERCHOR
  A German men's chorus or singing club.
• MANNERLY
  Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.
• QUAINTLY
  In a quaint manner. Shak.
• QUAINTNESS
  The quality of being quaint. Pope.
• ACQUAINTANCE
  1. A state of being acquainted, or of having intimate, or more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal knowledge gained by intercourse short of that of friendship or intimacy; as, I know the man; but have no acquaintance with him. Contract
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• ACQUAINTED
  Personally known; familiar. See To be acquainted with, under Acquaint, v. t.
• DISACQUAINT
  To render unacquainted; to make unfamiliar. While my sick heart With dismal smart Is disacquainted never. Herrick.
• INACQUAINTANCE
  Want of acquaintance. Good.
• PREACQUAINTANCE
  Previous acquaintance or knowledge. Harris.
• PREACQUAINT
  To acquaint previously or beforehand. Fielding.
• ACQUAINTEDNESS
  State of being acquainted; degree of acquaintance. Boyle.
• ACQUAINTABLE
  Easy to be acquainted with; affable. Rom. of R.
• UNACQUAINTANCE
  The quality or state of being unacquainted; want of acquaintance; ignorance. He was then in happy unacquaintance with everything connected with that obnoxious cavity. Sir W. Hamilton.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• NONACQUAINTANCE
  Want of acquaintance; the state of being unacquainted.
• ACQUAINTANT
  An acquaintance. Swift.
• ILL-MANNERED
  Impolite; rude.
• ACQUAINT
  Acquainted.
• WELL-MANNERED
  Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.