Word Meanings - RALLIES - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A French political group, also known as the Constitutional Right from its position in the Chambers, mainly monarchists who rallied to the support of the Republic in obedience to the encyclical put forth by Pope Leo XIII. in Feb., 1892.

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• RIGHT-RUNNING
  Straight; direct.
• FORTHPUTING
  Bold; forward; aggressive.
• SUPPORTABLE
  Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• SUPPORTATION
  Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon.
• OBEDIENCE
  1. The act of obeying, or the state of being obedient; compliance with that which is required by authority; subjection to rightful restraint or control. Government must compel the obedience of individuals. Ames. 2. Words or actions denoting
• RIGHTEOUSNESS
  The state of being right with God; justification; the work of Christ, which is the ground justification. There are two kinds of Christian righteousness: the one without us, which we have by imputation; the other in us, which consisteth of faith,
• CONSTITUTIONALIST
  One who advocates a constitutional form of government; a constitutionalist.
• SUPPORTFUL
  Abounding with support. Chapman.
• FORTHCOMING
  Ready or about to appear; making appearance.
• FORTHY
  Therefore. Spenser.
• SUPPORTLESS
  Having no support. Milton.
• FORTHWARD
  Forward. Bp. Fisher.
• POLITICALLY
  1. In a political manner. 2. Politicly; artfully. Knolles.
• RIGHT-ANGLED
  Containing a right angle or right angles; as, a right-angled triangle.
• RIGHTEOUS
  Doing, or according with, that which is right; yielding to all their due; just; equitable; especially, free from wrong, guilt, or sin; holy; as, a righteous man or act; a righteous retribution. Fearless in his righteous cause. Milton.
• FORTHRIGHTNESS
  Straightforwardness; explicitness; directness. Dante's concise forthrightness of phrase. Hawthorne.
• RIGHTEN
  To do justice to. Relieve the opressed. Isa. i. 17.
• RIGHT-LINED
  Formed by right lines; rectilineal; as, a right-lined angle.
• RIGHT-MINDED
  Having a right or honest mind. -- Right"-mind`ed*ness, n.
• RIGHT-HANDED
  Having the whorls rising from left to right; dextral; -- said of spiral shells. See Illust. of Scalaria. Right-handed screw, a screw, the threads of which, like those of a common wood screw, wind spirally in such a direction that screw advances
• KAKARALLI
  A kind of wood common in Demerara, durable in salt water, because not subject to the depredations of the sea worm and barnacle.
• BRIGHT
  See I
• CORALLIGENOUS
  producing coral; coraligerous; coralliferous. Humble.
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• CARTWRIGHT
  An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker.
• APPOSITION
  The state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first. Growth by apposition , a mode of growth characteristic
• SPRIGHTLY
  Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance. "Sprightly wit and love inspires." Dryden. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green. Pope.
• FRIGHTFUL
  1. Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne. 2. Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance. Syn.
• SHRIGHT
  imp. & p. p. of Shriek. She cried alway and shright. Chaucer.
• METROPOLITICAL
  Of or pertaining to a metropolis; being a metropolis; metropolitan; as, the metropolitical chair. Bp. Hall.
• CORALLIAN
  A deposit of coralliferous limestone forming a portion of the middle division of the oölite; -- called also coral-rag.
• OPPOSITIONIST
  One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed.
• INOBEDIENCE
  Disobedience. Wyclif. Chaucer.