Word Meanings - RESPECTIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Noticing with attention; hence, careful; wary; considerate. If you look upon the church of England with a respective eye, you can not . . . refuse this charge. A 2. Looking towardl having reference to; relative, not absolute; as, the respective

Additional info about word: RESPECTIVE

1. Noticing with attention; hence, careful; wary; considerate. If you look upon the church of England with a respective eye, you can not . . . refuse this charge. A 2. Looking towardl having reference to; relative, not absolute; as, the respective connections of society. 3. Relating to particular persons or things, each to each; particular; own; as, they returned to their respective places of abode. 4. Fitted to awaken respect. Shak. 5. Rendering respect; respectful; regardful. With respective shame, rose, took us by the hands. Chapman. With thy equals familiar, yet respective. Lord Burleigh.

Related words: (words related to RESPECTIVE)

• CHURCHLINESS
  Regard for the church.
• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• CHURCHLIKE
  Befitting a church or a churchman; becoming to a clergyman. Shak.
• LOOKDOWN
  See
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• CHARGEANT
  Burdensome; troublesome. Chaucer.
• CHARGE
  1. A load or burder laid upon a person or thing. 2. A person or thing commited or intrusted to the care, custody, or management of another; a trust. Note: The people of a parish or church are called the charge of the clergyman who is set over them.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• ABSOLUTENESS
  The quality of being absolute; independence of everything extraneous; unlimitedness; absolute power; independent reality; positiveness.
• CHURCH
  AS. circe, cyrice; akin to D. kerk, Icel. kirkja, Sw. kyrka, Dan. kirke, G. kirche, OHG. chirihha; all fr. Gr. ç'd4ra hero, Zend. çura 1. A building set apart for Christian worship. 2. A Jewish or heathen temple. Acts xix. 37. 3. A formally
• CHURCHYARD
  The ground adjoining a church, in which the dead are buried; a cemetery. Like graves in the holy churchyard. Shak. Syn. -- Burial place; burying ground; graveyard; necropolis; cemetery; God's acre.
• CHURCH-BENCH
  A seat in the porch of a church. Shak.
• CHARGEABLE
  1. That may be charged, laid, imposed, or imputes; as, a duty chargeable on iron; a fault chargeable on a man. 2. Subject to be charge or accused; liable or responsible; as, revenues chargeable with a claim; a man chargeable with murder. 3. Serving
• NOTICE
  1. The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note. How ready is envy to mingle with the notices we take of other persons ! I. Watts. 2. Intelligence, by whatever means communicated; knowledge
• CHURCH MODES
  The modes or scales used in ancient church music. See Gregorian.
• CHARGE D'AFFAIRES
  A diplomatic representative, or minister of an inferior grade, accredited by the government of one state to the minister of foreign affairs of another; also, a substitute, ad interim, for an ambassador or minister plenipotentiary.
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• CHURCHSHIP
  State of being a church. South.
• RELATIVELY
  In a relative manner; in relation or respect to something else; not absolutely. Consider the absolute affections of any being as it is in itself, before you consider it relatively. I. Watts.
• CAREFULLY
  In a careful manner.
• HYPNOTIC
  1. Having the quality of producing sleep; tending to produce sleep; soporific. 2. Of or pertaining to hypnotism; in a state of hypnotism; liable to hypnotism; as, a hypnotic condition.
• ILL-LOOKING
  Having a bad look; threatening; ugly. See Note under Ill, adv.
• MISCHARGE
  To charge erroneously, as in account. -- n.
• ENCHARGE
  To charge ; to impose upon. His countenance would express the spirit and the passion of the part he was encharged with. Jeffrey.
• HEREHENCE
  From hence.
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• FLOOKAN; FLUKAN
  See FLUCAN
• OVERCHARGE
  1. To charge or load too heavily; to burden; to oppress; to cloy. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. To fill too full; to crowd. Our language is overcharged with consonants. Addison. 3. To charge excessively; to charge beyond a fair rate or price. 4.
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.