Word Meanings - REVINCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To overcome; to refute, as error. Foxe.

Related words: (words related to REVINCE)

• ERRORFUL
  Full of error; wrong. Foxe.
• OVERCOMER
  One who overcomes.
• REFUTER
  One who, or that which, refutes.
• OVERCOME
  1. To get the better of; to surmount; to conquer; to subdue; as, to overcome enemies in battle. This wretched woman overcome Of anguish, rather than of crime, hath been. Spenser. 2. To overflow; to surcharge. J. Philips. 3. To come or pass over;
• ERROR
  The difference between the approximate result and the true result; -- used particularly in the rule of double position. The difference between an observed value and the true value of a quantity. The difference between the observed value
• REFUTE
  To disprove and overthrow by argument, evidence, or countervailing proof; to prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; as, to refute arguments; to refute testimony; to refute opinions or theories; to refute a disputant. There were so
• ERRORIST
  One who encourages and propagates error; one who holds to error.
• TERRORLESS
  Free from terror. Poe.
• TERRORIZE
  To impress with terror; to coerce by intimidation. Humiliated by the tyranny of foreign despotism, and terrorized by ecclesiastical authority. J. A. Symonds.
• TERRORISM
  The act of terrorizing, or state of being terrorized; a mode of government by terror or intimidation. Jefferson.
• NIGHT TERRORS
  A sudden awkening associated with a sensation of terror, occurring in children, esp. those of unstable nervous constitution.
• TERROR
  tersere; akin to Gr. tras to tremble, to be afraid, Russ. triasti to 1. Extreme fear; fear that agitates body and mind; violent dread; fright. Terror seized the rebel host. Milton. 2. That which excites dread; a cause of extreme fear.
• TERRORIST
  One who governs by terrorism or intimidation; specifically, an agent or partisan of the revolutionary tribunal during the Reign of Terror in France. Burke.