Word Meanings - SECONDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who seconds or supports what another attempts, affirms, moves, or proposes; as, the seconder of an enterprise or of a motion.

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• ENTERPRISER
  One who undertakes enterprises. Sir J. Hayward.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• MOTIONER
  One who makes a motion; a mover. Udall.
• MOTIONIST
  A mover.
• ENTERPRISE
  1. That which is undertaken; something attempted to be performed; a work projected which involves activity, courage, energy, and the like; a bold, arduous, or hazardous attempt; an undertaking; as, a manly enterprise; a warlike enterprise. Shak.
• SECONDER
  One who seconds or supports what another attempts, affirms, moves, or proposes; as, the seconder of an enterprise or of a motion.
• MOTION PICTURE
  A moving picture.
• MOTIONLESS
  Without motion; being at rest.
• ANOTHER
  1. One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect. Another yet! -- a seventh! I 'll see no more. Shak. Would serve to scale another Hero's tower. Shak. 2. Not the same; different. He winks,
• MOTION
  An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or rule directing some act to be done in favor of the applicant. Mozley & W. (more info) 1. The act, process, or state of changing place or position;
• ANOTHER-GAINES
  Of another kind. Sir P. Sidney.
• ANOTHER-GATES
  Of another sort. "Another-gates adventure." Hudibras.
• EXCITO-MOTION
  Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
• NERVIMOTION
  The movement caused in the sensory organs by external agents and transmitted to the muscles by the nerves. Dunglison.
• IDEO-MOTION
  An ideo-motor movement.
• PREMOTION
  Previous motion or excitement to action.
• ELECTRO-MOTION
  The motion of electricity or its passage from one metal to another in a voltaic circuit; mechanical action produced by means of electricity.
• LINK MOTION
  A valve gear, consisting of two eccentrics with their rods, giving motion to a slide valve by an adjustable connecting bar, called the link, in such a way that the motion of the engine can be reversed, or the cut-off varied, at will; -- used very
• EMOTIONALIZE
  To give an emotional character to. Brought up in a pious family where religion was not talked about emotionalized, but was accepted as the rule of thought and conduct. Froude.
• EMOTIONALISM
  The cultivation of an emotional state of mind; tendency to regard things in an emotional manner.
• COMMOTION
  1. Disturbed or violent motion; agitation. commotion in the winds! Shak. 2. A popular tumult; public disturbance; riot. When ye shall hear of wars and commotions. Luke xxi. 9. 3. Agitation, perturbation, or disorder, of mind; heat; excitement.
• SELF-MOTION
  Motion given by inherent power, without external impulse; spontaneus or voluntary motion. Matter is not induced with self-motion. Cheyne.