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Word Meanings - SHOGUN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A title originally conferred by the Mikado on the military governor of the eastern provinces of Japan. By gradual usurpation of power the Shoguns became finally the

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  • TITLELESS
    Not having a title or name; without legitimate title. "A titleless tyrant." Chaucer.
  • TITLED
    Having or bearing a title.
  • JAPAN CURRENT
    A branch of the equatorial current of the Pacific, washing the eastern coast of Formosa and thence flowing northeastward past Japan and merging into the easterly drift of the North Pacific; -- called also Kuro-Siwo, or Black Stream, in allusion
  • POWERFUL
    Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any
  • TITLER
    A large truncated cone of refined sugar.
  • POWERABLE
    1. Capable of being effected or accomplished by the application of power; possible. J. Young. 2. Capable of exerting power; powerful. Camden.
  • GOVERNORSHIP
    The office of a governor.
  • JAPANNED
    Treated, or coated, with varnish in the Japanese manner. Japanned leather,leather treated with coatings of Japan varnish, and dried in a stove. Knight.
  • CONFERRABLE
    Capable of being conferred.
  • GRADUAL
    Proceeding by steps or degrees; advancing, step by step, as in ascent or descent or from one state to another; regularly progressive; slow; as, a gradual increase of knowledge; a gradual decline. Creatures animate with gradual life Of growth, sense,
  • JAPANESE
    Of or pertaining to Japan, or its inhabitants.
  • EASTERN CHURCH
    That portion of the Christian church which prevails in the countries once comprised in the Eastern Roman Empire and the countries converted to Christianity by missionaries from them. Its full official title is The Orthodox Catholic Apostolic Eastern
  • JAPANNING
    The art or act of varnishing in the Japanese manner.
  • TITLE-PAGE
    The page of a book which contains it title. The world's all title-page; there's no contents. Young.
  • GRADUALITY
    The state of being gradual; gradualness. Sir T. Browne.
  • EASTERNMOST
    Most eastern.
  • POWERLESS
    Destitute of power, force, or energy; weak; impotent; not able to produce any effect. -- Pow"er*less*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*less*ness, n.
  • CONFERRER
    1. One who confers; one who converses. Johnson. 2. One who bestows; a giver.
  • GRADUALLY
    1. In a gradual manner. 2. In degree. Human reason doth not only gradually, but specifically, differ from the fantastic reason of brutes. Grew.
  • JAPANNISH
    After the manner of the Japanese; resembling japanned articles. Carlyle.
  • ABORIGINALLY
    Primarily.
  • CANDLE POWER
    Illuminating power, as of a lamp, or gas flame, reckoned in terms of the light of a standard candle.
  • IMPOWER
    See EMPOWER
  • UNTITLED
    1. Not titled; having no title, or appellation of dignity or distinction. Spenser. 2. Being without title or right; not entitled. Shak.
  • CATCH TITLE
    A short expressive title used for abbreviated book lists, etc.
  • POLICE POWER
    The inherent power of a government to regulate its police affairs. The term police power is not definitely fixed in meaning. In the earlier cases in the United States it was used as including the whole power of internal government, or the powers
  • DISEMPOWER
    To deprive of power; to divest of strength. H. Bushnell.

 

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