Word Meanings - SIDESMAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A party man; a partisan. Milton. 2. An assistant to the churchwarden; a questman.

Related words: (words related to SIDESMAN)

• ASSISTANTLY
  In a manner to give aid.
• PARTY
  1. A part or portion. "The most party of the time." Chaucer. 2. A number of persons united in opinion or action, as distinguished from, or opposed to, the rest of a community or association; esp., one of the parts into which a people is divided
• PARTY-COLORED; PARTI-COLORED
  Colored with different tints; variegated; as, a party-colored flower. "Parti-colored lambs." Shak.
• PARTYISM
  Devotion to party.
• PARTISAN
  1. An adherent to a party or faction; esp., one who is strongly and passionately devoted to a party or an interest. "The violence of a partisan." Macaulay. Both sides had their partisans in the colony. Jefferson. The commander of a body of detached
• CHURCHWARDEN
  1. One of the officers in an Episcopal church, whose duties vary in different dioceses, but always include the provision of what is necessary for the communion service. 2. A clay tobacco pipe, with a long tube. There was a small wooden table
• PARTISANSHIP
  The state of being a partisan, or adherent to a party; feelings or conduct appropriate to a partisan.
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• ASSISTANT
  Of the second grade in the staff of the army; as, an assistant surgeon. Note: In the English army it designates the third grade in any particular branch of the staff. Farrow. (more info) 1. Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary. Genius and
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• QUESTMAN
  One legally empowered to make quest of certain matters, esp. of abuses of weights and measures. Specifically: A churchwarden's assistant; a sidesman. Blount. A collector of parish rents. Blount.
• PARTY-COATED
  Having a motley coat, or coat of divers colors. Shak.
• CHURCHWARDENSHIP
  The office of a churchwarden.
• POURPARTY
  A division; a divided share. To make pourparty, to divide and apportion lands previously held in common.
• PURPARTY
  A share, part, or portion of an estate allotted to a coparcener. I am forced to eat all the game of your purparties, as well as my own thirds. Walpole.
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
• PROGRESSIVE PARTY
  The political party formed, chiefly out of the Republican party, by the adherents of Theodore Roosevelt in the presidential campaign of 1912. The name Progressive party was chosen at the meeting held on Aug. 7, 1912, when the candidates
• PEOPLE'S PARTY
  A party formed in 1891, advocating in an increase of the currency, public ownership and operation of railroads, telegraphs, etc., an income tax, limitation in ownership of land, etc.