Word Meanings - SPECULATOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who speculates. Specifically: An observer; a contemplator; hence, a spy; a watcher. Sir T. Browne. One who forms theories; a theorist. A speculator who had dared to affirm that the human soul is by nature mortal. Macaulay.

Related words: (words related to SPECULATOR)

• HUMANIZE
  To convert into something human or belonging to man; as, to humanize vaccine lymph. (more info) 1. To render human or humane; to soften; to make gentle by overcoming cruel dispositions and rude habits; to refine or civilize. Was it the business
• DARKEN
  Etym: 1. To make dark or black; to deprite of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room. They covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened. Ex. x. 15. So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began To darken all the hill. Milton.
• AFFIRMATIVELY
  In an affirmative manner; on the affirmative side of a question; in the affirmative; -- opposed to negatively.
• DARREIN
  Last; as, darrein continuance, the last continuance.
• HUMANIFY
  To make human; to invest with a human personality; to incarnate. The humanifying of the divine Word. H. B. Wilson.
• DARKNESS
  1. The absence of light; blackness; obscurity; gloom. And darkness was upon the face of the deep. Gen. i. 2. 2. A state of privacy; secrecy. What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light. Matt. x. 27. 3. A state of ignorance or
• DARING
  Boldness; fearlessness; adventurousness; also, a daring act.
• SPECIFICALLY
  In a specific manner.
• HUMANITARIANISM
  The distinctive tenet of the humanitarians in denying the divinity of Christ; also, the whole system of doctrine based upon this view of Christ.
• SPECULATORY
  1. Intended or adapted for viewing or espying; having oversight. T. Warton. 2. Exercising speculation; speculative. T. Carew.
• HUMANISM
  1. Human nature or disposition; humanity. looked almost like a being who had rejected with indifference the attitude of sex for the loftier quality of abstract humanism. T. Hardy. 2. The study of the humanities; polite learning.
• HUMANISTIC
  1. Of or pertaining to humanity; as, humanistic devotion. Caird. 2. Pertaining to polite kiterature. M. Arnold.
• DARE
  To have adequate or sufficient courage for any purpose; to be bold or venturesome; not to be afraid; to venture. I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none. Shak. Why then did not the ministers use their new law Bacause they
• DARKENING
  Twilight; gloaming. Wright.
• DARLINGTONIA
  A genus of California pitcher plants consisting of a single species. The long tubular leaves are hooded at the top, and frequently contain many insects drowned in the secretion of the leaves.
• AFFIRMATORY
  Giving affirmation; assertive; affirmative. Massey.
• HUMANITY
  The branches of polite or elegant learning; as language, rhetoric, poetry, and the ancient classics; belles-letters. Note: The cultivation of the languages, literature, history, and archæology of Greece and Rome, were very commonly called literæ
• HUMANIST
  1. One of the scholars who in the field of literature proper represented the movement of the Renaissance, and early in the 16th century adopted the name Humanist as their distinctive title. Schaff- Herzog. 2. One who purposes the study
• HUMANKIND
  Mankind. Pope.
• DARER
  One who dares or defies.
• INHUMANITY
  The quality or state of being inhuman; cruelty; barbarity. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn. Burns.
• SOLIDARE
  A small piece of money. Shak.
• PANDARISM
  See SWIFT
• PANDARIZE
  To pander.
• CEDARN
  Of or pertaining to the cedar or its wood.
• HEREHENCE
  From hence.
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• UNNATURE
  To change the nature of; to invest with a different or contrary nature. A right heavenly nature, indeed, as if were unnaturing them, doth so bridle them . Sir P. Sidney.
• GENDARMERY
  The body of gendarmes.
• REDARGUE
  To disprove; to refute; toconfute; to reprove; to convict. How shall I . . . suffer that God should redargue me at doomsday, and the angels reproach my lukewarmness Jer. Taylor. Now this objection to the immediate cognition of external objects has,
• ZEMINDARY; ZEMINDARI
  See ZAMINDARY
• HEBDOMADARY
  A member of a chapter or convent, whose week it is to officiate in the choir, and perform other services, which, on extraordinary occasions, are performed by the superiors.