Word Meanings - SPLENITIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Splenetic. Shak. Even and smooth as seemed the temperament of the nonchalant, languid Virginian -- not splenitive or rash. T. N. Page.

Related words: (words related to SPLENITIVE)

• SEEMINGNESS
  Semblance; fair appearance; plausibility. Sir K. Digby.
• SMOOTHEN
  To make smooth.
• SMOOTHNESS
  Quality or state of being smooth.
• NONCHALANT
  Indifferent; careless; cool. (more info) concern one's self for, fr. L. calere to be warm, to be inflamed with
• SMOOTH
  1. The act of making smooth; a stroke which smooths. Thackeray. 2. That which is smooth; the smooth part of anything. "The smooth of his neck." Gen. xxvii. 16.
• SMOOTH-CHINNED
  Having a smooth chin; beardless. Drayton.
• SEEMING
  1. Appearance; show; semblance; fair appearance; speciousness. These keep Seeming and savor all the winter long. Shak. 2. Apprehension; judgment. Chaucer. Nothing more clear unto their seeming. Hooker. His persuasive words, impregned With reason,
• SMOOTHLY
  In a smooth manner.
• SPLENETICAL
  Splenetic.
• SMOOTH-SPOKEN
  Speaking smoothly; plausible; flattering; smooth-tongued.
• SMOOTHER
  One who, or that which, smooths.
• TEMPERAMENTAL
  Of or pertaining to temperament; constitutional. Sir T. Browne.
• SPLENETIC
  A person affected with spleen.
• SMOOTHING
  fr. Smooth, v. Smoothing iron, an iron instrument with a polished face, for smoothing clothes; a sadiron; a flatiron. -- Smoothing plane, a short, finely set plane, for smoothing and finishing work.
• NONCHALANTLY
  In a nonchalant, indifferent, or careless manner; coolly.
• SEEMINGLY
  In appearance; in show; in semblance; apparently; ostensibly. This the father seemingly complied with. Addison.
• SPLENETICALLY
  In a splenetical manner.
• SEEMLYHED
  Comely or decent appearance. Rom. of R. Spenser.
• LANGUID
  1. Drooping or flagging from exhaustion; indisposed to exertion; without animation; weak; weary; heavy; dull. " Languid, powerless limbs. " Armstrong. Fire their languid souls with Cato's virtue. Addison. 2. Slow in progress; tardy. " No motion
• SEEMER
  One who seems; one who carries or assumes an appearance or semblance. Hence shall we see, If power change purpose, what our seemers be. Shak.
• MESEEMS
  It seems to me.
• UNSEEMLY
  Not seemly; unbecoming; indecent. An unseemly outbreak of temper. Hawthorne.
• BESEEMING
  1. Appearance; look; garb. I . . . did company these three in poor beseeming. Shak. 2. Comeliness. Baret.
• BERSEEM
  An Egyptian clover extensively cultivated as a forage plant and soil-renewing crop in the alkaline soils of the Nile valley, and now introduced into the southwestern United States. It is more succulent than other clovers or than alfalfa. Called
• UNSEEM
  Not to seem. Shak.
• MISBESEEM
  To suit ill.
• INTEMPERAMENT
  A bad state; as, the intemperament of an ulcerated part. Harvey.
• BESEEM
  Literally: To appear or seem for to do or to have. Hence: To be fit, suitable, or proper for, or worthy of; to become; to befit. A duty well beseeming the preachers. Clarendon. What form of speech or behavior beseemeth us, in our prayers to God
• BESEEMLY
  Fit; suitable; becoming. In beseemly order sitten there. Shenstone.
• UNSEEMING
  Unbeseeming; not fit or becoming.