Word Meanings - SPORTULA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A gift; a present; a prize; hence, an alms; a largess. To feed luxuriously, to frequent sports and theaters, to run for the sportula. South.

Related words: (words related to SPORTULA)

• FREQUENTATIVE
  Serving to express the frequent repetition of an action; as, a frequentative verb. -- n.
• SOUTHSAY
  See SOOTHSAY
• SOUTHWESTERLY
  To ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind.
• SOUTHERNLINESS
  Southerliness.
• PRESENT
  one, in sight or at hand, p. p. of praeesse to be before; prae before 1. Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent. These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. John xiv. 25.
• PRESENTIVE
  Bringing a conception or notion directly before the mind; presenting an object to the memory of imagination; -- distinguished from symbolic. How greatly the word "will" is felt to have lost presentive power in the last three centuries. Earle. --
• SOUTHREN
  Southern. "I am a Southren man." Chaucer.
• PRESENTANEOUS
  Ready; quick; immediate in effect; as, presentaneous poison. Harvey.
• PRESENTLY
  1. At present; at this time; now. The towns and forts you presently have. Sir P. Sidney. 2. At once; without delay; forthwith; also, less definitely, soon; shortly; before long; after a little while; by and by. Shak. And presently the fig tree
• SOUTHSAYER
  See SOOTHSAYER
• SOUTH; SOUTHERLY
  the old squaw; -- so called in imitation of its cry. Called also southerly, and southerland. See under Old.
• PRESENTER
  One who presents.
• SOUTHING
  Distance of any heavenly body south of the equator; south declination; south latitude. (more info) 1. Tendency or progress southward; as, the southing of the sun. Emerson. 2. The time at which the moon, or other heavenly body, passes the meridian
• FREQUENTNESS
  The quality of being frequent.
• SOUTHNESS
  A tendency in the end of a magnetic needle to point toward the south pole. Faraday.
• FREQUENTATION
  The act or habit of frequenting or visiting often; resort. Chesterfield.
• SOUTHWEST
  The point of the compass equally from the south and the west; the southwest part or region.
• SOUTHEASTERN
  Of or pertaining to the southeast; southeasterly.
• SOUTHEAST
  The point of the compass equally distant from the south and the east; the southeast part or region.
• SOUTHWESTWARD; SOUTHWESTWARDLY
  Toward the southwest.
• OVERFREQUENT
  Too frequent.
• HEREHENCE
  From hence.
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• NONPRESENTATION
  Neglect or failure to present; state of not being presented.
• REPRESENTABLE
  Capable of being represented.
• TOTIPRESENT
  Omnipresence. A. Tucker.
• OMNIPRESENTIAL
  Implying universal presence. South.
• REPRESENTANT
  Appearing or acting for another; representing.
• THENCEFROM
  From that place.
• OVERPRIZE
  Toprize excessively; to overvalue. Sir H. Wotton.
• IRREPRESENTABLE
  Not capable of being represented or portrayed.