Word Meanings - STAGE-STRUCK - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Fascinated by the stage; seized by a passionate desire to become an actor.
Related words: (words related to STAGE-STRUCK)
- STAGERY
Exhibition on the stage. - BECOME
happen; akin to D. bekomen, OHG.a piquëman, Goth. biquiman to come 1. To pass from one state to another; to enter into some state or condition, by a change from another state, or by assuming or receiving new properties or qualities, additional - ACTOR
1. One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer. 2. A theatrical performer; a stageplayer. After a well graced actor leaves the stage. Shak. An advocate or proctor in civil courts or causes. Jacobs. One who institutes a suit; plaintiff or - SEIZURE
1. The act of seizing, or the state of being seized; sudden and violent grasp or gripe; a taking into possession; as, the seizure of a thief, a property, a throne, etc. 2. Retention within one's grasp or power; hold; possession; ownership. Make - SEIZIN
Possession; possession of an estate of froehold. It may be either in deed or in law; the former when there is actual possession, the latter when there is a right to such possession by construction of law. In some of the United States seizin means - STAGECOACHMAN
One who drives a stagecoach. - DESIREFUL
Filled with desire; eager. The desireful troops. Godfrey . - BECOMED
Proper; decorous. And gave him what becomed love I might. Shak. - STAGECOACH
A coach that runs regularly from one stage, station, or place to another, for the conveyance of passengers. - SEIZER
One who, or that which, seizes. - SEIZING
1. The act of taking or grasping suddenly. The operation of fastening together or lashing. The cord or lashing used for such fastening. - DESIRE
sidus star, constellation, and hence orig., to turn the eyes from the 1. To long for; to wish for earnestly; to covet. Neither shall any man desire thy land. Ex. xxxiv. 24. Ye desire your child to live. Tennyson. 2. To express a wish - STAGELY
Pertaining to a stage; becoming the theater; theatrical. Jer. Taylor. - STAGEPLAYER
An actor on the stage; one whose occupation is to represent characters on the stage; as, Garrick was a celebrated stageplayer. - FASCINATE
1. To influence in an uncontrollable manner; to operate on by some powerful or irresistible charm; to bewitch; to enchant. It has been almost universally believed that . . . serpents can stupefy and fascinate the prey which they are desirous to - DESIRER
One who desires, asks, or wishes. - FASCINATION
1. The act of fascinating, bewhiching, or enchanting; enchantment; witchcraft; the exercise of a powerful or irresistible influence on the affections or passions; unseen, inexplicable influence. The Turks hang old rags . . . upon their fairest - STAGE DIRECTOR
One who prepares a play for production. He arranges the details of the stage settings, the business to be used, all stage effects, and instructs the actors, excepting usually the star, in the general interpretation of their parts. - SEIZOR
One who seizes, or takes possession. - SEIZE
To take possession of by virtue of a warrant or other legal authority; as, the sheriff seized the debtor's goods. 5. To fasten; to fix. As when a bear hath seized her cruel claws Upon the carcass of some beast too weak. Spenser. 6. To grap with - COMPASSIONATELY
In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon. - OLFACTOR
A smelling organ; a nose. - EXACTOR
One who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands. Jer. Taylor. - CALEFACTOR
A heater; one who, or that which, makes hot, as a stove, etc. - POST-DISSEIZOR
A person who disseizes another of lands which the disseizee had before recovered of the same disseizor. Blackstone. - SUBCONTRACTOR
One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor. - RETRACTOR
One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically: In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel. - TRACTORATION
See PERKINISM - REFRACTOR
Anything that refracts; specifically: - REDACTOR
One who redacts; one who prepares matter for publication; an editor. Carlyle. - INCOMPASSIONATE
Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n. - MALEFACTOR
1. An evil doer; one who commits a crime; one subject to public prosecution and punishment; a criminal. 2. One who does wrong by injuring another, although not a criminal. H. Brooke. Fuller. Syn. -- Evil doer; criminal; culprit; felon; convict. - SATISFACTORY
1. Giving or producing satisfaction; yielding content; especially, relieving the mind from doubt or uncertainty, and enabling it to rest with confidence; sufficient; as, a satisfactory account or explanation. 2. Making amends, indemnification, - OLFACTORY
Of, pertaining to, or connected with, the sense of smell; as, the olfactory nerves; the olfactory cells. Olfactory organ , an organ for smelling. In vertebrates the olfactory organs are more or less complicated sacs, situated in the front part - LACTORY
Lactiferous. "Lactory or milky plants." Sir T. Browne. - DISSEIZORESS
A woman disseizes. - WASTAGE
Loss by use, decay, evaporation, leakage, or the like; waste. - TRANSACTOR
One who transacts, performs, or conducts any business. Derham. - HOSTAGE
A person given as a pledge or security for the performance of the conditions of a treaty or stipulations of any kind, on the performance of which the person is to be released. Your hostages I have, so have you mine; And we shall talk before