Word Meanings - STEWARDLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a manner, or with the care, of a steward. To be stewardly dispensed, not wastefully spent. Tooker.

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• DISPENSE
  1. To deal out in portions; to distribute; to give; as, the steward dispenses provisions according directions; Nature dispenses her bounties; to dispense medicines. He is delighted to dispense a share of it to all the company. Sir W. Scott. 2.
• DISPENSABLE
  1. Capable of being dispensed or administered. 2. Capable of being dispensed with. Coleridge.
• DISPENSATIVELY
  By dispensation. Wotton.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• STEWARDSHIP
  The office of a steward. Shak.
• DISPENSATIVE
  Granting dispensation.
• DISPENSARY
  1. A place where medicines are prepared and dispensed; esp., a place where the poor can obtain medical advice and medicines gratuitously or at a nominal price. 2. A dispensatory. Pope.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• DISPENSATORY
  Granting, or authorized to grant, dispensations. "Dispensatory power." Bp. Rainbow.
• STEWARDESS
  A female steward; specifically, a woman employed in passenger vessels to attend to the wants of female passengers.
• DISPENSATION
  a system of principles, promises, and rules ordained and administered; scheme; economy; as, the Patriarchal, Mosaic, and Christian dispensations. Neither are God's methods or intentions different in his dispensations to each private man. Rogers.
• DISPENSATOR
  A distributer; a dispenser. Bacon.
• SPENT
  Exhausted of spawn or sperm; -- said especially of fishes. Spent ball, a ball shot from a firearm, which reaches an object without having sufficient force to penetrate it. (more info) 1. Exhausted; worn out; having lost energy or motive force.
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• MANNERED
  1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
• DISPENSABLENESS
  Quality of being dispensable.
• MANNER
  manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner
• DISPENSATORILY
  In the way of dispensation; dispensatively.
• STEWARD
  a sty ward; stigu sty + weard warden, guardian, -- his first duty having been probably to attend to the domestic animals. *164. See Sty 1. A man employed in a large family, or on a large estate, to manage the domestic concerns, supervise other
• INDISPENSABLENESS
  The state or quality of being indispensable, or absolutely necessary. S. Clarke.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• UNDISPENSED
  1. Not dispensed. 2. Not freed by dispensation. Tooker.
• MISSPENT
  of Misspend.
• INDISPENSABILITY
  Indispensableness.
• INDISPENSABLY
  In an indispensable manner. "Indispensably necessary." Bp. Warburton.
• INDISPENSABLE
  Not admitting dispensation; not subject to release or exemption. The law was moral and indispensable. Bp. Burnet. 3. Unavoidable; inevitable. Fuller. (more info) 1. Not dispensable; impossible to be omitted, remitted, or spared; absolutely
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.