Word Meanings - TEMPTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who tempts or entices; especially, Satan, or the Devil, regarded as the great enticer to evil. "Those who are bent to do wickedly will never want tempters to urge them on." Tillotson. So glozed the Tempter, and his proem tuned. Milton.

Related words: (words related to TEMPTER)

• PROEMBRYO
  The series of cells formed in the ovule of a flowering plant after fertilization, but before the formation of the embryo. The primary growth from the spore in certain cryptogamous plants; as, the proembryo, or protonema, of mosses.
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• NEVERTHELESS
  Not the less; notwithstanding; in spite of that; yet. No chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous; nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness. Heb. xii. 11. Syn. -- However; at least; yet; still.
• DEVILET
  A little devil. Barham.
• TEMPTER
  One who tempts or entices; especially, Satan, or the Devil, regarded as the great enticer to evil. "Those who are bent to do wickedly will never want tempters to urge them on." Tillotson. So glozed the Tempter, and his proem tuned. Milton.
• THOSE
  The plural of that. See That.
• DEVILESS
  A she-devil. Sterne.
• DEVILISM
  The state of the devil or of devils; doctrine of the devil or of devils. Bp. Hall.
• DEVILISH
  1. Resembling, characteristic of, or pertaining to, the devil; diabolical; wicked in the extreme. "Devilish wickedness." Sir P. Sidney. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. James iii. 15. 2. Extreme; excessive.
• GREAT-GRANDSON
  A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• DEVILFISH
  A huge ray of the Gulf of Mexico and Southern Atlantic coasts. Several other related species take the same name. See Cephaloptera. A large cephalopod, especially the very large species of Octopus and Architeuthis. See Octopus. The gray whale
• TUNNAGE
  See TONNAGE
• GREAT-HEARTEDNESS
  The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity.
• PROEMIAL
  Introductory; prefatory; preliminary. Hammond.
• GLOZER
  A flatterer. Gifford .
• WICKEDLY
  In a wicked manner; in a manner, or with motives and designs, contrary to the divine law or the law of morality; viciously; corruptly; immorally. I have sinned, and I have done wickedly. 2 Sam. xxiv. 17.
• DEVILWOOD
  A kind of tree , allied to the European olive.
• TUNNEL STERN
  A design of motor-boat stern, for use in shallow waters, in which the propeller is housed in a tunnel and does not extend below the greatest draft.
• GREAT-GRANDMOTHER
  The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• WHENEVER
  At whatever time. "Whenever that shall be." Milton.
• STUNNER
  1. One who, or that which, stuns. 2. Something striking or amazing in quality; something of extraordinary excellence. Thackeray.
• STUNDIST
  One of a large sect of Russian dissenters founded, about 1860, in the village of Osnova, near Odessa, by a peasant, Onishchenko, who had apparently been influenced by a German sect settled near there. They zealously practice Bible reading and reject
• INGREAT
  To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
• SPATHOSE
  See SPATHIC
• VAUDEVILLE
  where Olivier Basselin, at the end of the 14th century, composed such 1. A kind of song of a lively character, frequently embodying a satire on some person or event, sung to a familiar air in couplets with a refrain; a street song; a topical song.
• STUNSAIL
  A contraction of Studding sail. With every rag set, stunsails, sky scrapers and all. Lowell.
• MISFORTUNED
  Unfortunate.
• APPRENTICESHIP
  1. The service or condition of an apprentice; the state in which a person is gaining instruction in a trade or art, under legal agreement. 2. The time an apprentice is serving (sometimes seven years, as from the age of fourteen to twenty-one).
• IMPORTUNELY
  In an importune manner.
• INOPPORTUNELY
  Not opportunely; unseasonably; inconveniently.
• SWINGDEVIL
  The European swift.
• OPPORTUNIST
  One who advocates or practices opportunism.