Word Meanings - TERRORIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who governs by terrorism or intimidation; specifically, an agent or partisan of the revolutionary tribunal during the Reign of Terror in France. Burke.

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• DURAMEN
  The heartwood of an exogenous tree.
• DURIO
  A fruit tree of the Indian Archipelago. It bears the durian.
• TERRORLESS
  Free from terror. Poe.
• DUROUS
  Hard.
• SPECIFICALLY
  In a specific manner.
• DURANTE
  During; as, durante vita, during life; durante bene placito, during pleasure.
• DURANCY
  Duration. Dr. H. More.
• DURRA
  A kind of millet, cultivated throughout Asia, and introduced into the south of Europe; a variety of Sorghum vulgare; -- called
• DUR
  Major; in the major mode; as, C dur, that is, C major.
• DURABILITY
  The state or quality of being durable; the power of uninterrupted or long continuance in any condition; the power of resisting agents or influences which tend to cause changes, decay, or dissolution; lastingness. A Gothic cathedral raises ideas
• TERRORIZE
  To impress with terror; to coerce by intimidation. Humiliated by the tyranny of foreign despotism, and terrorized by ecclesiastical authority. J. A. Symonds.
• AGENT
  1. One who exerts power, or has the power to act; an actor. Heaven made us agents, free to good or ill. Dryden. 2. One who acts for, or in the place of, another, by authority from him; one intrusted with the business of another; a substitute; a
• DURATION
  The state or quality of lasting; continuance in time; the portion of time during which anything exists. It was proposed that the duration of Parliament should be limited. Macaulay. Soon shall have passed our own human duration. D. Webster.
• TRIBUNAL
  1. The seat of a judge; the bench on which a judge and his associates sit for administering justice. 2. Hence, a court or forum; as, the House of Lords, in England, is the highest tribunal in the kingdom.
• DURUKULI
  A small, nocturnal, South American monkey (Nyctipthecus trivirgatus).
• PARTISAN
  1. An adherent to a party or faction; esp., one who is strongly and passionately devoted to a party or an interest. "The violence of a partisan." Macaulay. Both sides had their partisans in the colony. Jefferson. The commander of a body of detached
• DURING
  In the time of; as long as the action or existence of; as, during life; during the space of a year.
• DURST
  of Dare. See Dare, v. i.
• REIGNER
  One who reigns.
• TERRORISM
  The act of terrorizing, or state of being terrorized; a mode of government by terror or intimidation. Jefferson.
• REVERDURE
  To cover again with verdure. Ld. Berners.
• INTERAGENT
  An intermediate agent.
• PREIGNITION
  Ignition in an internal-combustion engine while the inlet valve is open or before compression is completed.
• PODURA
  Any small leaping thysanurous insect of the genus Podura and related genera; a springtail. Podura scale , one of the minute scales with which the body of a podura is covered. They are used as test objects for the microscope. (more info) podo`s,
• OBDURATION
  A hardening of the heart; hardness of heart.
• ORDURE
  1. Dung; excrement; fæces. Shak. 2. Defect; imperfection; fault. Holland.
• BORDURE
  A border one fifth the width of the shield, surrounding the field. It is usually plain, but may be charged.
• HAGUE TRIBUNAL
  The permanent court of arbitration created by the "International Convention for the Pacific Settle of International Disputes.", adopted by the International Peace Conference of 1899. It is composed of persons of known competency in questions of
• ENDURANT
  Capable of enduring fatigue, pain, hunger, etc. The ibex is a remarkably endurant animal. J. G. Wood.
• ADUROL
  Either of two compounds, a chlorine derivative and bromine derivative, of hydroquinone, used as developers.
• ENDUREMENT
  Endurance. South.
• FOREIGNER
  A person belonging to or owning allegiance to a foreign country; one not native in the country or jurisdiction under consideration, or not naturalized there; an alien; a stranger. Joy is such a foreigner, So mere a stranger to my thoughts. Denham.