Word Meanings - TOADYISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The practice of meanly fawning on another; base sycophancy; servile adulation.

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• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• FAWNINGLY
  In a fawning manner.
• SERVILELY
  In a servile manner; slavishly.
• SERVILENESS
  Quality of being servile; servility.
• PRACTICER
  1. One who practices, or puts in practice; one who customarily performs certain acts. South. 2. One who exercises a profession; a practitioner. 3. One who uses art or stratagem. B. Jonson.
• FAWN-COLORED
  Of the color of a fawn; light yellowish brown.
• PRACTICED
  1. Experienced; expert; skilled; as, a practiced marksman. "A practiced picklock." Ld. Lytton. 2. Used habitually; learned by practice.
• ADULATION
  Servile flattery; praise in excess, or beyond what is merited. Think'st thou the fiery fever will go out With titles blown from adulation Shak. Syn. -- Sycophancy; cringing; fawning; obsequiousness; blandishment. -- Adulation, Flattery, Compliment.
• PRACTICE
  A easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business. (more info) also, practique, LL. practica, fr. Gr. Practical, and cf. Pratique, 1. Frequently repeated or customary action;
• ANOTHER
  1. One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect. Another yet! -- a seventh! I 'll see no more. Shak. Would serve to scale another Hero's tower. Shak. 2. Not the same; different. He winks,
• MEANLY
  Moderately. A man meanly learned himself, but not meanly affectioned to set forward learning in others. Ascham.
• SERVILE
  1. Of or pertaining to a servant or slave; befitting a servant or a slave; proceeding from dependence; hence, meanly submissive; slavish; mean; cringing; fawning; as, servile flattery; servile fear; servile obedience. She must bend the servile
• SYCOPHANCY
  The character or characteristic of a sycophant. Hence: - False accusation; calumniation; talebearing. Bp. Hall. Obsequious flattery; servility. The sycophancy of A.Philips had prejudiced Mr. Addison against Pope. Bp. Warburton.
• ANOTHER-GAINES
  Of another kind. Sir P. Sidney.
• FAWNER
  One who fawns; a sycophant.
• FAWN
  A young deer; a buck or doe of the first year. See Buck. 2. The young of an animal; a whelp. . . . followeth . . . after her fawns. Holland. 3. A fawn color.
• ANOTHER-GATES
  Of another sort. "Another-gates adventure." Hudibras.
• OUTFAWN
  To exceed in fawning.
• MALPRACTICE
  Evil practice; illegal or immoral conduct; practice contrary to established rules; specifically, the treatment of a case by a surgeon or physician in a manner which is contrary to accepted rules and productive of unfavorable results.
• TITANOTHERIUM
  A large American Miocene mammal, allied to the rhinoceros, and more nearly to the extinct Brontotherium.
• MISPRACTICE
  Wrong practice.