Word Meanings - TREASONABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to treason; consisting of treason; involving the crime of treason, or partaking of its guilt. Most men's heads had been intoxicated with imaginations of plots and treasonable practices. Clarendon. Syn. -- Treacherous; traitorous;

Additional info about word: TREASONABLE

Pertaining to treason; consisting of treason; involving the crime of treason, or partaking of its guilt. Most men's heads had been intoxicated with imaginations of plots and treasonable practices. Clarendon. Syn. -- Treacherous; traitorous; perfidious; insidious. -- Trea"son*a*ble*ness, n. -- Trea"son*a*bly, adv.

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• HEADSTALL
  That part of a bridle or halter which encompasses the head. Shak.
• GUILTLESS
  1. Free from guilt; innocent. The Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. Ex. xx. 7. 2. Without experience or trial; unacquainted . Such gardening tools, as art, yet rude, Guiltless of fire, had formed. Milton.
• INVOLVEDNESS
  The state of being involved.
• CONSISTENTLY
  In a consistent manner.
• GUILTINESS
  The quality or state of being guilty.
• HEADSTRONG
  1. Not easily restrained; ungovernable; obstinate; stubborn. Not let headstrong boy my will control. Dryden. 2. Directed by ungovernable will, or proceeding from obstinacy. Dryden. Syn. -- Violent; obstinate; ungovernable; unratable; stubborn;
• CONSIST
  1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col.
• CONSISTORIAN
  Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. Milton.
• HEADSTONE
  1. The principal stone in a foundation; the chief or corner stone. Ps. cxviii. 22. 2. The stone at the head of a grave.
• HEADSTRONGNESS
  Obstinacy. Gayton.
• CONSISTENCE; CONSISTENCY
  1. The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity. Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence. Bacon. We
• CONSISTORY
  The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere. Hook. (more info) consistorium a place of assembly, the place where the emperor's council met, fr. consistere: cf.
• TREASONABLE
  Pertaining to treason; consisting of treason; involving the crime of treason, or partaking of its guilt. Most men's heads had been intoxicated with imaginations of plots and treasonable practices. Clarendon. Syn. -- Treacherous; traitorous;
• PARTAKER
  1. One who partakes; a sharer; a participator. Partakers of their spiritual things. Rom. xv. 27. Wish me partaker in my happiness. Shark. 2. An accomplice; an associate; a partner. Partakers wish them in the blood of the prophets. Matt. xxiii. 30.
• GUILTILY
  In a guilty manner.
• CRIME
  which is subjected to such a decision, charge, fault, crime, fr. the 1. Any violation of law, either divine or human; an omission of a duty commanded, or the commission of an act forbidden by law. 2. Gross violation of human law, in distinction
• CRIMELESS
  Free from crime; innocent. Shak.
• HEADSAIL
  Any sail set forward of the foremast. Totten.
• TREACHEROUS
  Like a traitor; involving treachery; violating allegiance or faith pledged; traitorous to the state or sovereign; perfidious in private life; betraying a trust; faithless. Loyal father of a treacherous son. Shak. The treacherous smile, a mask for
• INTOXICATEDNESS
  The state of being intoxicated; intoxication; drunkenness.
• INCONSISTENTLY
  In an inconsistent manner.
• FALSICRIMEN
  The crime of falsifying. Note: This term in the Roman law included not only forgery, but every species of fraud and deceit. It never has been used in so extensive a sense in modern common law, in which its predominant significance is forgery, though
• INCONSISTENCY
  1. The quality or state of being inconsistent; discordance in respect to sentiment or action; such contrariety between two things that both can not exist or be true together; disagreement; incompatibility. There is a perfect inconsistency between
• FLOORHEADS
  The upper extermities of the floor of a vessel.