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Word Meanings - TREASONOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Treasonable. Shak. The treasonous book of the Court of King James. Pepys.

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  • JAMESTOWN WEED
    The poisonous thorn apple or stramonium , a rank weed early noticed at Jamestown, Virginia. See Datura. Note: This name is often corrupted into jimson, jimpson, and gympsum.
  • COURTESAN
    A woman who prostitutes herself for hire; a prostitute; a harlot. Lasciviously decked like a courtesan. Sir H. Wotton. (more info) courtier, It. cortigiano; or directly fr. It. cortigiana, or Sp.
  • COURT TENNIS
    See TENNIS
  • COURT-CUPBOARD
    A movable sideboard or buffet, on which plate and other articles of luxury were displayed on special ocasions. A way with the joint stools, remove the court-cupboard, look to the plate. Shak.
  • COURTEPY
    A short coat of coarse cloth. Full threadbare was his overeste courtepy. Chaucer.
  • COURTBRED
    Bred, or educated, at court; polished; courtly.
  • COURTESANSHIP
    Harlotry.
  • 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;
  • COURT-MARTIAL
    A court consisting of military or naval officers, for the trial of one belonging to the army or navy, or of offenses against military or naval law.
  • COURTLIKE
    After the manner of a court; elegant; polite; courtly.
  • COURTEOUSNESS
    The quality of being courteous; politeness; courtesy.
  • JAMESONITE
    A steel-gray mineral, of metallic luster, commonly fibrous massive. It is a sulphide of antimony and lead, with a little iron.
  • JAMES'S POWDER
    Antimonial powder, first prepared by Dr. James, ar English physician; -- called also fever powder.
  • COURT-BARON
    An inferior court of civil jurisdiction, attached to a manor, and held by the steward; a baron's court; -- now fallen into disuse.
  • COURTELLE
    a wool-like fabric.
  • COURTEOUSLY
    In a courteous manner.
  • COURTYARD
    A court or inclosure attached to a house.
  • COURTIER
    1. One who is in attendance at the court of a prince; one who has an appointment at court. You know I am no courtier, nor versed in state affairs. Bacon. This courtier got a frigate, and that a company. Macualay. 2. One who courts or
  • COURT-PLASTER
    Sticking plaster made by coating taffeta or silk on one side with some adhesive substance, commonly a mixture of isinglass and glycerin.
  • COURTER
    One who courts; one who plays the lover, or who solicits in marriage; one who flatters and cajoles. Sherwood.
  • OUTCOURT
    An outer or exterior court. The skirts and outcourts of heaven. South.
  • UNCOURTLINESS
    Absence of courtliness; rudeness; rusticity. Addison.
  • DISCOURTESY
    Rudeness of behavior or language; ill manners; manifestation of disrespect; incivility. Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth discourtesy. Herbert.
  • DISCOURTEOUS
    Uncivil; rude; wanting in courtesy or good manners; uncourteous. -- Dis*cour"te*ous*ly, adv. -- Dis*cour"te*ous*ness, n.

 

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