Word Meanings - UNDERNIME - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. To receive; to perceive. He the savor undernom Which that the roses and the lilies cast. Chaucer. 2. To reprove; to reprehend. Piers Plowman.
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- RECEIVER'S CERTIFICATE
An acknowledgement of indebtedness made by a receiver under order of court to obtain funds for the preservation of the assets held by him, as for operating a railroad. Receivers' certificates are ordinarily a first lien on the assets, prior to that - RECEIVE
To bat back when served. Receiving ship, one on board of which newly recruited sailors are received, and kept till drafted for service. Syn. -- To accept; take; allow; hold; retain; admit. -- Receive, Accept. To receive describes simply the act - SAVORINESS
The quality of being savory. - REPREHENDER
One who reprehends. - SAVOROUS
Having a savor; savory. Rom. of R. - SAVORLY
In a savory manner. Barrow. - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - PERCEIVER
One who perceives . Milton. - PERCEIVE
perceptum; per + capere to take, receive. See Capacious, 1. To obtain knowledge of through the senses; to receive impressions from by means of the bodily organs; to take cognizance of the existence, character, or identity of, by means of the - WHICH
the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who. - REPROVE
1. To convince. When he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment. John xvi. 9. 2. To disprove; to refute. Reprove my allegation, if you can. Shak. 3. To chide to the face as blameworthy; to accuse as guilty; - RECEIVEDNESS
The state or quality of being received, accepted, or current; as, the receivedness of an opinion. Boyle. - REPREHEND
To reprove or reprimand with a view of restraining, checking, or preventing; to make charge of fault against; to disapprove of; to chide; to blame; to censure. Chaucer. Aristippus being reprehended of luxury by one that was not rich, for that he - REPROVER
One who, or that which, reproves. - SAVORY
The chewing flocks Had ta'en their supper on the savory herb. Milton. - SAVORILY
In a savory manner. - RECEIVERSHIP
The state or office of a receiver. - PLOWMAN; PLOUGHMAN
1. One who plows, or who holds and guides a plow; hence, a husbandman. Chaucer. Macaulay. 2. A rustic; a countryman; a field laborer. Plowman's spikenard , a European composite weed , having fragrant roots. Dr. Prior. - RECEIVER
A person appointed, ordinarily by a court, to receive, and hold in trust, money or other property which is the subject of litigation, pending the suit; a person appointed to take charge of the estate and effects of a corporation, and to do other - SAVORY; SAVOURY
An aromatic labiate plant , much used in cooking; -- also called summer savory. - MISRECEIVE
To receive wrongly. - APPERCEIVE
To perceive; to comprehend. Chaucer. - SELF-REPROVED
Reproved by one's own conscience or one's own sense of guilt. - UNREPROVED
1. Not reproved. Sandys. 2. Not having incurred reproof, blameless. In unreproved pleasures free. Milton.