Word Meanings - UNDERSAY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To say by way of derogation or contradiction. Spenser.

Related words: (words related to UNDERSAY)

• CONTRADICTION
  1. An assertion of the contrary to what has been said or affirmed; denial of the truth of a statement or assertion; contrary declaration; gainsaying. His fair demands Shall be accomplished without contradiction. Shak. 2. Direct opposition
• DEROGATION
  An alteration of, or subtraction from, a contract for a sale of stocks. (more info) 1. The act of derogating, partly repealing, or lessening in value; disparagement; detraction; depreciation; -- followed by of, from, or to. I hope it
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• CONTRADICTIONAL
  Contradictory; inconsistent; opposing. Milton.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• SELF-CONTRADICTION
  The act of contradicting one's self or itself; repugnancy in conceptions or in terms; a proposition consisting of two members, one of which contradicts the other; as, to be and not to be at the same time is a self-contradiction.