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Word Meanings - UNSCALE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To divest of scales; to remove scales from. purging and unscaling her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance. Milton.

Related words: (words related to UNSCALE)

  • DIVESTITURE
    The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.
  • DIVESTMENT
    The act of divesting.
  • SIGHTLY
    1. Pleasing to the sight; comely. "Many brave, sightly horses." L'Estrange. 2. Open to sight; conspicuous; as, a house stands in a sightly place.
  • PURGATORY
    Tending to cleanse; cleansing; expiatory. Burke.
  • PURGATORIAL; PURGATORIAN
    Of or pertaining to purgatory; expiatory.
  • FOUNTAINLESS
    Having no fountain; destitute of springs or sources of water. Barren desert, fountainless and dry. Milton.
  • SIGHT-HOLE
    A hole for looking through; a peephole. "Stop all sight-holes." Shak.
  • ABUSIVELY
    In an abusive manner; rudely; with abusive language.
  • PURGER
    One who, or that which, purges or cleanses; especially, a cathartic medicine.
  • PURGATIVELY
    In a purgative manner.
  • SIGHTED
    Having sight, or seeing, in a particular manner; -- used in composition; as, long-sighted, short-sighted, quick-sighted, sharp- sighted, and the like.
  • HEAVENLY
    1. Pertaining to, resembling, or inhabiting heaven; celestial; not earthly; as, heavenly regions; heavenly music. As is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. 1 Cor. xv.
  • DIVESTURE
    Divestiture.
  • REMOVER
    One who removes; as, a remover of landmarks. Bacon.
  • SIGHTING
    from Sight, v. t. Sighting shot, a shot made to ascertain whether the sights of a firearm are properly adjusted; a trial shot.
  • DIVEST
    See W (more info) devestire. It is the same word as devest, but the latter is rarely 1. To unclothe; to strip, as of clothes, arms, or equipage; -- opposed to invest. 2. Fig.: To strip; to deprive; to dispossess;
  • PURGERY
    The part of a sugarhouse where the molasses is drained off from the sugar.
  • REMOVED
    1. Changed in place. 2. Dismissed from office. 3. Distant in location; remote. "Something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling." Shak. 4. Distant by degrees in relationship; as, a cousin once removed. -- Re*mov"ed*ness (r, n.
  • PURGAMENT
    A cathartic; a purgative. Bacon. (more info) 1. That which is excreted; excretion.
  • FOUNTAIN
    1. A spring of water issuing from the earth. 2. An artificially produced jet or stream of water; also, the structure or works in which such a jet or stream rises or flows; a basin built and constantly supplied with pure water for drinking and other
  • EXPURGATORIAL
    Tending or serving to expurgate; expurgatory. Milman.
  • PEEP SIGHT
    An adjustable piece, pierced with a small hole to peep through in aiming, attached to a rifle or other firearm near the breech; -- distinguished from an open sight.
  • EXPURGATOR
    One who expurgates or purifies.
  • HALF-SIGHTED
    Seeing imperfectly; having weak discernment. Bacon.
  • EXPURGATE
    To purify; to clear from anything noxious, offensive, or erroneous; to cleanse; to purge; as, to expurgate a book. (more info) purify; ex out, from + purgare to cleanse, purify, purge. See Purge,
  • INABUSIVELY
    Without abuse.
  • HIGH-SIGHTED
    Looking upward; supercilious. Shak.
  • COMPURGATION
    The act or practice of justifying or confirming a man's veracity by the oath of others; -- called also wager of law. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager. 2. Exculpation by testimony to one's veracity or innocence. He was privileged from
  • IRRADIANCE; IRRADIANCY
    1. The act of irradiating; emission of rays of light. 2. That which irradiates or is irradiated; luster; splendor; irradiation; brilliancy. Milton.
  • SUPERPURGATION
    Excessive purgation. Wiseman.
  • DULL-SIGHTED
    Having poor eyesight.
  • CLEAR-SIGHTEDNESS
    Acute discernment.

 

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