Word Meanings - UNSECONDED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Not seconded; not supported, aided, or assisted; as, the motion was unseconded; the attempt was unseconded. 2. Not exemplified a second time. "Strange and unseconded shapes of worms." Sir T. Browne.

Related words: (words related to UNSECONDED)

• SECOND
  1. Immediately following the first; next to the first in order of place or time; hence, occuring again; another; other. And he slept and dreamed the second time. Gen. xli. 5. 2. Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity,
• ASSISTANTLY
  In a manner to give aid.
• SUPPORTABLE
  Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• WORMSEED
  Any one of several plants, as Artemisia santonica, and Chenopodium anthelminticum, whose seeds have the property of expelling worms from the stomach and intestines. Wormseed mustard, a slender, cruciferous plant having small lanceolate leaves.
• SUPPORTATION
  Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon.
• AIDANCE
  Aid. Aidance 'gainst the enemy. Shak.
• AIDFUL
  Helpful. Bp. Hall.
• ASSISTANCE
  1. The act of assisting; help; aid; furtherance; succor; support. Without the assistance of a mortal hand. Shak. 2. An assistant or helper; a body of helpers. Wat Tyler killed by valiant Walworth, the lord mayor of London, and his assistance,
• ASSIST
  To give support to in some undertaking or effort, or in time of distress; to help; to aid; to succor. Assist me, knight. I am undone! Shak. Syn. -- To help; aid; second; back; support; relieve; succor; befriend; sustain; favor. See Help.
• MOTIONER
  One who makes a motion; a mover. Udall.
• MOTIONIST
  A mover.
• SUPPORTFUL
  Abounding with support. Chapman.
• ASSISTER
  An assistant; a helper.
• SUPPORTLESS
  Having no support. Milton.
• ATTEMPTER
  1. One who attempts; one who essays anything. 2. An assailant; also, a temper.
• SECOND-CLASS
  Of the rank or degree below the best highest; inferior; second- rate; as, a second-class house; a second-class passage.
• AID-MAJOR
  The adjutant of a regiment.
• ASSISTLESS
  Without aid or help. Pope.
• AIDLESS
  Helpless; without aid. Milton.
• SECONDER
  One who seconds or supports what another attempts, affirms, moves, or proposes; as, the seconder of an enterprise or of a motion.
• HANDMAID; HANDMAIDEN
  A maid that waits at hand; a female servant or attendant.
• SPAID
  See SPADE
• ESTRANGE
  extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See 1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and
• DAYMAID
  A dairymaid.
• EXCITO-MOTION
  Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
• NERVIMOTION
  The movement caused in the sensory organs by external agents and transmitted to the muscles by the nerves. Dunglison.
• SAID
  imp. & p. p. of Say.
• MERMAID
  A fabled marine creature, typically represented as having the upper part like that of a woman, and the lower like a fish; a sea nymph, sea woman, or woman fish. Note: Chaucer uses this word as equivalent to the siren of the ancients. Mermaid fish
• FORESAID
  Mentioned before; aforesaid.