Word Meanings - VELITATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A dispute or contest; a slight contest; a skirmish. Sir M. Hale. After a short velitation we parted. Evelyn.

Related words: (words related to VELITATION)

• SLIGHTNESS
  The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
• AFTERCAST
  A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late. Gower.
• PARTHIAN
  Of or pertaining to ancient Parthia, in Asia. -- n.
• AFTER
  To ward the stern of the ship; -- applied to any object in the rear part of a vessel; as the after cabin, after hatchway. Note: It is often combined with its noun; as, after-bowlines, after- braces, after-sails, after-yards, those on the mainmasts
• PARTICIPIALIZE
  To form into, or put in the form of, a participle.
• PARTY
  1. A part or portion. "The most party of the time." Chaucer. 2. A number of persons united in opinion or action, as distinguished from, or opposed to, the rest of a community or association; esp., one of the parts into which a people is divided
• PARTICIPANT
  Sharing; participating; having a share of part. Bacon.
• AFTERPAINS
  The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth.
• SHORT-WITED
  Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
• SKIRMISH
  To fight slightly or in small parties; to engage in a skirmish or skirmishes; to act as skirmishers. (more info) eskermir, to fence, fight, F. escrimer, of German origin; cf. OHG. scirmen to protect, defend, G. schirmen, OHG. scirm, scerm,
• SLIGHTEN
  To slight. B. Jonson.
• PARTLY
  In part; in some measure of degree; not wholly. "I partly believe it." 1 Cor. xi. 18.
• PARTNER
  An associate in any business or occupation; a member of a partnership. See Partnership. 3. pl. (more info) 1. One who has a part in anything with an other; a partaker; an associate; a sharer. "Partner of his fortune." Shak. Hence: A husband or
• SLIGHTINGLY
  In a slighting manner.
• CONTESTABLE
  Capable of being contested; debatable.
• PARTITE
  Divided nearly to the base; as, a partite leaf is a simple separated down nearly to the base.
• SHORT CIRCUIT
  A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.
• PARTIALISM
  Partiality; specifically , the doctrine of the Partialists.
• PARTURIFACIENT
  A medicine tending to cause parturition, or to give relief in childbearing. Dunglison.
• SHORT-HANDED
  Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers.
• RAMPART
  A broad embankment of earth round a place, upon which the parapet is raised. It forms the substratum of every permanent fortification. Mahan. Syn. -- Bulwark; fence; security; guard. -- Rampart, Bulwark. These words were formerly interchanged; but
• TRIPARTIBLE
  Divisible into three parts.
• SELF-IMPARTING
  Imparting by one's own, or by its own, powers and will. Norris.
• POURPARTY
  A division; a divided share. To make pourparty, to divide and apportion lands previously held in common.
• COUNTERPART
  One of two corresponding copies of an instrument; a duplicate. 3. A person who closely resembles another. 4. A thing may be applied to another thing so as to fit perfectly, as a seal to its impression; hence, a thing which is adapted to another
• DEPARTURE
  The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another. Bouvier. (more info) 1. Division; separation; putting away. No other remedy . . . but absolute departure. Milton.