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Word Meanings - WARISON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Preparation; protection; provision; supply. 2. Reward; requital; guerdon. Wit and wisdom is good warysoun. Proverbs of Hending.

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  • GUERDONABLE
    Worthy of reward. Sir G. Buck.
  • REWARDFUL
    Yielding reward.
  • SUPPLYMENT
    A supplying or furnishing; supply. Shak.
  • SUPPLY
    LL. suppletare, from L. supplere, suppletum; sub under + plere to 1. To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an aqueduct supplies an artificial
  • WISDOM LITERATURE
    The class of ancient Hebrew writings which deal reflectively with general ethical and religious topics, as distinguished from the prophetic and liturgical literature, and from the law. It is comprised chiefly in the books of Job, Proverbs,
  • PROVISIONARY
    Provisional. Burke.
  • PROVISIONAL
    Of the nature of a provision; serving as a provision for the time being; -- used of partial or temporary arrangements; as, a provisional government; a provisional treaty.
  • HENDY
    See HENDE
  • HENDECATOIC
    Undecylic; pertaining to, or derived from, hendecane; as, hendecatoic acid.
  • REWARDLESS
    Having, or affording, no reward.
  • REWARD
    To give in return, whether good or evil; -- commonly in a good sense; to requite; to recompense; to repay; to compensate. After the deed that is done, one doom shall reward, Mercy or no mercy as truth will accord. Piers Plowman. Thou hast rewarded
  • PROTECTIONIST
    One who favors protection. See Protection, 4.
  • SUPPLYANT
    Supplying or aiding; auxiliary; suppletory. Shak.
  • PROVISION
    A canonical term for regular induction into a benefice, comprehending nomination, collation, and installation. (more info) 1. The act of providing, or making previous preparation. Shak. 2. That which is provided or prepared; that which is brought
  • HENDECANE
    A hydrocarbon, C11H24, of the paraffin series; -- so called because it has eleven atoms of carbon in each molecule. Called also endecane, undecane.
  • HENDECASYLLABLE
    A metrical line of eleven syllables. J. Warton.
  • WISDOM
    1. The quality of being wise; knowledge, and the capacity to make due use of it; knowledge of the best ends and the best means; discernment and judgment; discretion; sagacity; skill; dexterity. We speak also not in wise words of man's wisdom, but
  • GUERDONLESS
    Without reward or guerdon.
  • HENDIADYS
    A figure in which the idea is expressed by two nouns connected by and, instead of by a noun and limiting adjective; as, we drink from cups and gold, for golden cups.
  • PROTECTIONISM
    The doctrine or policy of protectionists. See Protection, 4.
  • SHENDFUL
    Destructive; ruinous; disgraceful. -- Shend"ful*ly, adv. Fabyan.
  • SHEND
    disgrace, dishonor, shame; akin to G. schande, Goth. skanda. See 1. To injure, mar, spoil, or harm. "Loss of time shendeth us." Chaucer. I fear my body will be shent. Dryden. 2. To blame, reproach, or revile; to degrade, disgrace, or
  • IMPREPARATION
    Want of preparation. Hooker.
  • UNCOMPREHEND
    To fail to comprehend. Daniel.
  • SHOREWARD
    Toward the shore.
  • PREHEND
    To lay hold of; to seize. Middleton.
  • FORHEND
    To seize upon.
  • APPREHEND
    of, seize; prae before + -hendere ; akin to Gr. 1. To take or seize; to take hold of. We have two hands to apprehended it. Jer. Taylor. 2. Hence: To take or seize by legal process; to arrest; as, to apprehend a criminal. 3. To take hold of with
  • UNWISDOM
    Want of wisdom; unwise conduct or action; folly; simplicity; ignorance. Sumptuary laws are among the exploded fallacies which we have outgrown, and we smile at the unwisdom which could except to regulate private habits and manners by statute. J.
  • REPREHENDER
    One who reprehends.
  • RESUPPLY
    To supply again.

 

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