Word Meanings - WIFE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

wif, D. wijf, G. weib, OHG. wib, Icel. vif, Dan. viv; and perhaps to Skr. vip excited, agitated, inspired, vip to tremble, L. vibrare to vibrate, E. vibrate. Cf. Tacitus, : Inesse quin etiam sanctum aliquid et providum putant, nec aut consilia

Additional info about word: WIFE

wif, D. wijf, G. weib, OHG. wib, Icel. vif, Dan. viv; and perhaps to Skr. vip excited, agitated, inspired, vip to tremble, L. vibrare to vibrate, E. vibrate. Cf. Tacitus, : Inesse quin etiam sanctum aliquid et providum putant, nec aut consilia earum 1. A woman; an adult female; -- now used in literature only in certain compounds and phrases, as alewife, fishwife, goodwife, and the like. " Both men and wives." Piers Plowman. On the green he saw sitting a wife. Chaucer. 2. The lawful consort of a man; a woman who is united to a man in wedlock; a woman who has a husband; a married woman; -- correlative of husband. " The husband of one wife." 1 Tin. iii. 2. Let every one you . . . so love his wife even as himself, and the wife see that she reverence her husband. Eph. v. 33. To give to wife, To take to wife, to give or take in marriage. -- Wife's equity , the equitable right or claim of a married woman to a reasonable and adequate provision, by way of settlement or otherwise, out of her choses in action, or out of any property of hers which is under the jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery, for the support of herself and her children. Burrill.

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• AGITATO
  Sung or played in a restless, hurried, and spasmodic manner.
• EXCITO-MOTION
  Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
• AGITATION
  1. The act of agitating, or the state of being agitated; the state of being moved with violence, or with irregular action; commotion; as, the sea after a storm is in agitation. 2. A stirring up or arousing; disturbance of tranquillity; disturbance
• AGITATE
  1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper. 2. To move or actuate. Thomson. 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly
• EXCITABLE
  Capable of being excited, or roused into action; susceptible of excitement; easily stirred up, or stimulated.
• EXCITING
  Calling or rousing into action; producing excitement; as, exciting events; an exciting story. -- Ex*cit"ing*ly, adv. Exciting causes , those which immediately produce disease, or those which excite the action of predisposing causes.
• EXCITATION
  The act of producing excitement ; also, the excitement produced. (more info) 1. The act of exciting or putting in motion; the act of rousing up or awakening. Bacon.
• EXCITABILITY
  The property manifested by living organisms, and the elements and tissues of which they are constituted, of responding to the action of stimulants; irritability; as, nervous excitability. (more info) 1. The quality of being readily excited;
• INSPIRING
  Animating; cheering; moving; exhilarating; as, an inspiring or scene.
• INSPIRATOR
  A kind of injector for forcing water by steam. See Injector, n., 2.
• EXCITATOR
  A kind of discarder.
• VIBRATE
  brandish, vibrate; akin to Skr. vip to tremble, Icel. veifa to wave, 1. To brandish; to move to and fro; to swing; as, to vibrate a sword or a staff. 2. To mark or measure by moving to and fro; as, a pendulum vibrating seconds. 3. To affect with
• EXCITATE
  To excite. Bacon.
• INSPIRED
  1. Breathed in; inhaled. 2. Moved or animated by, or as by, a supernatural influence; affected by divine inspiration; as, the inspired prophets; the inspired writers. 3. Communicated or given as by supernatural or divine inspiration; having divine
• TREMBLE
  1. To shake involuntarily, as with fear, cold, or weakness; to quake; to quiver; to shiver; to shudder; -- said of a person or an animal. I tremble still with fear. Shak. Frighted Turnus trembled as he spoke. Dryden. 2. To totter; to shake; --
• EXCITEFUL
  Full of exciting qualities; as, an exciteful story; exciteful players. Chapman.
• INSPIRATIONIST
  One who holds to inspiration.
• EXCITO-NUTRIENT
  Exciting nutrition; said of the reflex influence by which the nutritional processes are either excited or modified.
• EXCITO-SECRETORY
  Exciting secretion; -- said of the influence exerted by reflex action on the function of secretion, by which the various glands are excited to action.
• INSPIRATION
  A supernatural divine influence on the prophets, apostles, or sacred writers, by which they were qualified to communicate moral or religious truth with authority; a supernatural influence which qualifies men to receive and communicate divine truth;
• EFFLAGITATE
  To ask urgently. Cockeram.
• FINESSE
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• OVERAGITATE
  To agitate or discuss beyond what is expedient. Bp. Hall.