All English words - page 108

Meanings of Advisory:

adjective

Having or consisting in the power to make recommendations but not to take action enforcing them.

Usage examples:

The commission acts in an advisory capacity

noun

An official announcement or warning.

Usage examples:

A frost advisory

Meanings of Advocaat:

noun

A liqueur made with eggs, sugar, and brandy.

Usage examples:

So i asked for the only drink i knew: advocaat and cherry brandy.

Meanings of Advocacy:

noun

Public support for or recommendation of a particular cause or policy.

Usage examples:

His outspoken advocacy of the agreement has won no friends

Meanings of Advocate:

noun

A person who publicly supports or recommends a particular cause or policy.

Usage examples:

He was an untiring advocate of economic reform

verb

Publicly recommend or support.

Usage examples:

Voters supported candidates who advocated an assembly

Meanings of Advocated:

verb

Publicly recommend or support.

Usage examples:

Voters supported candidates who advocated an assembly

noun

A person who publicly supports or recommends a particular cause or policy.

Usage examples:

He was an untiring advocate of economic reform

Meanings of Advocates:

noun

A person who publicly supports or recommends a particular cause or policy.

Usage examples:

He was an untiring advocate of economic reform

verb

Publicly recommend or support.

Usage examples:

Voters supported candidates who advocated an assembly

Meanings of Advocatess:

noun

A female advocate. in early use specifically (christian church): the virgin mary.

Meanings of Advocating:

verb

Publicly recommend or support.

Usage examples:

Voters supported candidates who advocated an assembly

noun

A person who publicly supports or recommends a particular cause or policy.

Usage examples:

He was an untiring advocate of economic reform

Meanings of Advocatory:

adjective

Of or relating to an advocate; of the nature of or characterized by advocacy.

Meanings of Advocatrix:

noun

A female advocate; specifically (christian church) the virgin mary.

Meanings of Advoke:

verb

To summon (a legal action) from a lower court to a higher court, especially the papal court of rome. compare "advocate", "advocation".

Meanings of Advolution:

noun

The process of developing in a specific direction or towards a particular end; an instance of this.

Meanings of Advowee:

noun

A guardian, protector, or patron of a church or religious house; (ecclesiastical law) one holding the right to present a member of the clergy to a particular benefice or living. compare "advowson". now chiefly historical.

Meanings of Advowry:

noun

(a) ecclesiastical law. = "advowson"; the office or function of an advowee. (b) = "avowry"; (also) a person responsible for providing this protection (or perhaps: the payments made to ensure this).

Meanings of Advowson:

noun

(in ecclesiastical law) the right to recommend a member of the anglican clergy for a vacant benefice, or to make such an appointment.

Usage examples:

The prestige of the gentry remained high, since they often owned the advowson and had a cousin or a…

Meanings of Advowsons:

noun

(in ecclesiastical law) the right to recommend a member of the anglican clergy for a vacant benefice, or to make such an appointment.

Usage examples:

The prestige of the gentry remained high, since they often owned the advowson and had a cousin or a…

Meanings of Advt:

noun

(as written abbreviation) an advertisement.

Usage examples:

In case the advt is not accepted, the payment made by the advertiser will be refunded

Meanings of Adynamia:

noun

Originally: severe physical weakness; prostration; debility.

Meanings of Adynamias:

noun

Originally: severe physical weakness; prostration; debility.

Meanings of Adynamic:

adjective

Originally: resulting in or characterized by weakness or debility; specifically designating fevers, especially typhus and typhoid, which have a marked debilitating effect (now rare). in later use: specifically exhibiting, characterized by, or resulting from reduced or absent muscular contraction.

Meanings of Adynamy:

noun

= adynamia .

Meanings of Adyta:

noun

The innermost sanctuary of an ancient greek temple.

Usage examples:

In the adytum was generally to be found a tomb or sacred images.

Meanings of Adytum:

noun

The innermost sanctuary of an ancient greek temple.

Usage examples:

In the adytum was generally to be found a tomb or sacred images.

Meanings of Adz:

noun

A tool similar to an axe, with an arched blade at right angles to the handle, used for cutting or shaping large pieces of wood.

Usage examples:

Tools consist now of bone, wood and stone, made up as an adze, knife blade, borer, arrow or spearhe…

verb

Cut away the surface of (a piece of wood) with an adze.

Usage examples:

By the time it has been adzed out, you will only have a small edge to clean up

Meanings of Adze:

noun

A tool similar to an axe, with an arched blade at right angles to the handle, used for cutting or shaping large pieces of wood.

Usage examples:

Tools consist now of bone, wood and stone, made up as an adze, knife blade, borer, arrow or spearhe…

verb

Cut away the surface of (a piece of wood) with an adze.

Usage examples:

By the time it has been adzed out, you will only have a small edge to clean up