Word Meanings - PRETERIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who believes the prophecies of the Apocalypse to have been already fulfilled. Farrar. (more info) 1. One whose chief interest is in the past; one who regards the past with most pleasure or favor.

Related words: (words related to PRETERIST)

• WHOSESOEVER
  The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever.
• CHIEFLESS
  Without a chief or leader.
• FAVOR
  Partiality; bias. Bouvier. 9. A letter or epistle; -- so called in civility or compliment; as, your favor of yesterday is received. 10. pl. (more info) L. favor, fr. favere to be favorable, cf. Skr. bhavaya to further, foster, causative of bhBe.
• APOCALYPSE
  1. The revelation delivered to St. John, in the isle of Patmos, near the close of the first century, forming the last book of the New Testament. 2. Anything viewed as a revelation; as disclosure. The new apocalypse of Nature. Carlyle.
• FAVORITE
  Short curls dangling over the temples; -- fashionable in the reign of Charles II. Farquhar. (more info) p.p. of OF. favorir, cf. It. favorito, frm. favorita, fr. favorire to 1. A person or thing regarded with peculiar favor; one treated with
• CHIEFEST
  First or foremost; chief; principal. "Our chiefest courtier." Shak. The chiefest among ten thousand. Canticles v. 10.
• FAVORABLE
  1. Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious; friendly. Lend favorable ears to our request. Shak. Lord, thou hast been favorable unto thy land. Ps. lxxxv. 1. 2. Conducive; contributing; tending to promote or facilitate;
• INTERESTED
  1. Having the attention engaged; having emotion or passion excited; as, an interested listener. 2. Having an interest; concerned in a cause or in consequences; liable to be affected or prejudiced; as, an interested witness.
• FAVOREDNESS
  Appearance.
• ALREADY
  Prior to some specified time, either past, present, or future; by this time; previously. "Joseph was in Egypt already." Exod. i. 5. I say unto you, that Elias is come already. Matt. xvii. 12. Note: It has reference to past time, but may be used
• INTERESTINGNESS
  The condition or quality of being interesting. A. Smith.
• PLEASURER
  A pleasure seeker. Dickens.
• CHIEF JUSTICE
  The presiding justice, or principal judge, of a court. Lord Chief Justice of England, The presiding judge of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice. The highest judicial officer of the realm is the Lord High Chancellor. -- Chief
• CHIEF HARE
  A small rodent inhabiting the summits of the Rocky Mountains; -- also called crying hare, calling hare, cony, American pika, and little chief hare. Note: It is not a true hare or rabbit, but belongs to the curious family Lagomyidæ.
• FULFILLER
  One who fulfills. South.
• FAVORED
  1. Countenanced; aided; regarded with kidness; as, a favored friend. 2. Having a certain favor or appearance; featured; as, well-favored; hard-favored, etc.
• FAVORER
  One who favors; one who regards with kindness or friendship; a well-wisher; one who assists or promotes success or prosperity. And come to us as favorers, not as foes. Shak.
• PLEASURELESS
  Devoid of pleasure. G. Eliot.
• FAVORITISM
  The disposition to favor and promote the interest of one person or family, or of one class of men, to the neglect of others having equal claims; partiality. A spirit of favoritism to the Bank of the United States. A. Hamilton.
• DISINTERESTING
  Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton.
• UNINTERESTED
  1. Not interested; not having any interest or property in; having nothing at stake; as, to be uninterested in any business. 2. Not having the mind or the passions engaged; as, uninterested in a discourse or narration.
• KERCHIEF
  couvrechef, F. couvrechef, a head covering, fr. couvrir to cover + 1. A square of fine linen worn by women as a covering for the head; hence, anything similar in form or material, worn for ornament on other parts of the person; -- mostly used in
• MISCHIEF
  + chief end, head, F. chef chief. See Minus, and 1. Harm; damage; esp., disarrangement of order; trouble or vexation caused by human agency or by some living being, intentionally or not; often, calamity, mishap; trivial evil caused by
• ENKERCHIEFED
  Bound with a kerchief; draped; hooded; covered. Milton. That soft, enkerchiefed hair. M. Arnold.
• UNFAVORABLE
  Not favorable; not propitious; adverse; contrary; discouraging. -- Un*fa"vor*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*fa"vor*a*bly, adv.
• NECKERCHIEF
  A kerchief for the neck; -- called also neck handkerchief.
• DISFAVORABLY
  Unpropitiously.
• SELF-INTERESTED
  Particularly concerned for one's own interest or happiness.