Word Meanings - QUOTHA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Indeed; forsooth. To affront the blessed hillside drabs and thieves With mended morals, quotha, -- fine new lives ! Mrs. Browning.

Related words: (words related to QUOTHA)

• INDECOMPOSABLENESS
  Incapableness of decomposition; stability; permanence; durability.
• INDECOROUSNESS
  The quality of being indecorous; want of decorum.
• INDESERT
  Ill desert. Addison.
• INDEVOTE
  Not devoted. Bentley. Clarendon.
• INDECENCY
  1. The quality or state of being indecent; want of decency, modesty, or good manners; obscenity. 2. That which is indecent; an indecent word or act; an offense against delicacy. They who, by speech or writing, present to the ear or the
• INDEXICAL
  Of, pertaining to, or like, an index; having the form of an index.
• HILLSIDE
  The side or declivity of a hill.
• INDEFICIENCY
  The state or quality of not being deficient. Strype.
• INDEFATIGABLY
  Without weariness; without yielding to fatigue; persistently. Dryden.
• BROWNBACK
  The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.
• INDEBT
  To bring into debt; to place under obligation; -- chiefly used in the participle indebted. Thy fortune hath indebted thee to none. Daniel.
• MENDICITY
  The practice of begging; the life of a beggar; mendicancy. Rom. of R.
• INDEFECTIBLE
  Not defectible; unfailing; not liable to defect, failure, or decay. An indefectible treasure in the heavens. Barrow. A state of indefectible virtue and happiness. S. Clarke.
• MENDICANT
  Practicing beggary; begging; living on alms; as, mendicant friars. Mendicant orders , certain monastic orders which are forbidden to acquire landed property and are required to be supported by alms, esp. the Franciscans, the Dominicans,
• INDEPENDENCY
  Doctrine and polity of the Independents. (more info) 1. Independence. "Give me," I cried , "My bread, and independency!" Pope.
• INDEMNITY
  1. Security; insurance; exemption from loss or damage, past or to come; immunity from penalty, or the punishment of past offenses; amnesty. Having first obtained a promise of indemnity for the riot they had committed. Sir W. Scott. 2.
• INDEFEASIBLE
  Not to be defeated; not defeasible; incapable of being annulled or made void; as, an indefeasible or title. That the king had a divine and an indefeasible right to the regal power. Macaulay.
• BLESSING
  A gift. Gen. xxxiii. 11. 5. Grateful praise or worship. (more info) 1. The act of one who blesses. 2. A declaration of divine favor, or an invocation imploring divine favor on some or something; a benediction; a wish of happiness pronounces.
• INDETERMINABLE
  Not determinable; impossible to be determined; not to be definitely known, ascertained, defined, or limited. -- In`de*ter"mi*na*bly, adv.
• INDECOROUS
  Not decorous; violating good manners; contrary to good breeding or etiquette; unbecoming; improper; out of place; as, indecorous conduct. It was useless and indecorous to attempt anything more by mere struggle. Burke. Syn. -- Unbecoming; unseemly;
• COMMENDATOR
  One who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary. Chalmers.
• AMENDFUL
  Much improving.
• CURBLESS
  Having no curb or restraint.
• EARTHLY-MINDED
  Having a mind devoted to earthly things; worldly-minded; -- opposed to spiritual-minded. -- Earth"ly-mind`ed*ness, n.
• EVENMINDED
  Having equanimity.
• CONSTABLESS
  The wife of a constable.
• CARNAL-MINDEDNESS
  Grossness of mind.
• COMMENDER
  One who commends or praises.
• REMINDER
  One who, or that which, reminds; that which serves to awaken remembrance.