Word Meanings - SWARE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

imp. of Swear. Cophetua sware a royal oath. Tennyson.

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• ROYALIZE
  to make royal. Shak.
• SWEARER
  1. One who swears; one who calls God to witness for the truth of his declaration. 2. A profane person; one who uses profane language. Then the liars and swearers are fools. Shak.
• ROYALIZATION
  The act of making loyal to a king. Saintsbury.
• SWARE
  imp. of Swear. Cophetua sware a royal oath. Tennyson.
• ROYAL
  fr. L. regalis, fr. rex, regis, king. See Rich, and cf. regal, real a 1. Kingly; pertaining to the crown or the sovereign; suitable for a king or queen; regal; as, royal power or prerogative; royal domains; the royal family; royal state. 2. Noble;
• ROYALTY
  1. The state of being royal; the condition or quality of a royal person; kingship; kingly office; sovereignty. Royalty by birth was the sweetest way of majesty. Holyday. 2. The person of a king or sovereign; majesty; as, in the presence of royalty.
• ROYALIST
  An adherent of a king (as of Charles I. in England, or of the Bourbons in france); one attached to monarchical government. Where Ca'ndish fought, the Royalists prevailed. Waller.
• ROYALISM
  the principles or conduct of royalists.
• ROYALET
  A petty or powerless king. there were at this time two other royalets, as only kings by his leave. Fuller.
• TENNYSONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Alfred Tennyson, the English poet ; resembling, or having some of the characteristics of, his poetry, as simplicity, pictorial quality, sensuousness, etc.
• ROYALLY
  In a royal or kingly manner; like a king; as becomes a king. His body shall be royally interred. Dryden.
• SWEARING
  from Swear, v. Idle swearing is a cursedness. Chaucer.
• ROYAL SPADE
  A spade when spades are trumps under the condition that every trick over six taken by the successful bidder has a score value of 9; -- usually in pl.
• SWEAR
  To give evidence on oath; as, to swear to the truth of a statement; he swore against the prisoner. 3. To make an appeal to God in an irreverant manner; to use the name of God or sacred things profanely; to call upon God in imprecation; to curse.
• SUPERROYAL
  Larger than royal; -- said of a particular size of printing and writing paper. See the Note under Paper, n.
• MAINSWEAR
  To swear falsely. Blount.
• FORSWEARER
  One who rejects of renounces upon oath; one who swears a false oath.
• PENNYROYAL
  An aromatic herb of Europe; also, a North American plant resembling it in flavor. Bastard pennyroyal See Blue curls, under Blue. (more info) puliall is ultimately derived fr. L. puleium, or pulegium regium (so called as being good against
• MISWEAR
  To wear ill. Bacon.
• SURROYAL
  One of the terminal branches or divisions of the beam of the antler of the stag or other large deer.
• FORSWEAR
  1. To reject or renounce upon oath; hence, to renounce earnestly, determinedly, or with protestations. I . . . do forswear her. Shak. 2. To deny upon oath. Like innocence, and as serenely bold As truth, how loudly he forswears thy gold! Dryden.
• PORT-ROYALIST
  One of the dwellers in the Cistercian convent of Port Royal des Champs, near Paris, when it was the home of the Jansenists in the 17th century, among them being Arnauld, Pascal, and other famous scholars. Cf. Jansenist.
• MANSWEAR
  To swear falsely. Same as Mainswear.