Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: TIME-IST – TI-MOC'RA-CY
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TIME-IST, n.
In music, a performer who keeps good time. Busby.
TIME-KEEP-ER, n. [time and keeper.]
A clock, watch, or other chronometer.
TIME-KILL-ING, a.
Adapted to kill time.
TIME-LESS, a.
- Unseasonable; done at an improper time. Nor fits it to prolong the heav'nly feast / Timeless. [Not used.] Pope.
- Untimely; immature; done or suffered before the proper time; as, a timeless grave. [Not used.] Shak.
TIME-LESS-LY, adv.
Unseasonably. Milton.
TIME-LI-NESS, n. [from timely.]
Seasonableness; a being in good time.
TIME-LY, a.
- Seasonable; being in good time; sufficiently early. The defendant had timely notice of this motion. Timely care will often prevent great evils.
- Keeping time or measure. [Not used.] Spenser.
TIME-LY, adv.
Early; soon; in good season. Timely advis'd, the coming evil shun. Prior.
TIME-OUS-LY, a.
Seasonably; in good time. Watts.
TIME-PIECE, n. [time and piece.]
A clock, watch, or other instrument to measure or show the progress of time; a chronometer.
TIME-PLEAS-ER, n. [s as z. time and please.]
One who complies with the prevailing opinions, whatever they may be. Shak.
Sanctioned by long use. Channing.
TIME-SCORN'ER, n.
One who scorns time.
TIME-SERV-ER, n. [time and serve.]
One who adapts his opinions and manners to the times; one who obsequiously complies with the ruling power. Hall.
TIME-SERV-ING, a.
Obsequiously complying with the humors of men in power.
TIME-SERV-ING, n.
An obsequious compliance with the humors of men in power, which implies a surrender of one's independence, and sometimes of one's integrity.
TIME-WAST-ING, a.
Wasting time.
TIME-WORN, a.
Impaired by time. Irving.
TIM'ID, a. [Fr. timide; L. timidus, from timeo, to fear; Gaelic, tim, time, fear; Sp. temblar, to shake with fear; temer, to fear. The sense is probably to shake, or to fail, fall, recede, or shrink.]
Fearful; wanting courage to meet danger; timorous; not bold. Poor is the triumph o'er the timid hare. Thomson.
TIM-ID'I-TY, n. [Fr. timidité; L. timiditas.]
Fearfulness; want of courage or boldness to face danger; timorousness; habitual cowardice. Timidity in one person may be a good trait of character, while in another it is a deep reproach.
TIM'ID-LY, adv.
In a timid manner; weakly; without courage.
TIM'ID-NESS, n.
Timidity.
TIM'ING, ppr.
Adapting to the season or occasion.
TI'MIST, n. [See TIMEIST.]
TI-MOC'RA-CY, n. [Gr. τιμη, honor, worth, and κρατεω, to hold.]
Government by men of property, who are possessed of a certain income. Gillies' Aristotle.