Word Meanings - BASTILEBASTILLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A tower or an elevated work, used for the defense, or in the siege, of a fortified place. The high bastiles . . . which overtopped the walls. Holland. 2. "The Bastille", formerly a castle or fortress in Paris, used as a prison, especially for political offenders; hence, a rhetorical name for a prison.

• Placebo
  The first antiphon of the vespers for the dead.
• Place-proud
  Proud of rank or office.
• towering
  of Tower
• Elevation
  The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; -- said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc.; as, the elevation of grain; elevation to a throne; elevation of mind, thoughts, or character.
• Hollandish
  Relating to Holland; Dutch.
• Hollands
  Gin made in Holland.
• Placeful
  In the appointed place.
• Elevator
  One who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything
• Overtopped
  of Overtop
• Placeless
  Having no place or office.
• Elevatory
  Tending to raise, or having power to elevate; as, elevatory forces.
• Overtopping
  of Overtop
• Placemen
  of Placeman
• Political
  Having, or conforming to, a settled system of administration.
• Whichever
  Alt. of Whichsoever

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