Word Meanings - BENTINGTIME - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The season when pigeons are said to feed on bents, before peas are ripe. Bare benting times . . . may come. Dryden.

• Seasonable
  Occurring in good time, in due season, or in proper time for the purpose; suitable to the season; opportune; timely; as, a seasonable supply of rain.
• Seasonage
  A seasoning.
• Beforehand
  In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with.
• Beforetime
  Formerly; aforetime.
• Seasonless
  Without succession of the seasons.
• Bent grass
  Same as Bent, a kind of grass.
• Timesaving
  Saving time; as, a timesaving expedient.
• Timeserver
  One who adapts his opinions and manners to the times; one who obsequiously compiles with the ruling power; -- now used only in a bad sense.
• Benthamic
  Of or pertaining to Bentham or Benthamism.
• Timeserving
  Obsequiously complying with the spirit of the times, or the humors of those in power.
• Benthamism
  That phase of the doctrine of utilitarianism taught by Jeremy Bentham; the doctrine that the morality of actions is estimated and determined by their utility; also, the theory that the sensibility to pleasure and the recoil from pain are the only
• BENTGRASS
  Same as Bent, a kind of grass.
• Benthamite
  One who believes in Benthamism.

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