Word Meanings - JUDGEMADE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Created by judges or judicial decision; -- applied esp. to law applied or established by the judicial interpretation of statutes so as extend or restrict their scope, as to meet new cases, to provide new or better remedies, etc., and often used opprobriously of acts of judicial interpretation considered as doing this. The law of the 13th century was judge-made law in a fuller and more literal sense than the law of any succeeding century has been. Sir Frederick Pollock.

• Dodecagynia
  A Linnaean order of plants having twelve styles.
• Doughy
  Like dough; soft and heavy; pasty; crude; flabby and pale; as, a doughy complexion.
• Dolichocephaly
  Alt. of Dolichocephalism
• Judgeship
  The office of a judge.
• Donship
  The quality or rank of a don, gentleman, or knight.
• DOUBLEEYED
  Having a deceitful look. [R.] "Deceitful meanings is double- eyed." Spenser.
• Applique
  Ornamented with a pattern (which has been cut out of another color or stuff) applied or transferred to a foundation; as, applique lace; applique work.
• Dodger
  One who dodges or evades; one who plays fast and loose, or uses tricky devices.
• Dovekie
  A guillemot (Uria grylle), of the arctic regions. Also applied to the little auk or sea dove. See under Dove.
• Dolomitic
  Pertaining to dolomite.
• Oftensith
  Frequently; often.
• Doomsman
  A judge; an umpire.
• DOUGHKNEADED
  Like dough; soft. He demeans himself . . . like a dough-kneaded thing. Milton.
• Considerate
  Given to consideration or to sober reflection; regardful of consequences or circumstances; circumspect; careful; esp. careful of the rights, claims, and feelings of other.
• Doff
  To put off, as dress; to divest one's self of; hence, figuratively, to put or thrust away; to rid one's self of.
• Dowdy
  Showing a vulgar taste in dress; awkward and slovenly in dress; vulgar-looking.
• Domableness
  Tamableness.
• Restriction
  The act of restricting, or state of being restricted; confinement within limits or bounds.
• Doorstop
  The block or strip of wood or similar material which stops, at the right place, the shutting of a door.
• Creationism
  The doctrine that a soul is specially created for each human being as soon as it is formed in the womb; -- opposed to traducianism.

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