Word Meanings - SIGILLARIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Little images or figures of earthenware exposed for sale, or given as presents, on the last two days of the Saturnalia; hence, the last two, or the sixth and seventh, days of the Saturnalia.

• Expostulation
  The act of expostulating or reasoning with a person in opposition to some impropriety of conduct; remonstrance; earnest and kindly protest; dissuasion.
• Expostulator
  One who expostulates.
• Earthenware
  Vessels and other utensils, ornaments, or the like, made of baked clay. See Crockery, Pottery, Stoneware, and Porcelain.
• Expostulatory
  Containing expostulation or remonstrance; as, an expostulatory discourse or letter.
• EXPOSTFACTOEXPOSTFACTO
  From or by an after act, or thing done afterward; in consequence of a subsequent act; retrospective. Ex post facto law, a law which operates by after enactment. The phrase is popularly applied to any law, civil or criminal, which is enacted with a retr
• Exposture
  Exposure.
• LITTLEEASE
  An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison.[Eng.] Latimer.
• SEVENTHIRTIES
  A name given to three several issues of United States Treasury notes, made during the Civil War, in denominations of and over, bearing interest at the rate of seven and three tenths (thirty hundredths) per cent annually. Within a few years they were
• Exposedness
  The state of being exposed, laid open, or unprotected; as, an exposedness to sin or temptation.
• Henceforth
  From this time forward; henceforward.

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