Words that rhyme with sortilege

v 1: declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of; "He admitted his errors"; "She acknowledged that she might have forgotten" [syn: admit, acknowledge] [ant: deny] 2: report the receipt of; "The program committee acknowledged the submission of the authors of the paper" [syn: acknowledge, receipt] 3: express recognition of the presence or existence of, or acquaintance with; "He never acknowledges his colleagues when they run into him in the hallway"; "She acknowledged his complement with a smile"; "it is important to acknowledge the work of others in one's own writing" [syn: notice, acknowledge] 4: express obligation, thanks, or gratitude for; "We must acknowledge the kindness she showed towards us" [syn: acknowledge, recognize, recognise] 5: accept as legally binding and valid; "acknowledge the deed" 6: accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority; "The Crown Prince was acknowledged as the true heir to the throne"; "We do not recognize your gods" [syn: acknowledge, recognize, recognise, know]

n 1: tough elastic tissue; mostly converted to bone in adults [syn: cartilage, gristle]

n 1: the body of faculty and students of a college 2: an institution of higher education created to educate and grant degrees; often a part of a university 3: a complex of buildings in which an institution of higher education is housed

n 1: fodder harvested while green and kept succulent by partial fermentation as in a silo [syn: silage, ensilage]

n 1: knowledge of an event before it occurs [syn: precognition, foreknowledge]

n 1: the central body of an airplane that is designed to accommodate the crew and passengers (or cargo)

n 1: the act of drawing or hauling something; "the haul up the hill went very slowly" [syn: draw, haul, haulage]

n 1: the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning [syn: cognition, knowledge, noesis]

n 1: distance measured in miles [syn: mileage, milage] 2: the ratio of the number of miles traveled to the number of gallons of gasoline burned [syn: mileage, fuel consumption rate, gasoline mileage, gas mileage] 3: a travel allowance at a given rate per mile traveled

n 1: a gelatinous substance secreted by plants 2: cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive [syn: glue, gum, mucilage]

n 1: growth of hair or wool or fur covering the body of an animal [syn: coat, pelage]

n 1: goods or money obtained illegally [syn: loot, booty, pillage, plunder, prize, swag, dirty money] 2: the act of stealing valuable things from a place; "the plundering of the Parthenon"; "his plundering of the great authors" [syn: plundering, pillage, pillaging] v 1: steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners" [syn: plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray]

n 1: a special advantage or immunity or benefit not enjoyed by all 2: a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right); "suffrage was the prerogative of white adult males" [syn: prerogative, privilege, perquisite, exclusive right] 3: (law) the right to refuse to divulge information obtained in a confidential relationship v 1: bestow a privilege upon [syn: privilege, favor, favour]

n 1: blasphemous behavior; the act of depriving something of its sacred character; "desecration of the Holy Sabbath" [syn: profanation, desecration, blasphemy, sacrilege]

n 1: fodder harvested while green and kept succulent by partial fermentation as in a silo [syn: silage, ensilage]

n 1: the amount that has spilled 2: the act of allowing a fluid to escape [syn: spill, spillage, release]

n 1: the amount that has spoiled 2: the process of becoming spoiled [syn: spoilage, spoiling] 3: the act of spoiling something by causing damage to it; "her spoiling my dress was deliberate" [syn: spoil, spoiling, spoilage]

n 1: arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops [syn: cultivated land, farmland, plowland, ploughland, tilled land, tillage, tilth] 2: the cultivation of soil for raising crops

n 1: teaching pupils individually (usually by a tutor hired privately) [syn: tutelage, tuition, tutorship] 2: attention and management implying responsibility for safety; "he is in the care of a bodyguard" [syn: care, charge, tutelage, guardianship]

n 1: the state of a serf [syn: serfdom, serfhood, vassalage]

n 1: a community of people smaller than a town [syn: village, small town, settlement] 2: a settlement smaller than a town [syn: village, hamlet] 3: a mainly residential district of Manhattan; `the Village' became a home for many writers and artists in the 20th century [syn: Greenwich Village, Village]

n 1: United States jurist and second chief justice of the United States Supreme Court; he was appointed by George Washington and briefly served as chief justice but was ultimately rejected by the United States Senate (1739-1800) [syn: Rutledge, John Rutledge]