Word Meanings - ADMITTATUR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The certificate of admission given in some American colleges.

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• AMERICANIZATION
  The process of Americanizing.
• AMERICAN
  1. Of or pertaining to America; as, the American continent: American Indians. 2. Of or pertaining to the United States. "A young officer of the American navy." Lyell. American ivy. See Virginia creeper. -- American Party , a party, about 1854,
• AMERICANISM
  1. Attachment to the United States. 2. A custom peculiar to the United States or to America; an American characteristic or idea. 3. A word or phrase peculiar to the United States.
• AMERICAN PLAN
  In hotels, aplan upon which guests pay for both room and board by the day, week, or other convenient period; -- contrasted with European plan.
• ADMISSION
  Acquiescence or concurrence in a statement made by another, and distinguishable from a confession in that an admission presupposes prior inquiry by another, but a confession may be made without such inquiry. 5. A fact, point, or statement admitted;
• CERTIFICATE
  1. A written testimony to the truth of any fact; as, certificate of good behavior. 2. A written declaration legally authenticated. Trial by certificate, a trial which the testimony of the person certifying is the only proper criterion of the point
• AMERICANIZE
  To render American; to assimilate to the Americans in customs, ideas, etc.; to stamp with American characteristics.
• GIVEN
  p. p. & a. from Give, v.
• AMERICAN PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION
  A secret organization in the United States, formed in Iowa in 1887, ostensibly for the protection of American institutions by keeping Roman Catholics out of public office. Abbrev. commonly to A.
• RECEIVER'S CERTIFICATE
  An acknowledgement of indebtedness made by a receiver under order of court to obtain funds for the preservation of the assets held by him, as for operating a railroad. Receivers' certificates are ordinarily a first lien on the assets, prior to that
• NONADMISSION
  Failure to be admitted.
• ANTI-AMERICAN
  Opposed to the Americans, their aims, or interests, or to the genius of American institutions. Marshall.
• SILVER CERTIFICATE
  A certificate issued by a government that there has been deposited with it silver to a specified amount, payable to the bearer on demand. In the United States and its possessions, it is issued against the deposit of silver coin, and is not legal
• PAN-AMERICAN
  Of or pertaining to both North and South America.
• PREADMISSION
  Lit., previous admission; specif. ,
• FORGIVENESS
  1. The act of forgiving; the state of being forgiven; as, the forgiveness of sin or of injuries. To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses. Dan. ix. 9. In whom we have . . . the forgiveness of sin. Eph. i. 7. 2. Disposition to pardon;
• PAN-AMERICAN CONGRESS
  various American states; esp.: One held in 1889-90 in the United States, at which all the independent states except Santo Domingo were represented and of which the practical result was the establishment of the Bureau of American Republics for the
• TAX CERTIFICATE
  The certificate issued to the purchaser of land at a tax sale certifying to the sale and the payment of the consideration thereof, and entitling the purchaser upon certain conditions and at a certain time thereafter to a deed or instrument
• PAN-AMERICANISM
  The principle or advocacy of a political alliance or union of all the states of America.
• READMISSION
  The act of admitting again, or the state of being readmitted; as, the readmission fresh air into an exhausted receiver; the readmission of a student into a seminary.