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Word Meanings - ALDERMANSHIP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The condition, position, or office of an alderman. Fabyan.

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  • OFFICEHOLDER
    An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
  • CONDITIONALITY
    The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms.
  • ALDERMANSHIP
    The condition, position, or office of an alderman. Fabyan.
  • CONDITIONAL
    Expressing a condition or supposition; as, a conditional word, mode, or tense. A conditional proposition is one which asserts the dependence of one categorical proposition on another. Whately. The words hypothetical and conditional may be . . .
  • OFFICE WIRE
    Copper wire with a strong but light insulation, used in wiring houses, etc.
  • CONDITIONATE
    Conditional. Barak's answer is faithful, though conditionate. Bp. Hall.
  • ALDERMANIC
    Relating to, becoming to, or like, an alderman; characteristic of an alderman.
  • CONDITIONLY
    Conditionally.
  • CONDITION
    A clause in a contract, or agreement, which has for its object to suspend, to defeat, or in some way to modify, the principal obligation; or, in case of a will, to suspend, revoke, or modify a devise or bequest. It is also the case of
  • ALDERMANLIKE
    Like or suited to an alderman.
  • OFFICER
    Specifically, a commissioned officer, in distinction from a warrant officer. Field officer, General officer, etc. See under Field, General. etc. -- Officer of the day , the officer who, on a given day, has charge for that day of the quard,
  • POSITION
    A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; -- called also the rule of trial and error. Angle of position , the angle which any line makes with another fixed line, specifically with a circle of declination. -- Double position ,
  • ALDERMANRY
    1. The district or ward of an alderman. 2. The office or rank of an alderman. B. Jonson.
  • POSITIONAL
    Of or pertaining to position. Ascribing unto plants positional operations. Sir T. Browne.
  • OFFICE
    The apartments or outhouses in which the domestics discharge the duties attached to the service of a house, as kitchens, pantries, stables, etc. As for the offices, let them stand at distance. Bacon. (more info) 1. That which a person does, either
  • ALDERMANLY
    Pertaining to, or like, an alderman.
  • CONDITIONALLY
    In a conditional manner; subject to a condition or conditions; not absolutely or positively. Shak.
  • CONDITIONED
    1. Surrounded; circumstanced; in a certain state or condition, as of property or health; as, a well conditioned man. The best conditioned and unwearied spirit. Shak. 2. Having, or known under or by, conditions or relations; not independent; not
  • ALDERMANITY
    1. Aldermen collectively; the body of aldermen. 2. The state of being an alderman.
  • ALDERMAN
    1. A senior or superior; a person of rank or dignity. Note: The title was applied, among the Anglo-Saxons, to princes, dukes, earls, senators, and presiding magistrates; also to archbishops and bishops, implying superior wisdom or authority. Thus
  • POST OFFICE
    See POST
  • APPOSITION
    The state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first. Growth by apposition , a mode of growth characteristic
  • BOOKING OFFICE
    1. An office where passengers, baggage, etc., are registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship. 2. An office where passage tickets are sold.
  • OPPOSITIONIST
    One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed.
  • CROWN OFFICE
    The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases. Burrill.
  • EXPOSITION
    1. The act of exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view. 2. The act of expounding or of laying open the sense or meaning of an author, or a passage; explanation; interpretation; the sense put upon a passage; a law, or
  • DECOMPOSITION
    1. The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of
  • SEPOSITION
    The act of setting aside, or of giving up. Jer. Taylor.
  • CIRCUMPOSITION
    The act of placing in a circle, or round about, or the state of being so placed. Evelyn.
  • ANTEPOSITION
    The placing of a before another, which, by ordinary rules, ought to follow it.
  • PRESUPPOSITION
    1. The act of presupposing; an antecedent implication; presumption. 2. That which is presupposed; a previous supposition or surmise.
  • DEPOSITION
    The act of laying down one's testimony in writing; also, testimony laid or taken down in writting, under oath or affirmation, befor some competent officer, and in reply to interrogatories and cross-interrogatories. Syn. -- Deposition, Affidavit.
  • MISEXPOSITION
    Wrong exposition.
  • INCONDITIONAL
    Unconditional. Sir T. Browne.
  • UNCONDITIONAL
    Not conditional limited, or conditioned; made without condition; absolute; unreserved; as, an unconditional surrender. O, pass not, Lord, an absolute decree, Or bind thy sentence unconditional. Dryden. -- Un`con*di"tion*al*ly, adv.
  • UNCONDITIONED
    Not subject to condition or limitations; infinite; absolute; hence, inconceivable; incogitable. Sir W. Hamilton. The unconditioned , all that which is inconceivable and beyond the realm of reason; whatever is inconceivable under logical forms or

 

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