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Word Meanings - ANTENUPTIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Preceding marriage; as, an antenuptial agreement. Kent.

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  • ANTENUPTIAL
    Preceding marriage; as, an antenuptial agreement. Kent.
  • PRECEDENTLY
    Beforehand; antecedently.
  • PRECEDENTED
    Having a precedent; authorized or sanctioned by an example of a like kind. Walpole.
  • PRECEDE
    1. To go before in order of time; to occur first with relation to anything. "Harm precedes not sin." Milton. 2. To go before in place, rank, or importance. 3. To cause to be preceded; to preface; to introduce; -- used with by or with before the
  • PRECEDENCE; PRECEDENCY
    1. The act or state of preceding or going before in order of time; priority; as, one event has precedence of another. 2. The act or state of going or being before in rank or dignity, or the place of honor; right to a more honorable place; superior
  • MARRIAGEABILITY
    The quality or state of being marriageable.
  • MARRIAGE
    1. The act of marrying, or the state of being married; legal union of a man and a woman for life, as husband and wife; wedlock; matrimony. Marriage is honorable in all. Heb. xiii. 4. 2. The marriage vow or contract. Chaucer. 3. A feast made on
  • AGREEMENT
    Concord or correspondence of one word with another in gender, number, case, or person. A concurrence in an engagement that something shall be done or omitted; an exchange of promises; mutual understanding, arrangement, or stipulation; a contract.
  • PRECEDENTIAL
    Of the nature of a precedent; having force as an example for imitation; as, precedential transactions. All their actions in that time are not precedential to warrant posterity. Fuller.
  • MARRIAGEABLE
    Fit for, or capable of, marriage; of an age at which marriage is allowable. -- Mar"riage*a*ble*ness, n.
  • PRECEDING
    In the direction toward which stars appear to move. See Following, 2. (more info) 1. Going before; -- opposed to following.
  • PRECEDENT
    Going before; anterior; preceding; antecedent; as, precedent services. Shak. "A precedent injury." Bacon. Condition precedent , a condition which precede the vesting of an estate, or the accruing of a right.
  • PRECEDANEOUS
    Preceding; antecedent; previous. Hammond.
  • HIRE PURCHASE; HIRE PURCHASE AGREEMENT; HIRE AND PURCHASE AGREEMENT
    A contract (more fully called contract of hire with an option of purchase) in which a person hires goods for a specified period and at a fixed rent, with the added condition that if he shall retain the goods for the full period and pay
  • GENTLEMEN'S AGREEMENT
    An agreement binding only as a matter of honor; often, specif., such an agreement among the heads of industrial or merchantile enterprises, the terms of which could not be included and enforced in a legal contract.
  • INTERMARRIAGE
    Connection by marriage; reciprocal marriage; giving and taking in marriage, as between two families, tribes, castes, or nations.
  • DISAGREEMENT
    1. The state of disagreeing; a being at variance; dissimilitude; diversity. 2. Unsuitableness; unadaptedness. 3. Difference of opinion or sentiment. 4. A falling out, or controversy; difference. Syn. -- Difference; diversity; dissimilitude;
  • UNPRECEDENTED
    Having no precedent or example; not preceded by a like case; not having the authority of prior example; novel; new; unexampled. -- Un*prec"e*dent*ed*ly, adv.
  • FRANK-MARRIAGE
    A certain tenure in tail special; an estate of inheritance given to a man his wife , and descendible to the heirs of their two bodies begotten. Blackstone.
  • REMARRIAGE
    A second or repeated marriage.

 

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