Word Meanings - BENCHER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of the senior and governing members of an Inn of Court. 2. An alderman of a corporation. Ashmole. 3. A member of a court or council. Shak. 4. One who frequents the benches of a tavern; an idler.

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• TAVERNER
  One who keeps a tavern. Chaucer. Camden.
• SENIORIZE
  To exercise authority; to rule; to lord it. Fairfax.
• SENIORITY
  The quality or state of being senior.
• CORPORATION
  A body politic or corporate, formed and authorized by law to act as a single person, and endowed by law with the capacity of succession; a society having the capacity of transacting business as an individual. Note: Corporations are aggregate or
• ALDERMANSHIP
  The condition, position, or office of an alderman. Fabyan.
• TAVERNING
  A feasting at taverns. "The misrule of our tavernings." Bp. Hall.
• COURTESAN
  A woman who prostitutes herself for hire; a prostitute; a harlot. Lasciviously decked like a courtesan. Sir H. Wotton. (more info) courtier, It. cortigiano; or directly fr. It. cortigiana, or Sp.
• GOVERNORSHIP
  The office of a governor.
• COURT TENNIS
  See TENNIS
• COURT-CUPBOARD
  A movable sideboard or buffet, on which plate and other articles of luxury were displayed on special ocasions. A way with the joint stools, remove the court-cupboard, look to the plate. Shak.
• COURTEPY
  A short coat of coarse cloth. Full threadbare was his overeste courtepy. Chaucer.
• GOVERNABLENESS
  The quality of being governable; manageableness.
• COURTBRED
  Bred, or educated, at court; polished; courtly.
• COUNCILMAN
  A member of a council, especially of the common council of a city; a councilor.
• COURTESANSHIP
  Harlotry.
• GOVERNANCE
  Exercise of authority; control; government; arrangement. Chaucer. J. H. Newman.
• COURT-MARTIAL
  A court consisting of military or naval officers, for the trial of one belonging to the army or navy, or of offenses against military or naval law.
• TAVERNMAN
  The keeper of a tavern; also, a tippler.
• MEMBERSHIP
  1. The state of being a member. 2. The collective body of members, as of a society.
• GOVERNMENTAL
  Pertaining to government; made by government; as, governmental duties.
• MISGOVERNED
  Ill governed, as a people; ill directed. "Rude, misgoverned hands." Shak.
• MISREMEMBER
  To mistake in remembering; not to remember correctly. Sir T. More.
• UNGOVERNABLE
  Not governable; not capable of being governed, ruled, or restrained; licentious; wild; unbridled; as, ungovernable passions. -- Un*gov"ern*a*bly, adv. Goldsmith.
• PUBLIC-SERVICE CORPORATION; QUASI-PUBLIC CORPORATION
  A corporation, such as a railroad company, lighting company, water company, etc., organized or chartered to follow a public calling or to render services more or less essential to the general public convenience or safety.
• MISGOVERNMENT
  Bad government; want of government. Shak.
• REMEMBER
  re- + memorare to bring to remembrance, from memor mindful. See 1. To have come into the mind again, as previously perceived, known, or felt; to have a renewed apprehension of; to bring to mind again; to think of again; to recollect;
• QUASI CORPORATION
  A corporation consisting of a person or body of persons invested with some of the qualities of an artificial person, though not expressly incorporated, esp. the official of certain municipal divisions such as counties, schools districts, and the
• NONMEMBERSHIP
  State of not being a member.
• REMEMBERABLE
  Capable or worthy of being remembered. -- Re*mem"ber*a*bly, adv. The whole vale of Keswick is so rememberable. Coleridge.
• OUTCOURT
  An outer or exterior court. The skirts and outcourts of heaven. South.