Word Meanings - CONVENTIONALIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who adheres to a convention or treaty. 2. One who is governed by conventionalism.

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• CONVENTIONALLY
  In a conventional manner.
• CONVENTIONAL
  1. Formed by agreement or compact; stipulated. Conventional services reserved by tenures upon grants, made out of the crown or knights' service. Sir M. Hale. 2. Growing out of, or depending on, custom or tacit agreement; sanctioned by
• CONVENTIONALISM
  The principles or practice of conventionalizing. See Conventionalize, v. t. (more info) 1. That which is received or established by convention or arbitrary agreement; that which is in accordance with the fashion, tradition, or usage.
• GOVERNORSHIP
  The office of a governor.
• CONVENTIONIST
  One who enters into a convention, covenant, or contract.
• GOVERNABLENESS
  The quality of being governable; manageableness.
• GOVERNANCE
  Exercise of authority; control; government; arrangement. Chaucer. J. H. Newman.
• CONVENTIONALITY
  The state of being conventional; adherence to social formalities or usages; that which is established by conventional use; one of the customary usages of social life.
• GOVERNMENTAL
  Pertaining to government; made by government; as, governmental duties.
• GOVERNMENT
  The influence of a word in regard to construction, requiring that another word should be in a particular case. (more info) 1. The act of governing; the exercise of authority; the administration of laws; control; direction; regulation; as, civil,
• GOVERNING
  Requiring a particular case. (more info) 1. Holding the superiority; prevalent; controlling; as, a governing wind; a governing party in a state. Jay.
• GOVERNANTE
  A governess. Sir W. Scott.
• CONVENTIONALIST
  1. One who adheres to a convention or treaty. 2. One who is governed by conventionalism.
• CONVENTIONALIZATION
  The act of making conventional. The state of being conventional.
• GOVERNABILITY
  Governableness.
• GOVERNOR
  A pilot; a steersman. (more info) gouverneur, fr. L. gubernator steersman, ruler, governor. See 1. One who governs; especially, one who is invested with the supreme executive authority in a State; a chief ruler or magistrate; as, the governor of
• CONVENTIONARY
  Acting under contract; settled by express agreement; as, conventionary tenants. R. Carew.
• CONVENTIONALIZE
  1. To make conventional; to bring under the influence of, or cause to conform to, conventional rules; to establish by usage. To represent by selecting the important features and those which are expressible in the medium employed, and omitting the
• CONVENTION
  An extraordinary assembly of the parkiament or estates of the realm, held without the king's writ, -- as the assembly which restored Charles II. to the throne, and that which declared the throne to be abdicated by James II. Our gratitude is due
• GOVERNESS
  A female governor; a woman invested with authority to control and direct; especially, one intrusted with the care and instruction of children, -- usually in their homes.
• MISGOVERNED
  Ill governed, as a people; ill directed. "Rude, misgoverned hands." Shak.
• UNGOVERNABLE
  Not governable; not capable of being governed, ruled, or restrained; licentious; wild; unbridled; as, ungovernable passions. -- Un*gov"ern*a*bly, adv. Goldsmith.
• MISGOVERNMENT
  Bad government; want of government. Shak.
• ENTREATY
  1. Treatment; reception; entertainment. B. Jonson. 2. The act of entreating or beseeching; urgent prayer; earnest petition; pressing solicitation. Fair entreaty, and sweet blandishment. Spenser. Syn. -- Solicitation; request; suit; supplication;
• RELAY GOVERNOR
  A speed regulator, as a water-wheel governor, embodying the relay principle.