Word Meanings - DEMESNE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A lord's chief manor place, with that part of the lands belonging thereto which has not been granted out in tenancy; a house, Law) See under Ancient. (more info) demaine, demeigne, domaine, power, F. domaine domain, fr. L. dominium property, right

Additional info about word: DEMESNE

A lord's chief manor place, with that part of the lands belonging thereto which has not been granted out in tenancy; a house, Law) See under Ancient. (more info) demaine, demeigne, domaine, power, F. domaine domain, fr. L. dominium property, right of ownership, fr. dominus master, proprietor, owner.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DEMESNE)

• Estate
• Lands
• fortune
• property
• possessions
• demesne
• order
• rank
• condition
• freehold
• domain

Related words: (words related to DEMESNE)

• LANDSTHING
  See BELOW
• LANDSKIP
  A landscape. Straight my eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landskip round it measures. Milton.
• CONDITIONALITY
  The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms.
• LANDSMAN
  A sailor on his first voyage. (more info) 1. One who lives on the land; -- opposed to seaman.
• 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 . . .
• FORTUNELESS
  Luckless; also, destitute of a fortune or portion. Spenser.
• DEMESNE
  A lord's chief manor place, with that part of the lands belonging thereto which has not been granted out in tenancy; a house, Law) See under Ancient. (more info) demaine, demeigne, domaine, power, F. domaine domain, fr. L. dominium property, right
• PROPERTY
  All the adjuncts of a play except the scenery and the dresses of the actors; stage requisites. I will draw a bill of properties. Shak. 6. Propriety; correctness. Camden. Literary property. See under Literary. -- Property man, one who has charge
• ORDERLY
  1. Conformed to order; in order; regular; as, an orderly course or plan. Milton. 2. Observant of order, authority, or rule; hence, obedient; quiet; peaceable; not unruly; as, orderly children; an orderly community. 3. Performed in good
• LANDSCAPE
  land land + -schap, equiv. to E. -schip; akin to G. landschaft, Sw. 1. A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains. 2. A picture representing a scene by land or sea, actual
• CONDITIONATE
  Conditional. Barak's answer is faithful, though conditionate. Bp. Hall.
• LANDSTREIGHT
  A narrow strip of land.
• LANDSTURM
  That part of the reserve force in Germany which is called out last.
• 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
• ESTATE
  The great classes or orders of a community or state (as the clergy, the nobility, and the commonalty of England) or their representatives who administer the government; as, the estates of the realm , which are the lords spiritual, the lords
• ORDERLINESS
  The state or quality of being orderly.
• ORDER
  1. Regular arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system; as: Of material things, like the books in a library. Of intellectual notions or ideas, like the topics of a discource. Of periods of time or
• FREEHOLD
  An estate in real property, of inheritance (in fee simple or fee tail) or for life; or the tenure by which such estate is held. Kent. Burrill. To abate into a freehold. See under Abate.
• ORDERING
  Disposition; distribution; management. South.
• COWPER'S GLANDS
  Two small glands discharging into the male urethra.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• MISFORTUNED
  Unfortunate.
• REESTATE
  To reëstablish. Walis.
• MISORDER
  To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak.
• DEHONESTATE
  To disparage. (more info) dishonor; de- + honestare to make honorable. Cf. Dishonest, and see
• ACCORDER
  One who accords, assents, or concedes.
• INTESTATE
  1. Without having made a valid will; without a will; as, to die intestate. Blackstone. Airy succeeders of intestate joys. Shak. 2. Not devised or bequeathed; not disposed of by will; as, an intestate estate.
• IMPROPERTY
  Impropriety.
• INCONDITIONAL
  Unconditional. Sir T. Browne.
• WHEEL OF FORTUNE
  A gambling or lottery device consisting of a wheel which is spun horizontally, articles or sums to which certain marks on its circumference point when it stops being distributed according to varying rules.
• 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