Word Meanings - INALIENABLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a manner that forbids alienation; as, rights inalienably vested.

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• VEST
  and E. wear: cf. F. veste. See Wear to carry on the person, and cf. 1. An article of clothing covering the person; an outer garment; a vestment; a dress; a vesture; a robe. In state attended by her maiden train, Who bore the vests that holy rites
• INALIENABLY
  In a manner that forbids alienation; as, rights inalienably vested.
• VESTRY
  A parochial assembly; an assembly of persons who manage parochial affairs; -- so called because usually held in a vestry. (more info) vestiarium, fr. vestiarius belonging to clothes, fr. vestis a 1. A room appendant to a church, in which sacerdotal
• VESTLET
  Any one of several species of actinians belonging to the genus Cerianthus. These animals have a long, smooth body tapering to the base, and two separate circles of tentacles around the mouth. They form a tough, flexible, feltlike tube with a smooth
• VESTIBULAR
  Of or pertaining to a vestibule; like a vestibule.
• VESTING
  Cloth for vests; a vest pattern.
• VESTIGIAL
  Of or pertaining to a vestige or remnant; like a vestige.
• VESTIGATE
  To investigate.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• VESTITURE
  In vestiture.
• VESTED
  Not in a state of contingency or suspension; fixed; as, vested rights; vested interests. Vested legacy , a legacy the right to which commences in præsenti, and does not depend on a contingency; as, a legacy to one to be paid when he attains to
• VESTALES
  A group of butterflies including those known as virgins, or gossamer-winged butterflies.
• VESTRYMAN
  A member of a vestry; especially , a member other than a warden. See Vestry.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• VESTA
  One of the great divinities of the ancient Romans, identical with the Greek Hestia. She was a virgin, and the goddess of the hearth; hence, also, of the fire on it, and the family round it.
• VESTIBULED TRAIN
  See VESTIBULE
• VESTIBULE
  The porch or entrance into a house; a hall or antechamber next the entrance; a lobby; a porch; a hall. Vestibule of the ear. See under Ear. -- Vestibule of the vulva , a triangular space between the nymphæ, in which the orifice of the urethra
• VESTIARIAN
  Of or pertaining to a vestiary or vestments.
• ALIENATION
  A transfer of title, or a legal conveyance of property to another. 3. A withdrawing or estrangement, as of the affections. The alienation of his heart from the king. Bacon. 4. Mental alienation; derangement of the mental faculties; insanity; as,
• VESTED SCHOOL
  In Ireland, a national school which has been built by the aid of grants from the board of Commissioners of National Education and is secured for educational purposes by leases to the commissioners themselves, or to the commissioners and
• INVESTIGATION
  The act of investigating; the process of inquiring into or following up; research; study; inquiry, esp. patient or thorough inquiry or examination; as, the investigations of the philosopher and the mathematician; the investigations of the judge,
• DIVESTITURE
  The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.
• DIVESTMENT
  The act of divesting.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• INVESTIGATIVE
  Given to investigation; inquisitive; curious; searching.
• REVESTTURE
  Vesture. Richrevesture of cloth of gold. E. Hall.
• INVESTIENT
  Covering; clothing. Woodward.
• TRAVESTY
  Disguised by dress so as to be ridiculous; travestied; -- applied to a book or shorter composition. (more info) travesty, It. travestire, fr. L. trans across, over + vestire to
• REINVESTMENT
  The act of investing anew; a second or repeated investment.
• REINVEST
  To invest again or anew.
• AVESTA
  The Zoroastrian scriptures. See Zend-Avesta.
• HARVEST-HOME
  1. The gathering and bringing home of the harvest; the time of harvest. Showed like a stubble land at harvest-home. Shak. 2. The song sung by reapers at the feast made at the close of the harvest; the feast itself. Dryden. 3. A service
• INVESTITURE
  Livery of seizin. The grant of land or a feud was perfected by the ceremony oinvestiture, or open delivery of possession. Blackstone. 3. That with which anyone is invested or clothed; investment; clothing; covering. While we yet have on Our gross
• HARVESTRY
  The act of harvesting; also, that which is harvested. Swinburne.