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Word Meanings - LAWSUIT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An action at law; a suit in equity or admiralty; any legal proceeding before a court for the enforcement of a claim.

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  • LEGALITY
    1. The state or quality of being letter of the law.
  • PROCEED
    To begin and carry on a legal process. Syn. -- To advance; go on; continue; progress; issue; arise; emanate. (more info) 1. To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to continue or renew motion begun; as, to proceed on a journey. If thou
  • PROCEEDER
    One who proceeds.
  • EQUITY
    An equitable claim; an equity of redemption; as, an equity to a settlement, or wife's equity, etc. I consider the wife's equity to be too well settled to be shaken. Kent. (more info) 1. Equality of rights; natural justice or right; the giving,
  • ACTION
    Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun. (more info) 1. A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of
  • 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.
  • PROCEEDING
    The course of procedure in the prosecution of an action at law. Blackstone. Proceedings of a society, the published record of its action, or of things done at its meetings. Syn. -- Procedure; measure; step, See Transaction. (more info) 1. The act
  • 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.
  • BEFORETIME
    Formerly; aforetime. dwelt in their tents, as beforetime. 2 Kings xiii. 5.
  • COURTEPY
    A short coat of coarse cloth. Full threadbare was his overeste courtepy. Chaucer.
  • ACTIONABLE
    That may be the subject of an action or suit at law; as, to call a man a thief is actionable.
  • COURTBRED
    Bred, or educated, at court; polished; courtly.
  • LEGALIZE
    To interpret or apply in a legal spirit. (more info) 1. To make legal.
  • COURTESANSHIP
    Harlotry.
  • 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.
  • CLAIMABLE
    Capable of being claimed.
  • COURTLIKE
    After the manner of a court; elegant; polite; courtly.
  • COURTEOUSNESS
    The quality of being courteous; politeness; courtesy.
  • LEGALLY
    In a legal manner.
  • RECLAIMABLE
    That may be reclaimed.
  • REACTIONIST
    A reactionary. C. Kingsley.
  • RECLAIMER
    One who reclaims.
  • ACCLAIM
    1. To applaud. "A glad acclaiming train." Thomson. 2. To declare by acclamations. While the shouting crowd Acclaims thee king of traitors. Smollett. 3. To shout; as, to acclaim my joy.
  • MADEFACTION; MADEFICATION
    The act of madefying, or making wet; the state of that which is made wet. Bacon.
  • REDACTION
    The act of redacting; work produced by redacting; a digest.
  • CHYLIFACTION
    The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process.
  • THEREBEFORE; THEREBIFORN
    Before that time; beforehand. Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer.
  • FACTION
    One of the divisions or parties of charioteers (distinguished by their colors) in the games of the circus. 2. A party, in political society, combined or acting in union, in opposition to the government, or state; -- usually applied to a minority,
  • DISTRACTION
    1. The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation. To create distractions among us. Bp. Burnet. 2. That which diverts attention; a diversion. "Domestic distractions." G. Eliot. 3. A diversity of direction; detachment. His power went out in
  • REFACTION
    Recompense; atonemet; retribution. Howell.
  • COLLIQUEFACTION
    A melting together; the reduction of different bodies into one mass by fusion. The incorporation of metals by simple colliquefaction. Bacon.
  • DIRECT ACTION
    See BELOW
  • UNDERACTION
    Subordinate action; a minor action incidental or subsidiary to the main story; an episode. The least episodes or underactions . . . are parts necessary or convenient to carry on the main design. Dryden.
  • ABSTRACTION
    The act process of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others; analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or

 

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