Word Meanings - PECULIARIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession. Dr. John Smith.

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• ASSIGNEE
  In England, the persons appointed, under a commission of bankruptcy, to manage the estate of a bankrupt for the benefit of his creditors. (more info) A person to whom an assignment is made; a person appointed or deputed by another to do some act,
• PECULIARIZE
  To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession. Dr. John Smith.
• POSSESSIONER
  1. A possessor; a property holder. "Possessioners of riches." E. Hall. Having been of old freemen and possessioners. Sir P. Sidney. 2. An invidious name for a member of any religious community endowed with property in lands, buildings, etc.,
• PECULIARNESS
  The quality or state of being peculiar; peculiarity. Mede.
• ASSIGNABILITY
  The quality of being assignable.
• ASSIGN
  To transfer, or make over to another, esp. to transfer to, and vest in, certain persons, called assignees, for the benefit of creditors. To assign dower, to set out by metes and bounds the widow's share or portion in an estate. Kent. (more info)
• SMITHSONIAN
  Of or pertaining to the Englishman J.L.M. Smithson, or to the national institution of learning which he endowed at Washington, D.C.; as, the Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Reports. -- n.
• ASSIGNATION
  1. The act of assigning or allotting; apportionment. This order being taken in the senate, as touching the appointment and assignation of those provinces. Holland. 2. An appointment of time and place for meeting or interview; -- used chiefly of
• PECULIARLY
  In a peculiar manner; particulary; in a rare and striking degree; unusually.
• PECULIAR
  1. One's own; belonging solely or especially to an individual; not possessed by others; of private, personal, or characteristic possession and use; not owned in common or in participation. And purify unto himself a peculiar people. Titus ii. 14.
• SMITHSONITE
  Native zinc carbonate. It generally occurs in stalactitic, reniform, or botryoidal shapes, of a white to gray, green, or brown color. See Note under Calamine.
• POSSESSIONARY
  Of or pertaining to possession; arising from possession.
• ASSIGNAT
  One of the notes, bills, or bonds, issued as currency by the revolutionary government of France , and based on the security of the lands of the church and of nobles which had been appropriated by the state.
• EXCLUSIVENESS
  Quality of being exclusive.
• SMITHER
  Fragments; atoms; finders. Smash the bottle to smithers. Tennyson. (more info) 1. Light, fine rain. 2. pl.
• SMITH
  Icel. smi, Dan. & Sw. smed, Goth. smi ; cf. Gr. 1. One who forgess with the hammer; one who works in metals; as, a blacksmith, goldsmith, silversmith, and the like. Piers Plowman. Nor yet the smith hath learned to form a sword. Tate. 2. One who
• SMITHCRAFT
  The art or occupation of a smith; smithing. Sir W. Raleigh.
• ASSIGNABLE
  Capable of being assigned, allotted, specified, or designated; as, an assignable note or bill; an assignable reason; an assignable quantity.
• POSSESSION
  The having, holding, or detention of property in one's power or command; actual seizin or occupancy; ownership, whether rightful or wrongful. Note: Possession may be either actual or constructive; actual, when a party has the immediate occupancy;
• ASSIGNER
  One who assigns, appoints, allots, or apportions.
• MISASSIGN
  To assign wrongly.
• DISPOSSESSION
  The putting out of possession, wrongfully or otherwise, of one who is in possession of a freehold, no matter in what title; -- called also ouster. (more info) 1. The act of putting out of possession; the state of being dispossessed. Bp. Hall.
• SELF-POSSESSION
  The possession of one's powers; calmness; self-command; presence of mind; composure.
• WHITESMITH
  1. One who works in tinned or galvanized iron, or white iron; a tinsmith. 2. A worker in iron who finishes or polishes the work, in distinction from one who forges it.
• LOCKSMITH
  An artificer whose occupation is to make or mend locks.