Word Meanings - RESIDENCIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In Spanish countries, a court or trial held, sometimes as long as six months, by a newly elected official, as the governor of a province, to examine into the conduct of a predecessor.

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• ELECTRO-MUSCULAR
  Pertaining the reaction of the muscles under electricity, or their sensibility to it.
• ELECTROTYPER
  One who electrotypes.
• ELECTREPETER
  An instrument used to change the direction of electric currents; a commutator.
• TRIALITY
  Three united; state of being three. H. Wharton.
• ELECTRO-DYNAMIC; ELECTRO-DYNAMICAL
  Pertaining to the movements or force of electric or galvanic currents; dependent on electric force.
• ELECTRO-CAPILLARITY
  The occurrence or production of certain capillary effects by the action of an electrical current or charge.
• ELECTRONIC
  Of or pertaining to an electron or electrons.
• ELECTRO-BIOLOGIST
  One versed in electro-biology.
• ELECTORATE
  1. The territory, jurisdiction, or dignity of an elector, as in the old German empire. 2. The whole body of persons in a nation or state who are entitled to vote in an election, or any distinct class or division of them. The middle-class electorate
• ELECTROLOGY
  That branch of physical science which treats of the phenomena of electricity and its properties.
• ELECTRICIAN
  An investigator of electricity; one versed in the science of electricity.
• ELECTRO-CHRONOGRAPH
  An instrument for obtaining an accurate record of the time at which any observed phenomenon occurs, or of its duration. It has an electro-magnetic register connected with a clock. See Chronograph.
• ELECTROTYPE
  A facsimile plate made by electrotypy for use in printing; also, an impression or print from such plate. Also used adjectively. Note: The face of an electrotype consists of a shell of copper, silver, or the like, produced by the action
• SOMETIMES
  1. Formerly; sometime. That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march. Shak. 2. At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally. It is good that we sometimes be contradicted. Jer. Taylor. Sometimes . . .
• ELECTRO-GILDING
  The art or process of gilding copper, iron, etc., by means of voltaic electricity.
• OFFICIALISM
  The state of being official; a system of official government; also, adherence to office routine; red-tapism. Officialism may often drift into blunders. Smiles.
• ELECTRO-POLAR
  Possessing electrical polarity; positively electrified at one end, or on one surface, and negatively at the other; -- said of a conductor.
• ELECTROTONIZE
  To cause or produce electrotonus.
• ELECTRE; ELECTER
  1. Amber. See Electrum. 2. A metallic substance compounded of gold and silver; an alloy. Wyclif.
• 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.
• SAFE-CONDUCT
  That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak.
• ANELECTRIC
  Not becoming electrified by friction; -- opposed to idioelectric. -- n.
• CROSS-EXAMINER
  One who cross-examines or conducts a crosse-examination.
• PYROELECTRICITY
  Electricity developed by means of heat; the science which treats of electricity thus developed.
• INOFFICIALLY
  Without the usual forms, or not in the official character.