Word Meanings - SUPERSEDURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of superseding, or setting aside; supersession; as, the supersedure of trial by jury. A. Hamilton.

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• ASIDE
  1. On, or to, one side; out of a straight line, course, or direction; at a little distance from the rest; out of the way; apart. Thou shalt set aside that which is full. 2 Kings iv. 4. But soft! but soft! aside: here comes the king. Shak.
• TRIALITY
  Three united; state of being three. H. Wharton.
• SETTLEMENT
  A disposition of property for the benefit of some person or persons, usually through the medium of trustees, and for the benefit of a wife, children, or other relatives; jointure granted to a wife, or the act of granting it. 2. That which settles,
• SETT
  See 3
• SETTER
  A hunting dog of a special breed originally derived from a cross between the spaniel and the pointer. Modern setters are usually trained to indicate the position of game birds by standing in a fixed position, but originally they indicated it by
• SUPERSEDURE
  The act of superseding, or setting aside; supersession; as, the supersedure of trial by jury. A. Hamilton.
• SUPERSEDE
  To omit; to forbear. (more info) superior to, forbear, omit; super above + sedere to sit: cf. F. 1. To come, or be placed, in the room of; to replace. 2. To displace, or set aside, and put another in place of; as, to supersede an officer. 3. To
• SUPERSESSION
  The act of superseding, or the state of being superseded; supersedure. The general law of diminishing return from land would have undergone, to that extent, a temporary supersession. J. S. Mill.
• TRIALOGUE
  A discourse or colloquy by three persons.
• SETTEE
  A long seat with a back, -- made to accommodate several persons at once.
• SETTLE
  1. A seat of any kind. "Upon the settle of his majesty" Hampole. 2. A bench; especially, a bench with a high back. 3. A place made lower than the rest; a wide step or platform lower than some other part. And from the bottom upon the ground, even
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
• SETTLER
  1. One who settles, becomes fixed, established, etc. 2. Especially, one who establishes himself in a new region or a colony; a colonist; a planter; as, the first settlers of New England. 3. That which settles or finishes; hence, a blow, etc., which
• SUPERSEDEAS
  A writ of command to suspend the powers of an officer in certain cases, or to stay proceedings under another writ. Blackstone.
• SETTLING
  That which settles at the bottom of a liquid; lees; dregs; sediment. Milton. Settling day, a day for settling accounts, as in the stock market. (more info) 1. The act of one who, or that which, settles; the act of establishing one's self,
• SETTING-UP EXERCISE
  Any one of a series of gymnastic exercises used, as in drilling recruits, for the purpose of giving an erect carriage, supple muscles, and an easy control of the limbs.
• TRIAL BALANCE
  The testing of a ledger to discover whether the debits and credits balance, by finding whether the sum of the personal credits increased by the difference between the debit and credit sums in the merchandise and other impersonal accounts equals
• SETTERWORT
  The bear's-foot ; -- so called because the root was used in settering, or inserting setons into the dewlaps of cattle. Called also pegroots. Dr. Prior.
• TRIAL
  The formal examination of the matter in issue in a cause before a competent tribunal; the mode of determining a question of fact in a court of law; the examination, in legal form, of the facts in issue in a cause pending before a competent tribunal,
• SETTLEDNESS
  The quality or state of being settled; confirmed state. Bp. Hall.
• UPSETTING
  Conceited; assuming; as, an upsetting fellow. Jamieson.
• TYPESETTING
  The act or art of setting type.
• ROSETTA WOOD
  An east Indian wood of a reddish orange color, handsomely veined with darker marks. It is occasionally used for cabinetwork. Ure.
• SUNSET; SUNSETTING
  1. The descent of the sun below the horizon; also, the time when the sun sets; evening. Also used figuratively. 'T is the sunset of life gives me mystical lore. Campbell. 2. Hence, the region where the sun sets; the west. Sunset shell , a West
• FRISETTE; FRIZETTE
  a fringe of hair or curls worn about the forehead by women.
• ANISETTE
  A French cordial or liqueur flavored with anise seeds. De Colange.
• NARRAGANSETTS
  A tribe of Indians who formerly inhabited the shores of Narragansett Bay.
• ROUSSETTE
  A fruit bat, especially the large species inhabiting the islands of the Indian ocean. It measures about a yard across the expanded wings.
• FALSETTO
  A false or artificial voice; that voice in a man which lies above his natural voice; the male counter tenor or alto voice. See Head voice, under Voice.
• CASSETTE
  See SEGGAR
• FOSSETTE
  A small, deep-centered ulcer of the transparent cornea. (more info) 1. A little hollow; hence, a dimple.
• DISSETTLEMENT
  The act of unsettling, or the state of being unsettled. Marvell.
• CROSSETTE
  A return in one of the corners of the architrave of a door or window; -- called also ancon, ear, elbow. The shoulder of a joggled keystone.
• COSSETTE
  One of the small chips or slices into which beets are cut in sugar making.