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Word Meanings - SURROGATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

to put in another's place, to substitute; sub under + rogare to ask, 1. A deputy; a delegate; a substitute. 2. The deputy of an ecclesiastical judge, most commonly of a bishop or his chancellor, especially a deputy who grants marriage licenses.

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to put in another's place, to substitute; sub under + rogare to ask, 1. A deputy; a delegate; a substitute. 2. The deputy of an ecclesiastical judge, most commonly of a bishop or his chancellor, especially a deputy who grants marriage licenses. 3. In some States of the United States, an officer who presides over the probate of wills and testaments and yield the settlement of estates.

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    One who underdoes; a shirk.
  • UNDERBRED
    Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith.
  • UNDERSECRETARY
    A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
  • UNDERPLOT
    1. A series of events in a play, proceeding collaterally with the main story, and subservient to it. Dryden. 2. A clandestine scheme; a trick. Addison.
  • UNDERNICENESS
    A want of niceness; indelicacy; impropriety.
  • UNDERDOLVEN
    p. p. of Underdelve.
  • UNDERSOIL
    The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil.
  • UNDERNIME
    1. To receive; to perceive. He the savor undernom Which that the roses and the lilies cast. Chaucer. 2. To reprove; to reprehend. Piers Plowman.
  • UNDERPROP
    To prop from beneath; to put a prop under; to support; to uphold. Underprop the head that bears the crown. Fenton.
  • UNDERCREST
    To support as a crest; to bear. Shak.
  • UNDERSAY
    To say by way of derogation or contradiction. Spenser.
  • UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
    Wildcat insurance.
  • UNDERTAPSTER
    Assistant to a tapster.
  • UNDERDELVE
    To delve under.
  • UNDERSTOOD
    imp. & p. p. of Understand.
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    1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
  • ANOTHER-GUESS
    Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
  • UNDERDO
    To do less than is requisite or proper; -- opposed to overdo. Grew.
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    1. A coat worn under another; a light coat, as distinguished from an overcoat, or a greatcoat. 2. A growth of short hair or fur partially concealed by a longer growth; as, a dog's undercoat.
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    Jurisdiction of a bishop; episcopate. "Divine right of bishopdom." Milton.
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    To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.
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    One who plunders or pillages.
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    A large oceanic fish found in the tropical parts of all the oceans. It is used chiefly for bait.
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