Word Meanings - VERSUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Against; as, John Doe versus Richard Roe; -- chiefly used in legal language, and abbreviated to v. or vs.

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• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.
• LEGALITY
  1. The state or quality of being letter of the law.
• ABBREVIATION
  One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers. Moore. (more info) 1. The act of shortening, or reducing. 2. The result of abbreviating; an abridgment. Tylor. 3. The form to
• LEGALIZE
  To interpret or apply in a legal spirit. (more info) 1. To make legal.
• ABBREVIATED
  Shortened; relatively short; abbreviate.
• ABBREVIATORY
  Serving or tending to abbreviate; shortening; abridging.
• ABBREVIATOR
  1. One who abbreviates or shortens. 2. One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty is to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official
• LEGALLY
  In a legal manner.
• AGAINST
  1. Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. Tyndale. 2. From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in
• ABBREVIATURE
  1. An abbreviation; an abbreviated state or form. 2. An abridgment; a compendium or abstract. This is an excellent abbreviature of the whole duty of a Christian. Jer. Taylor.
• VERSUS
  Against; as, John Doe versus Richard Roe; -- chiefly used in legal language, and abbreviated to v. or vs.
• LEGALISM
  Strictness, or the doctrine of strictness, in conforming to law.
• LANGUAGE
  tongue, hence speech, language; akin to E. tongue. See Tongue, cf. 1. Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech; the expression of ideas by the voice; sounds, expressive of thought, articulated by the organs of the
• LEGALIZATION
  The act of making legal.
• LEGAL
  Governed by the rules of law as distinguished from the rules of equity; as, legal estate; legal assets. Bouvier. Burrill. Legal cap. See under Cap. -- Legal tender. The act of tendering in the performance of a contract or satisfaction of a claim
• ABBREVIATE
  To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction. (more info) 1. To make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken. It is one thing to abbreviate by contracting, another by cutting off.
• LANGUAGELESS
  Lacking or wanting language; speechless; silent. Shak.
• LANGUAGED
  Having a language; skilled in language; -- chiefly used in composition. " Manylanguaged nations." Pope.
• LEGALIST
  One who practices or advocates strict conformity to law; in theology, one who holds to the law of works. See Legal, 2 .
• CHIEFLY
  1. In the first place; principally; preëminently; above; especially. Search through this garden; leave unsearched no nook; But chiefly where those two fair creatures lodge. Milton. 2. For the most part; mostly. Those parts of the kingdom where
• OVERLANGUAGED
  Employing too many words; diffuse. Lowell.
• ILLEGAL
  Not according to, or authorized by, law; specif., contrary to, or in violation of, human law; unlawful; illicit; hence, immoral; as, an illegal act; illegal trade; illegal love. Bp. Burnet.
• ROE, RICHARD
  A fictious name for a party, real or fictious, to an act or proceeding. Other names were formerly similarly used, as John-a- Nokes, John o', or of the, Nokes, or Noakes, John-a-Stiles, etc.
• ILLEGALNESS
  Illegality, unlawfulness.
• ILLEGALITY
  The quality or condition of being illegal; unlawfulness; as, the illegality of trespass or of false imprisonment; also, an illegal act.
• SEA LANGUAGE
  The peculiar language or phraseology of seamen; sailor's cant.
• INDO-DO-CHINESE LANGUAGES
  A family of languages, mostly of the isolating type, although some are agglutinative, spoken in the great area extending from northern India in the west to Formosa in the east and from Central Asia in the north to the Malay Peninsula in the south.
• ILLEGALIZE
  To make or declare illegal or unlawful.
• PRETERLEGAL
  Exceeding the limits of law.
• MEDICO-LEGAL
  Of or pertaining to law as affected by medical facts.