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Word Meanings - BESTOWAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of bestowing; disposal.

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  • OFFER
    ferre to bear, bring. The English word was influenced by F. offrir to 1. To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up. Thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for
  • EXHIBITION
    The act of administering a remedy. (more info) 1. The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display. 2. That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art,
  • OFFERER
    One who offers; esp., one who offers something to God in worship. Hooker.
  • EXHIBITIONER
    One who has a pension or allowance granted for support. A youth who had as an exhibitioner from Christ's Hospital. G. Eliot.
  • ENDOWMENT
    1. The act of bestowing a dower, fund, or permanent provision for support. 2. That which is bestowed or settled on a person or an institution; property, fund, or revenue permanently appropriated to any object; as, the endowment of a church,
  • OFFERTURE
    Offer; proposal; overture. More offertures and advantages to his crown. Milton.
  • OFFERTORY
    1. The act of offering, or the thing offered. Bacon. Bp. Fell. An anthem chanted, or a voluntary played on the organ, during the offering and first part of the Mass. That part of the Mass which the priest reads before uncovering the chalice to
  • GRANT
    yield, LL. creantare to promise, assure, for credentare to make believe, fr. L. credens, p. pr. of credere to believe. See 1. To give over; to make conveyance of; to give the possession or title of; to convey; -- usually in answer to petition.
  • OFFERING
    1. The act of an offerer; a proffering. 2. That which is offered, esp. in divine service; that which is presented as an expiation or atonement for sin, or as a free gift; a sacrifice; an oblation; as, sin offering. They are polluted offerings more
  • DONATION
    The act or contract by which a person voluntarily transfers the title to a thing of which be is the owner, from himself to another, without any consideration, as a free gift. Bouvier. Donation party, a party assembled at the house of some one, as
  • INTRODUCTION
    1. The act of introducing, or bringing to notice. 2. The act of formally making persons known to each other; a presentation or making known of one person to another by name; as, the introduction of one stranger to another. 3. That part of a book
  • GRANTEE
    The person to whom a grant or conveyance is made. His grace will not survive the poor grantee he despises. Burke.
  • OFFERABLE
    Capable of being offered; suitable or worthy to be offered.
  • BESTOWAL
    The act of bestowing; disposal.
  • DELIVERY
    1. The act of delivering from restraint; rescue; release; liberation; as, the delivery of a captive from his dungeon. 2. The act of delivering up or over; surrender; transfer of the body or substance of a thing; distribution; as, the delivery of
  • GRANTABLE
    Capable of being granted.
  • GRANTER
    One who grants.
  • PRESENTATION
    exhibition; representation; display; appearance; semblance; show. Under the presentation of the shoots his wit. Shak. 3. That which is presented or given; a present; a gift, as, the picture was a presentation. (more info) 1. The act of presenting,
  • GRANTOR
    The person by whom a grant or conveyance is made.
  • IMMIGRANT
    One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence; -- correlative of emigrant. Syn. -- See Emigrant.
  • REDELIVERY
    1. Act of delivering back. 2. A second or new delivery or liberation.
  • CONDONATION
    Forgiveness, either express or implied, by a husband of his wife or by a wife of her husband, for a breach of marital duty, as adultery, with an implied condition that the offense shall not be repeated. Bouvier. Wharton. (more info) 1. The act
  • NONPRESENTATION
    Neglect or failure to present; state of not being presented.
  • FLAGRANT
    1. Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent. The beadle's lash still flagrant on their back. Prior. A young man yet flagrant from the lash of the executioner or the beadle. De Quincey. Flagrant desires and affections. Hooker. 2. Actually in
  • INTEGRANT
    Making part of a whole; necessary to constitute an entire thing; integral. Boyle. All these are integrant parts of the republic. Burke. Integrant parts, or particles, of bodies, those smaller particles into which a body may be reduced without loss
  • VAGRANTNESS
    State of being vagrant; vagrancy.
  • FRAGRANT
    fragrance: cf. OF. fragrant. Affecting the olfactory nerves agreeably; sweet of smell; odorous; having or emitting an agreeable perfume. Fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers. Milton. Syn. -- Sweet-smelling; odorous; odoriferous;
  • RE-PRESENTATION
    The act of re-presenting, or the state of being presented again; a new presentation; as, re-presentation of facts previously stated.
  • PROFFER
    forth or forward, to offer; pro forward + ferre to bring. See Bear to 1. To offer for acceptance; to propose to give; to make a tender of; as, to proffer a gift; to proffer services; to proffer friendship. Shak. I reck not what wrong that thou
  • SCOFFERY
    The act of scoffing; scoffing conduct; mockery. Holinshed.
  • MIGRANT
    Migratory. Sir T. Browne. -- n.

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