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Word Meanings - BURGLARIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to burglary; constituting the crime of burglary. To come down a chimney is held a burglarious entry. Blackstone.

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  • BURGLARIOUSLY
    With an intent to commit burglary; in the manner of a burglar. Blackstone.
  • CONSTITUTIONALIST
    One who advocates a constitutional form of government; a constitutionalist.
  • CONSTITUTION
    1. The act or process of constituting; the action of enacting, establishing, or appointing; enactment; establishment; formation. 2. The state of being; that form of being, or structure and connection of parts, which constitutes and characterizes
  • CHIMNEY-BREAST
    The horizontal projection of a chimney from the wall in which it is built; -- commonly applied to its projection in the inside of a building only.
  • BURGLARY
    Breaking and entering the dwelling house of another, in the nighttime, with intent to commit a felony therein, whether the felonious purpose be accomplished or not. Wharton. Burrill. Note: By statute law in some of the United States, burglary
  • CHIMNEY-PIECE
    A decorative construction around the opning of a fireplace.
  • CONSTITUTIVE
    1. Tending or assisting to constitute or compose; elemental; essential. An ingredient and constitutive part of every virtue. Barrow. 2. Having power to enact, establish, or create; instituting; determining. Sir W. Hamilton.
  • CHIMNEY
    A body of ore, usually of elongated form, extending downward in a vein. Raymond. Chimney board, a board or screen used to close a fireplace; a fireboard. -- Chimney cap, a device to improve the draught of a chimney, by presenting an exit aperture
  • CRIME
    which is subjected to such a decision, charge, fault, crime, fr. the 1. Any violation of law, either divine or human; an omission of a duty commanded, or the commission of an act forbidden by law. 2. Gross violation of human law, in distinction
  • CRIMELESS
    Free from crime; innocent. Shak.
  • PERTAIN
    stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
  • CONSTITUTIVELY
    In a constitutive manner.
  • CONSTITUTIONALITY
    1. The quality or state of being constitutional, or inherent in the natural frame. 2. The state of being consistent with the constitution or frame of government, or of being authorized by its provisions. Burke. Constitutionalities, bottomless
  • CONSTITUTIONIST
    One who adheres to the constitution of the country. Bolingbroke.
  • ENTRYNG
    Am entrance. So great an entryng and so large. Chaucer.
  • CONSTITUTIONAL
    1. Belonging to, or inherent in, the constitution, or in the structure of body or mind; as, a constitutional infirmity; constitutional ardor or dullness. 2. In accordance with, or authorized by, the constitution of a state or a society;
  • BURGLARIOUS
    Pertaining to burglary; constituting the crime of burglary. To come down a chimney is held a burglarious entry. Blackstone.
  • CONSTITUTIONALISM
    The theory, principles, or authority of constitutional government; attachment or adherene to a constitution or constitutional government. Carlyle.
  • CONSTITUTIONALLY
    1. In accordance with the constitution or natural disposition of the mind or body; naturally; as, he was constitutionally timid. The English were constitutionally humane. Hallam. 2. In accordance with the constitution or fundamental law; legally;
  • ENTRY
    The exhibition or depositing of a ship's papers at the customhouse, to procure license to land goods; or the giving an account of a ship's cargo to the officer of the customs, and obtaining his permission to land the goods. See Enter, v. t., 8,
  • CENTRY
    See GRAY
  • GENTRY
    gentrise, and OF. gentelise, genterise, E. gentilesse, also OE. 1. Birth; condition; rank by birth. "Pride of gentrie." Chaucer. She conquers him by high almighty Jove, By knighthood, gentry, and sweet friendship's oath. Shak. 2. People
  • SERPENTRY
    1. A winding like a serpent's. 2. A place inhabited or infested by serpents.
  • ARGENTRY
    Silver plate or vessels. Bowls of frosted argentry. Howell.
  • FALSICRIMEN
    The crime of falsifying. Note: This term in the Roman law included not only forgery, but every species of fraud and deceit. It never has been used in so extensive a sense in modern common law, in which its predominant significance is forgery, though
  • OUTSENTRY
    A sentry who guards the entrance or approach to a place; an outguard.
  • STUDENTRY
    A body of students.
  • COVENTRY
    A town in the county of Warwick, England. To send to Coventry, to exclude from society; to shut out from social intercourse, as for ungentlemanly conduct. -- Coventry blue, blue thread of a superior dye, made at Coventry, England, and

 

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