Word Meanings - CANDIDATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
One who offers himself, or is put forward by others, as a suitable person or an aspirant or contestant for an office, privilege, or honor; as, a candidate for the office of governor; a candidate for holy orders; a candidate for scholastic honors.
Additional info about word: CANDIDATE
One who offers himself, or is put forward by others, as a suitable person or an aspirant or contestant for an office, privilege, or honor; as, a candidate for the office of governor; a candidate for holy orders; a candidate for scholastic honors. (more info) office in Rome were clothed in a white toga.) fr. candidatus clothed
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- HONORABLE
1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an - PERSONNEL
The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel. - PERSONIFICATION
A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying; - OFFICEHOLDER
An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman. - HONORABLENESS
1. The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction. 2. Conformity to the principles of honor, probity, or moral rectitude; fairness; uprightness; reputableness. - PERSONIZE
To personify. Milton has personized them. J. Richardson. - PERSONATE
To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. In fable, hymn, or song so personating Their gods ridiculous. Milton. - GOVERNORSHIP
The office of a governor. - PERSONATOR
One who personates. "The personators of these actions." B. Jonson. - CANDIDATESHIP
Candidacy. - FORWARDLY
Eagerly; hastily; obtrusively. - OFFICE WIRE
Copper wire with a strong but light insulation, used in wiring houses, etc. - HONOR
1. Esteem due or paid to worth; high estimation; respect; consideration; reverence; veneration; manifestation of respect or reverence. A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country. Matt. xiii. - PERSONAL
Denoting person; as, a personal pronoun. Personal action , a suit or action by which a man claims a debt or personal duty, or damages in lieu of it; or wherein he claims satisfaction in damages for an injury to his person or property, - PERSONIFY
1. To regard, treat, or represent as a person; to represent as a rational being. The poets take the liberty of personifying inanimate things. Chesterfield. 2. To be the embodiment or personification of; to impersonate; as, he personifies the law. - HONORARY
1. Done as a sign or evidence of honor; as, honorary services. Macaulay. 2. Conferring honor, or intended merely to confer honor without emolument; as, an honorary degree. "Honorary arches." Addison. 3. Holding a title or place without rendering - PERSONIFIER
One who personifies. - FORWARD
An agreement; a covenant; a promise. Tell us a tale anon, as forward is. Chaucer. - PRIVILEGE
See CHILDREN (more info) law against or in favor of an individual; privus private + lex, 1. A peculiar benefit, advantage, or favor; a right or immunity not enjoyed by others or by all; special enjoyment - PRIVILEGED
Invested with a privilege; enjoying a peculiar right, advantage, or immunity. Privileged communication. A communication which can not be disclosed without the consent of the party making it, -- such as those made by a client to his - POST OFFICE
See POST - BOOKING OFFICE
1. An office where passengers, baggage, etc., are registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship. 2. An office where passage tickets are sold. - UNIPERSONAL
Used in only one person, especially only in the third person, as some verbs; impersonal. (more info) 1. Existing as one, and only one, person; as, a unipersonal God. - CROWN OFFICE
The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases. Burrill. - UNIPERSONALIST
One who believes that the Deity is unipersonal. - TRIPERSONALITY
The state of existing as three persons in one Godhead; trinity. - IMPERSONATION; IMPERSONIFICATION
The act of impersonating; personification; investment with personality; representation in a personal form. - TRIPERSONAL
Consisting of three persons. Milton. - DISHONOR
The nonpayment or nonacceptance of commercial paper by the party on whom it is drawn. Syn. -- Disgrace; ignominy; shame; censure; reproach; opprobrium. (more info) deshonur, F. déshonneur; pref. des- + honor, honur, F. 1. Lack of honor;