Word Meanings - DEFALCATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A lopping off; a diminution; abatement; deficit. Specifically: Reduction of a claim by deducting a counterclaim; set-off. Abbott. 2. That which is lopped off, diminished, or abated. 3. An abstraction of money, etc., by an officer or agent

Related words: (words related to DEFALCATION)

• DEDUCTIVE
  Of or pertaining to deduction; capable of being deduced from premises; deducible. All knowledge of causes is deductive. Glanvill. Notions and ideas . . . used in a deductive process. Whewell.
• ABATVOIX
  The sounding-board over a pulpit or rostrum.
• DEDUCTIVELY
  By deduction; by way of inference; by consequence. Sir T. Browne.
• ABATER
  One who, or that which, abates.
• SPECIFICALLY
  In a specific manner.
• DIMINISHER
  One who, or that which, diminishes anything. Clerke .
• ABATE
  1. To decrease, or become less in strength or violence; as, pain abates, a storm abates. The fury of Glengarry . . . rapidly abated. Macaulay. 2. To be defeated, or come to naught; to fall through; to fail; as, a writ abates. To abate
• MONEYER
  1. A person who deals in money; banker or broker. 2. An authorized coiner of money. Sir M. Hale. The Company of Moneyers, the officials who formerly coined the money of Great Britain, and who claimed certain prescriptive rights and privileges.
• LOPPER
  One who lops or cuts off.
• ABSTRACTION
  The act process of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others; analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• MONEYAGE
  1. A tax paid to the first two Norman kings of England to prevent them from debashing the coin. Hume. 2. Mintage; coinage.
• MONEY
  fr. L. moneta. See Mint place where coin is made, Mind, and cf. 1. A piece of metal, as gold, silver, copper, etc., coined, or stamped, and issued by the sovereign authority as a medium of exchange in financial transactions between citizens and
• CLAIMABLE
  Capable of being claimed.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• ABATTOIR
  A public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc.
• AGENT
  1. One who exerts power, or has the power to act; an actor. Heaven made us agents, free to good or ill. Dryden. 2. One who acts for, or in the place of, another, by authority from him; one intrusted with the business of another; a substitute; a
• ABSTRACTIONAL
  Pertaining to abstraction.
• DIMINISHABLE
  Capable of being diminished or lessened.
• ABATEMENT
  A mark of dishonor on an escutcheon. (more info) 1. The act of abating, or the state of being abated; a lessening, diminution, or reduction; removal or putting an end to; as, the abatement of a nuisance is the suppression thereof. 2. The amount
• DIMINISH
  To make smaller by a half step; to make less than minor; as, a diminished seventh. 4. To take away; to subtract. Neither shall ye diminish aught from it. Deut. iv. 2. Diminished column, one whose upper diameter is less than the lower.
• RECLAIMABLE
  That may be reclaimed.
• INTERAGENT
  An intermediate agent.
• REDIMINISH
  To diminish again.
• RECLAIMER
  One who reclaims.
• ACCLAIM
  1. To applaud. "A glad acclaiming train." Thomson. 2. To declare by acclamations. While the shouting crowd Acclaims thee king of traitors. Smollett. 3. To shout; as, to acclaim my joy.
• RABATINE
  A collar or cape. Sir W. Scott.
• SLOPPINESS
  The quality or state of being sloppy; muddiness.
• RECLAIM
  To claim back; to demand the return of as a right; to attempt to recover possession of. A tract of land snatched from an element perpetually reclaiming its prior occupancy. W. Coxe.