Word Meanings - EXTRADITION - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The surrender or delivery of an alleged criminal by one State or sovereignty to another having jurisdiction to try charge.
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- HAVENED
Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats. - STATESMANLIKE
Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman. - STATEHOOD
The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood. - HAVENER
A harbor master. - CHARGEANT
Burdensome; troublesome. Chaucer. - ANOTHER-GUESS
Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot. - HAVELOCK
A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke. - CHARGEABLE
1. That may be charged, laid, imposed, or imputes; as, a duty chargeable on iron; a fault chargeable on a man. 2. Subject to be charge or accused; liable or responsible; as, revenues chargeable with a claim; a man chargeable with murder. 3. Serving - ALLEGIANT
Loyal. Shak. - ALLEGORIC; ALLEGORICAL
Belonging to, or consisting of, allegory; of the nature of an allegory; describing by resemblances; figurative. "An allegoric tale." Falconer. "An allegorical application." Pope. Allegorical being . . . that kind of language which says one thing, - STATE SOCIALISM
A form of socialism, esp. advocated in Germany, which, while retaining the right of private property and the institution of the family and other features of the present form of the state, would intervene by various measures intended to - CHARGE
1. To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill. A carte that charged was with hay. Chaucer. The charging of children's memories with rules. Locke. 2. To lay on or impose, as a task, duty, or trust; to command, instruct, or - ALLEGORIZATION
The act of turning into allegory, or of understanding in an allegorical sense. - CHARGE D'AFFAIRES
A diplomatic representative, or minister of an inferior grade, accredited by the government of one state to the minister of foreign affairs of another; also, a substitute, ad interim, for an ambassador or minister plenipotentiary. - HAVE
haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2. - ALLEGORIZER
One who allegorizes, or turns things into allegory; an allegorist. - ALLEGORIST
One who allegorizes; a writer of allegory. Hume. - HAVENAGE
Harbor dues; port dues. - STATECRAFT
The art of conducting state affairs; state management; statesmanship. - ALLEGE
prop. to free from legal difficulties, fr. an assumed LL. exlitigare; L. ex + litigare to quarrel, sue . The word was 1. To bring forward with positiveness; to declare; to affirm; to assert; as, to allege a fact. 2. To cite or quote; as, to allege - CREBRICOSTATE
Marked with closely set ribs or ridges. - SAGEBRUSH STATE
Nevada; -- a nickname. - OLD LINE STATE
Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line. - ENSTATE
See INSTATE - MISCHARGE
To charge erroneously, as in account. -- n. - KATASTATE
A substance formed by a katabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See Katabolic. - ENCHARGE
To charge ; to impose upon. His countenance would express the spirit and the passion of the part he was encharged with. Jeffrey. - BAYOU STATE
Mississippi; -- a nickname, from its numerous bayous. - REESTATE
To reëstablish. Walis. - REDELIVERY
1. Act of delivering back. 2. A second or new delivery or liberation. - BLACKWATER STATE
Nebraska; -- a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil. - ARISTATE
Having a pointed, beardlike process, as the glumes of wheat; awned. Gray. - BICOSTATE
Having two principal ribs running longitudinally, as a leaf. - TRIPLICOSTATE
Three-ribbed.