Word Meanings - GARNISHMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Ornament; embellishment; decoration. Sir H. Wotton. Warning, or legal notice, to one to appear and give information to the court on any matter. Warning to a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached, not to pay the

Additional info about word: GARNISHMENT

1. Ornament; embellishment; decoration. Sir H. Wotton. Warning, or legal notice, to one to appear and give information to the court on any matter. Warning to a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached, not to pay the money or deliver the goods to the defendant, but to appear in court and give information as garnishee. 3. A fee. See Garnish, n., 4.

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  The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever.
• HANDSPRING
  A somersault made with the assistance of the hands placed upon the ground.
• 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;
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• LEGALITY
  1. The state or quality of being letter of the law.
• ORNAMENTAL
  Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing. Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles. Sir T. Browne.
• APPEAR
  appear + parto come forth, to be visible; prob. from the same root as 1. To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible. And God . . . said, Let . . . the dry land appear. Gen. i. 9. 2. To come before the public; as, a great
• HANDSOMELY
  Carefully; in shipshape style. (more info) 1. In a handsome manner.
• NOTICE
  1. The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note. How ready is envy to mingle with the notices we take of other persons ! I. Watts. 2. Intelligence, by whatever means communicated; knowledge
• PERSONIZE
  To personify. Milton has personized them. J. Richardson.
• PERSONATE
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• COURTESAN
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• COURT-CUPBOARD
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• COURTBRED
  Bred, or educated, at court; polished; courtly.
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  A proceeding in the nature of a prosecution for some offens against the government, instituted and prosecuted, really or nominally, by some authorized public officer on behalt of the government. It differs from an indictment in criminal
• LEGALIZE
  To interpret or apply in a legal spirit. (more info) 1. To make legal.
• DISAPPEARING
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  To warn beforehand; to give previous warning, admonition, information, or notice to; to caution in advance. We were forewarned of your coming. Shak.
• REATTACHMENT
  The act of reattaching; a second attachment.