Word Meanings - IMPARLANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Mutual discourse; conference. Time given to a party to talk or converse with his opponent, originally with the object of effecting, if possible, an amicable adjustment of the suit. The actual object, however, has long been merely to

Additional info about word: IMPARLANCE

1. Mutual discourse; conference. Time given to a party to talk or converse with his opponent, originally with the object of effecting, if possible, an amicable adjustment of the suit. The actual object, however, has long been merely to obtain further time to plead, answer to the allegations of the opposite party. Hence, the delay or continuance of a suit. Note: Imparlance and continuance by imparlance have been abolished in England. Wharton .

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• CONFERENCE
  A stated meeting of preachers and others, invested with authority to take cognizance of ecclesiastical matters. 6. A voluntary association of Congregational churches of a district; the district in which such churches are. Conference meeting,
• OBJECTIVENESS
  Objectivity. Is there such a motion or objectiveness of external bodies, which produceth light Sir M. Hale
• PARTY
  1. A part or portion. "The most party of the time." Chaucer. 2. A number of persons united in opinion or action, as distinguished from, or opposed to, the rest of a community or association; esp., one of the parts into which a people is divided
• ACTUALIZE
  To make actual; to realize in action. Coleridge.
• MERELY
  1. Purely; unmixedly; absolutely. Ulysses was to force forth his access, Though merely naked. Chapman. 2. Not otherwise than; simply; barely; only. Prize not your life for other ends Than merely to obige your friends. Swift. Syn. -- Solely; simply;
• OBJECTIST
  One who adheres to, or is skilled in, the objective philosophy. Ed. Rev.
• EFFECTUOSE; EFFECTUOUS
  Effective. B. Jonson.
• OBJECT
  before, to oppose; ob + jacere to throw: cf. objecter. See 1. To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose. Of less account some knight thereto object, Whose loss so great and harmful can not prove. Fairfax. Some strong
• OBJECTIVATE
  To objectify.
• ACTUAL
  1. Involving or comprising action; active. Her walking and other actual performances. Shak. Let your holy and pious intention be actual; that is . . . by a special prayer or action, . . . given to God. Jer. Taylor. 2. Existing in act or reality;
• DISCOURSE
  fr. discurrere, discursum, to run to and fro, to discourse; dis- + 1. The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning; range
• PARTY-COLORED; PARTI-COLORED
  Colored with different tints; variegated; as, a party-colored flower. "Parti-colored lambs." Shak.
• OBJECTLESS
  Having no object; purposeless.
• DISCOURSER
  1. One who discourse; a narrator; a speaker; an haranguer. In his conversation he was the most clear discourser. Milward. 2. The writer of a treatise or dissertation. Philologers and critical discoursers. Sir T. Browne.
• AMICABLENESS
  The quality of being amicable; amicability.
• OBJECTIVITY
  The state, quality, or relation of being objective; character of the object or of the objective. The calm, the cheerfulness, the disinterested objectivity have disappeared . M. Arnold.
• EFFECTOR
  An effecter. Derham.
• PARTYISM
  Devotion to party.
• ACTUALITY
  The state of being actual; reality; as, the actuality of God's nature. South.
• CONVERSELY
  In a converse manner; with change of order or relation; reciprocally. J. S. Mill.
• ABORIGINALLY
  Primarily.
• MISADJUSTMENT
  Wrong adjustment; unsuitable arrangement.
• POURPARTY
  A division; a divided share. To make pourparty, to divide and apportion lands previously held in common.
• COMPOSSIBLE
  Able to exist with another thing; consistent. Chillingworth.
• INEFFECTIVENESS
  Quality of being ineffective.
• READJUSTMENT
  A second adjustment; a new or different adjustment.
• PURPARTY
  A share, part, or portion of an estate allotted to a coparcener. I am forced to eat all the game of your purparties, as well as my own thirds. Walpole.