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Word Meanings - INSTALL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

OHG. stal a place, stall, G. stall, akin to E. stall: cf. It. 1. To set in a seat; to give a place to; establish in a place. She installed her guest hospitably by the fireside. Sir W. Scott. 2. To place in an office, rank, or order; to invest

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OHG. stal a place, stall, G. stall, akin to E. stall: cf. It. 1. To set in a seat; to give a place to; establish in a place. She installed her guest hospitably by the fireside. Sir W. Scott. 2. To place in an office, rank, or order; to invest with any charge by the usual ceremonies; to instate; to induct; as, to install an ordained minister as pastor of a church; to install a college president. Unworthily Thou wast installed in that high degree. Shak.

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  • CROWN SIDE
    See OFFICE
  • CROWNED
    1. Having or wearing a crown; surmounted, invested, or adorned, with a crown, wreath, garland, etc.; honored; rewarded; completed; consummated; perfected. "Crowned with one crest." Shak. "Crowned with conquest." Milton. With surpassing
  • CROWNER
    A coroner. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, crowns. Beau. & FL. 2. Etym:
  • INAUGURATE
    Invested with office; inaugurated. Drayton. (more info) omens from the flight of birds (before entering upon any important undertaking); hence, to consecrate, inaugurate, or install, with such
  • CROWNLAND
    In Austria-Hungary, one of the provinces, or largest administrative divisions of the monarchy; as, the crownland of Lower Austria.
  • 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.
  • CROWN-SAW
    A saw in the form of a hollow cylinder, with teeth on the end or edge, and operated by a rotative motion. Note: The trephine was the first of the class of crownsaws. Knight.
  • CROWNLESS
    Without a crown.
  • CROWN COLONY
    A colony of the British Empire not having an elective magistracy or a parliament, but governed by a chief magistrate appointed by the Crown, with executive councilors nominated by him and not elected by the people.
  • COMMENCE
    1. To have a beginning or origin; to originate; to start; to begin. Here the anthem doth commence. Shak. His heaven commences ere the world be past. Goldsmith. 2. To begin to be, or to act as. We commence judges ourselves. Coleridge. 3. To take
  • INSTALL
    OHG. stal a place, stall, G. stall, akin to E. stall: cf. It. 1. To set in a seat; to give a place to; establish in a place. She installed her guest hospitably by the fireside. Sir W. Scott. 2. To place in an office, rank, or order; to invest
  • INITIATE
    1. To introduce by a first act; to make a beginning with; to set afoot; to originate; to commence; to begin or enter upon. How are changes of this sort to be initiated I. Taylor. 2. To acquaint with the beginnings; to instruct in the rudiments
  • INSTALLMENT
    1. The act of installing; installation. Take oaths from all kings and magistrates at their installment, to do impartial justice by law. Milton. 2. The seat in which one is placed. The several chairs of order, look, you scour; . . . Each
  • CROWNPIECE
    A piece or part which passes over the head, as in a bridle. A coin See Crown, 19.
  • CROWN-POST
    See KING-POST
  • CROWNLET
    A coronet. Sir W. Scott.
  • COMMENCEMENT
    1. The first existence of anything; act or fact of commencing; rise; origin; beginnig; start. The time of Henry VII . . . nearly coincides with the commencement of what is termed "modern history." 2. The day when degrees are conferred by colleges
  • CROWN-IMPERIAL
    A spring-blooming plant of the Lily family, having at the top of the stalk a cluster of pendent bell- shaped flowers surmounted with a tuft of green leaves.
  • CROWNET
    1. A coronet. P. Whitehead. 2. The ultimate end and result of an undertaking; a chief end. O this false soul of Egypt! this grave charm . . . . Whose bosom was my crownet, my chief end. Shak.
  • CROWN
    p. p. of Crow.
  • UNCROWN
    To deprive of a crown; to take the crown from; hence, to discrown; to dethrone. He hath done me wrong, And therefore I'll uncrown him ere't be long. Shak.
  • DISCROWN
    To deprive of a crown. The end had crowned the work; it not unreasonably discrowned the workman. Motley.
  • TRIPLE-CROWNED
    Having three crowns; wearing the triple crown, as the pope.
  • REINAUGURATE
    To inaugurate anew.
  • COPPLE-CROWN
    A created or high-topped crown or head. "Like the copple-crown the lapwing has." T. Randolph. -- Cop"ple-crowned`, a.

 

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