Word Meanings - MAJORAT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Property, landed or funded, so attached to a title of honor as to descend with it. (more info) 1. The right of succession to property according to age; -- so termed in some of the countries of continental Europe.

Related words: (words related to MAJORAT)

• RIGHT-RUNNING
  Straight; direct.
• TITLELESS
  Not having a title or name; without legitimate title. "A titleless tyrant." Chaucer.
• LANDLOCK
  To inclose, or nearly inclose, as a harbor or a vessel, with land.
• FUNDABLE
  Capable of being funded, or converted into a fund; convertible into bonds.
• TITLED
  Having or bearing a title.
• LANDSTHING
  See BELOW
• HONORABLE
  1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an
• TERMER
  One who has an estate for a term of years or for life. (more info) 1. One who resorted to London during the law term only, in order to
• LANDSKIP
  A landscape. Straight my eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landskip round it measures. Milton.
• TERMONOLOGY
  Terminology.
• CONTINENTAL SYSTEM
  The system of commercial blockade aiming to exclude England from commerce with the Continent instituted by the Berlin decree, which Napoleon I. issued from Berlin Nov. 21, 1806, declaring the British Isles to be in a state of blockade, and British
• TITLER
  A large truncated cone of refined sugar.
• RIGHTEOUSNESS
  The state of being right with God; justification; the work of Christ, which is the ground justification. There are two kinds of Christian righteousness: the one without us, which we have by imputation; the other in us, which consisteth of faith,
• TERMINOLOGY
  1. The doctrine of terms; a theory of terms or appellations; a treatise on terms. 2. The terms actually used in any business, art, science, or the like; nomenclature; technical terms; as, the terminology of chemistry. The barbarous effect produced
• FUND
  The stock of a national debt; public securities; evidences of money lent to government, for which interest is paid at prescribed intervals; -- called also public funds. 4. An invested sum, whose income is devoted to a specific object; as, the fund
• LANDSMAN
  A sailor on his first voyage. (more info) 1. One who lives on the land; -- opposed to seaman.
• FUNDLESS
  Destitute of funds.
• HONORABLENESS
  1. The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction. 2. Conformity to the principles of honor, probity, or moral rectitude; fairness; uprightness; reputableness.
• ACCORDANCY
  Accordance. Paley.
• CONTINENTAL GLACIER
  A broad ice sheet resting on a plain or plateau and spreading outward from a central névé, or region of accumulation.
• GREENLANDER
  A native of Greenland.
• BRIGHT
  See I
• ROSLAND
  heathy land; land full of heather; moorish or watery land.
• ENGARLAND
  To encircle with a garland, or with garlands. Sir P. Sidney.
• GLANDULAR
  Containing or supporting glands; consisting of glands; pertaining to glands.
• MALANDERS
  A scurfy eruption in the bend of the knee of the fore leg of a horse. See Sallenders.
• INTERMURE
  To wall in; to inclose. Ford.
• COWPER'S GLANDS
  Two small glands discharging into the male urethra.
• INTERMEDDLE
  To meddle with the affairs of others; to meddle officiously; to interpose or interfere improperly; to mix or meddle with. The practice of Spain hath been, by war and by conditions of treaty, to intermeddle with foreign states. Bacon. Syn. -- To
• GARLANDLESS
  Destitute of a garland. Shelley.
• HEADLAND
  1. A cape; a promontory; a point of land projecting into the sea or other expanse of water. "Sow the headland with wheat." Shak. 2. A ridge or strip of unplowed at the ends of furrows, or near a fence. Tusser.
• GLANDULOSITY
  Quality of being glandulous; a collection of glands. Sir T. Browne.
• BLANDLY
  In a bland manner; mildly; suavely.