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The office or condition of a penitentiary of the papal court. Wood.

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  • OFFICEHOLDER
    An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
  • CONDITIONALITY
    The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms.
  • PAPALITY
    The papacy. Ld. Berners. Milton.
  • CONDITIONAL
    Expressing a condition or supposition; as, a conditional word, mode, or tense. A conditional proposition is one which asserts the dependence of one categorical proposition on another. Whately. The words hypothetical and conditional may be . . .
  • COURTESAN
    A woman who prostitutes herself for hire; a prostitute; a harlot. Lasciviously decked like a courtesan. Sir H. Wotton. (more info) courtier, It. cortigiano; or directly fr. It. cortigiana, or Sp.
  • COURT TENNIS
    See TENNIS
  • COURT-CUPBOARD
    A movable sideboard or buffet, on which plate and other articles of luxury were displayed on special ocasions. A way with the joint stools, remove the court-cupboard, look to the plate. Shak.
  • COURTEPY
    A short coat of coarse cloth. Full threadbare was his overeste courtepy. Chaucer.
  • COURTBRED
    Bred, or educated, at court; polished; courtly.
  • OFFICE WIRE
    Copper wire with a strong but light insulation, used in wiring houses, etc.
  • COURTESANSHIP
    Harlotry.
  • COURT-MARTIAL
    A court consisting of military or naval officers, for the trial of one belonging to the army or navy, or of offenses against military or naval law.
  • CONDITIONATE
    Conditional. Barak's answer is faithful, though conditionate. Bp. Hall.
  • COURTLIKE
    After the manner of a court; elegant; polite; courtly.
  • COURTEOUSNESS
    The quality of being courteous; politeness; courtesy.
  • PENITENTIARYSHIP
    The office or condition of a penitentiary of the papal court. Wood.
  • COURT-BARON
    An inferior court of civil jurisdiction, attached to a manor, and held by the steward; a baron's court; -- now fallen into disuse.
  • COURTELLE
    a wool-like fabric.
  • CONDITIONLY
    Conditionally.
  • CONDITION
    A clause in a contract, or agreement, which has for its object to suspend, to defeat, or in some way to modify, the principal obligation; or, in case of a will, to suspend, revoke, or modify a devise or bequest. It is also the case of
  • POST OFFICE
    See POST
  • BOOKING OFFICE
    1. An office where passengers, baggage, etc., are registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship. 2. An office where passage tickets are sold.
  • 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.
  • ANTIPAPAL
    Opposed to the pope or to popery. Milton.
  • OUTCOURT
    An outer or exterior court. The skirts and outcourts of heaven. South.
  • INCONDITIONAL
    Unconditional. Sir T. Browne.
  • UNCONDITIONAL
    Not conditional limited, or conditioned; made without condition; absolute; unreserved; as, an unconditional surrender. O, pass not, Lord, an absolute decree, Or bind thy sentence unconditional. Dryden. -- Un`con*di"tion*al*ly, adv.
  • UNCONDITIONED
    Not subject to condition or limitations; infinite; absolute; hence, inconceivable; incogitable. Sir W. Hamilton. The unconditioned , all that which is inconceivable and beyond the realm of reason; whatever is inconceivable under logical forms or

 

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