Word Meanings - PENITENTIARYSHIP - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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