Word Meanings - PROVISORSHIP - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The office or position of a provisor. J. Webster.
Related words: (words related to PROVISORSHIP)
- OFFICEHOLDER
An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman. - PROVISORILY
In a provisory manner; conditionally; subject to a proviso; as, to admit a doctrine provisorily. Sir W. Hamilton. - WEBSTERITE
A hydrous sulphate of alumina occurring in white reniform masses. - PROVISORSHIP
The office or position of a provisor. J. Webster. - OFFICE WIRE
Copper wire with a strong but light insulation, used in wiring houses, etc. - PROVISORY
1. Of the nature of a proviso; containing a proviso or condition; conditional; as, a provisory clause. 2. Making temporary provision; provisional. - OFFICER
Specifically, a commissioned officer, in distinction from a warrant officer. Field officer, General officer, etc. See under Field, General. etc. -- Officer of the day , the officer who, on a given day, has charge for that day of the quard, - POSITION
A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; -- called also the rule of trial and error. Angle of position , the angle which any line makes with another fixed line, specifically with a circle of declination. -- Double position , - POSITIONAL
Of or pertaining to position. Ascribing unto plants positional operations. Sir T. Browne. - OFFICE
The apartments or outhouses in which the domestics discharge the duties attached to the service of a house, as kitchens, pantries, stables, etc. As for the offices, let them stand at distance. Bacon. (more info) 1. That which a person does, either - WEBSTER
A weaver; originally, a female weaver. Brathwait. - PROVISOR
One who procures or receives a papal provision. See Provision, (more info) 1. One who provides; a purveyor. "The chief provisor of our horse." Ford. The purveyor, steward, or treasurer of a religious house. Cowell. One who is regularly inducted - POST OFFICE
See POST - APPOSITION
The state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first. Growth by apposition , a mode of growth characteristic - 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. - OPPOSITIONIST
One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed. - 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. - EXPOSITION
1. The act of exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view. 2. The act of expounding or of laying open the sense or meaning of an author, or a passage; explanation; interpretation; the sense put upon a passage; a law, or - DECOMPOSITION
1. The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of - SEPOSITION
The act of setting aside, or of giving up. Jer. Taylor. - CIRCUMPOSITION
The act of placing in a circle, or round about, or the state of being so placed. Evelyn. - ANTEPOSITION
The placing of a before another, which, by ordinary rules, ought to follow it. - PRESUPPOSITION
1. The act of presupposing; an antecedent implication; presumption. 2. That which is presupposed; a previous supposition or surmise. - DEPOSITION
The act of laying down one's testimony in writing; also, testimony laid or taken down in writting, under oath or affirmation, befor some competent officer, and in reply to interrogatories and cross-interrogatories. Syn. -- Deposition, Affidavit. - MISEXPOSITION
Wrong exposition. - INTERPOSITION
insertion, fr. interponere, interpositum: cf. F. interposition. See 1. The act of interposing, or the state of being interposed; a being, placing, or coming between; mediation. 2. The thing interposed. - MALPOSITION
A wrong position.