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1. The act of publishing or making known; notification to the people at large, either by words, writing, or printing; proclamation; divulgation; promulgation; as, the publication of the law at Mount Sinai; the publication of the gospel;

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1. The act of publishing or making known; notification to the people at large, either by words, writing, or printing; proclamation; divulgation; promulgation; as, the publication of the law at Mount Sinai; the publication of the gospel; the publication of statutes or edicts. 2. The act of offering a book, pamphlet, engraving, etc., to the public by sale or by gratuitous distribution. The publication of these papers was not owing to our folly, but that of others. Swift. 3. That which is published or made known; especially, any book, pamphlet, etc., offered for sale or to public notice; as, a daily or monthly publication. 4. An act done in public. His jealousy . . . attends the business, the recreations, the publications, and retirements of every man. Jer. Taylor. Publication of a libel , such an exhibition of a libel as brings it to the notice of at least one person other than the person libeled. -- Publication of a will , the delivery of a will, as his own, by a testator to witnesses who attest it.

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  • ADVICE
    Counseling to perform a specific illegal act. Wharton. Advice boat, a vessel employed to carry dispatches or to reconnoiter; a dispatch boat. -- To take advice. To accept advice. To consult with another or others. Syn. -- Counsel; suggestion;
  • SLANDEROUS
    1. Given or disposed to slander; uttering slander. "Slanderous tongue." Shak. 2. Embodying or containing slander; calumnious; as, slanderous words, speeches, or reports. -- Slan"der*ous*ly, adv. -- Slan"der*ous*ness, n.
  • TRADUCEMENT
    The act of traducing; misrepresentation; ill-founded censure; defamation; calumny. Shak.
  • APPREHENSION
    1. The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension. Sir T. Browne. 2. The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped. 3. The act of grasping with the
  • SUPPRESSOR
    One who suppresses.
  • TIDINGS
    Account of what has taken place, and was not before known; news. I shall make my master glad with these tidings. Shak. Full well the busy whisper, circling round, Conveyed the dismal tidings when he frowned. Goldsmith. Note: Although tidings is
  • MISREPORT
    To report erroneously; to give an incorrect account of. Locke.
  • UNDERSTANDINGLY
    In an understanding manner; intelligibly; with full knowledge or comprehension; intelligently; as, to vote upon a question understandingly; to act or judge understandingly. The gospel may be neglected, but in can not be understandingly disbelieved.
  • INTELLECTUALIST
    1. One who overrates the importance of the understanding. Bacon. 2. One who accepts the doctrine of intellectualism.
  • LAMPOONER
    The writer of a lampoon. "Libelers, lampooners, and pamphleteers." Tatler.
  • NOTICE
    1. The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note. How ready is envy to mingle with the notices we take of other persons ! I. Watts. 2. Intelligence, by whatever means communicated; knowledge
  • INTELLECT
    The part or faculty of the human soul by which it knows, as distinguished from the power to feel and to will; sometimes, the capacity for higher forms of knowledge, as distinguished from the power to perceive objects in their relations; the power
  • CONCEPTIONAL
    Pertaining to conception.
  • PUBLICATION
    1. The act of publishing or making known; notification to the people at large, either by words, writing, or printing; proclamation; divulgation; promulgation; as, the publication of the law at Mount Sinai; the publication of the gospel;
  • LIBELLEE
    The party against whom a libel has been filed; -- corresponding to defendant in a common law action. The defendant in an action of libel.
  • LIBELANT
    One who libels; one who institutes a suit in an ecclesiastical or admiralty court. Cranch.
  • INTELLIGENCER
    One who, or that which, sends or conveys intelligence or news; a messenger. All the intriguers in foreign politics, all the spies, and all the intelligencers . . . acted solely upon that principle. Burke.
  • INFORMATION
    A proceeding in the nature of a prosecution for some offens against the government, instituted and prosecuted, really or nominally, by some authorized public officer on behalt of the government. It differs from an indictment in criminal
  • SLANDER
    Formerly, defamation generally, whether oral or written; in modern usage, defamation by words spoken; utterance of false, malicious, and defamatory words, tending to the damage and derogation of another; calumny. See the Note under Defamation.
  • INTELLECTUAL
    1. Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc. Logic is to teach us the right use of our reason or intellectual powers. I. Watts. 2. Endowed with intellect; having the power of understanding;
  • SUPERCONCEPTION
    Superfetation. Sir T. Browne.
  • PREKNOWLEDGE
    Prior knowledge.
  • INSUPPRESSIBLE
    That can not be suppressed or concealed; irrepressible. Young. -- In`sup*press"i*bly, adv.
  • PREAPPREHENSION
    An apprehension or opinion formed before examination or knowledge. Sir T. Browne.
  • ACKNOWLEDGE
    1. To of or admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in; as, to acknowledge the being of a God. I acknowledge my transgressions. Ps. li. 3. For ends generally acknowledged to be good. Macaulay. 2. To own

 

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