Word Meanings - SECUNDO-GENITURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A right of inheritance belonging to a second son; a property or possession so inherited. The kingdom of Naples . . . was constituted a secundo-geniture of Spain. Bancroft.

Related words: (words related to SECUNDO-GENITURE)

• RIGHT-RUNNING
  Straight; direct.
• SECOND
  1. Immediately following the first; next to the first in order of place or time; hence, occuring again; another; other. And he slept and dreamed the second time. Gen. xli. 5. 2. Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity,
• INHERITABILITY
  The quality of being inheritable or descendible to heirs. Jefferson.
• 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,
• CONSTITUTIONALIST
  One who advocates a constitutional form of government; a constitutionalist.
• INHERITOR
  One who inherits; an heir. Born inheritors of the dignity. Milton.
• CONSTITUTION
  1. The act or process of constituting; the action of enacting, establishing, or appointing; enactment; establishment; formation. 2. The state of being; that form of being, or structure and connection of parts, which constitutes and characterizes
• POSSESSIONER
  1. A possessor; a property holder. "Possessioners of riches." E. Hall. Having been of old freemen and possessioners. Sir P. Sidney. 2. An invidious name for a member of any religious community endowed with property in lands, buildings, etc.,
• INHERITRIX
  See SHAK
• SECUNDO-GENITURE
  A right of inheritance belonging to a second son; a property or possession so inherited. The kingdom of Naples . . . was constituted a secundo-geniture of Spain. Bancroft.
• RIGHT-ANGLED
  Containing a right angle or right angles; as, a right-angled triangle.
• SECOND-CLASS
  Of the rank or degree below the best highest; inferior; second- rate; as, a second-class house; a second-class passage.
• RIGHTEOUS
  Doing, or according with, that which is right; yielding to all their due; just; equitable; especially, free from wrong, guilt, or sin; holy; as, a righteous man or act; a righteous retribution. Fearless in his righteous cause. Milton.
• INHERITABLY
  By inheritance. Sherwood.
• RIGHTEN
  To do justice to. Relieve the opressed. Isa. i. 17.
• RIGHT-LINED
  Formed by right lines; rectilineal; as, a right-lined angle.
• SECONDER
  One who seconds or supports what another attempts, affirms, moves, or proposes; as, the seconder of an enterprise or of a motion.
• PROPERTY
  All the adjuncts of a play except the scenery and the dresses of the actors; stage requisites. I will draw a bill of properties. Shak. 6. Propriety; correctness. Camden. Literary property. See under Literary. -- Property man, one who has charge
• CONSTITUTIVE
  1. Tending or assisting to constitute or compose; elemental; essential. An ingredient and constitutive part of every virtue. Barrow. 2. Having power to enact, establish, or create; instituting; determining. Sir W. Hamilton.
• NAPLES YELLOW
  See YELLOW
• BRIGHT
  See I
• PRIMOGENITURESHIP
  The state or privileges of the firstborn. Burke.
• CARTWRIGHT
  An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker.
• FRIGHTFUL
  1. Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne. 2. Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance. Syn.
• SPRIGHTLY
  Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance. "Sprightly wit and love inspires." Dryden. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green. Pope.
• SHRIGHT
  imp. & p. p. of Shriek. She cried alway and shright. Chaucer.
• UPRIGHTNESS
  the quality or state of being upright.
• OVERRIGHTEOUS
  Excessively righteous; -- usually implying hypocrisy.
• AFFRIGHTER
  One who frightens.
• EMBRIGHT
  To brighten.
• WRIGHT
  One who is engaged in a mechanical or manufacturing business; an artificer; a workman; a manufacturer; a mechanic; esp., a worker in wood; -- now chiefly used in compounds, as in millwright, wheelwright, etc. He was a well good wright, a carpenter.
• UNIGENITURE
  The state of being the only begotten. Bp. Pearson.