Word Meanings - SEIZIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Possession; possession of an estate of froehold. It may be either in deed or in law; the former when there is actual possession, the latter when there is a right to such possession by construction of law. In some of the United States seizin means

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Possession; possession of an estate of froehold. It may be either in deed or in law; the former when there is actual possession, the latter when there is a right to such possession by construction of law. In some of the United States seizin means merely ownership. Burrill. 2. The act of taking possession. 3. The thing possessed; property. Sir M. Halle. Note: Commonly spelt by writers on law seisin. Livery of seizin. See Note under Livery, 1.

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  Straight; direct.
• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• UNITERABLE
  Not iterable; incapable of being repeated. "To play away an uniterable life." Sir T. Browne.
• THEREAGAIN
  In opposition; against one's course. If that him list to stand thereagain. Chaucer.
• ACTUALIZE
  To make actual; to realize in action. Coleridge.
• THERETO
  1. To that or this. Chaucer. 2. Besides; moreover. Spenser. Her mouth full small, and thereto soft and red. Chaucer.
• 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,
• THEREBEFORE; THEREBIFORN
  Before that time; beforehand. Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer.
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• THEREOUT
  1. Out of that or this. He shall take thereout his handful of the flour. Lev. ii. 2. 2. On the outside; out of doors. Chaucer.
• LATTERLY
  Lately; of late; recently; at a later, as distinguished from a former, period. Latterly Milton was short and thick. Richardson.
• LATTER-DAY SAINT
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• LATTERKIN
  A pointed wooden tool used in glazing leaden lattice.
• 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.,
• UNITIVE
  Having the power of uniting; causing, or tending to produce, union. Jer. Taylor.
• ACTUAL
  1. Involving or comprising action; active. Her walking and other actual performances. Shak. Let your holy and pious intention be actual; that is . . . by a special prayer or action, . . . given to God. Jer. Taylor. 2. Existing in act or reality;
• UNITARIANISM
  The doctrines of Unitarians.
• THEREUNDER
  Under that or this.
• RIGHT-ANGLED
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• UNITARIANIZE
  To change or turn to Unitarian views.
• DEFORMER
  One who deforms.
• BLATTER
  To prate; to babble; to rail; to make a senseless noise; to patter. "The rain blattered." Jeffrey. They procured . . . preachers to blatter against me, . . . so that they had place and time to belie me shamefully. Latimer.
• BRIGHT
  See I
• FLATTER
  1. One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens. A flat-faced fulling hammer. A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc.
• BLATTEROON
  A senseless babbler or boaster. "I hate such blatteroons." Howell.
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• CLATTERINGLY
  With clattering.
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  To reëstablish. Walis.
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  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.
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