Word Meanings - SESSION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of sitting, or the state of being seated. So much his ascension into heaven and his session at the right hand of God do import. Hooker. But Viven, gathering somewhat of his mood, . . . Leaped from her session on his lap, and

Additional info about word: SESSION

1. The act of sitting, or the state of being seated. So much his ascension into heaven and his session at the right hand of God do import. Hooker. But Viven, gathering somewhat of his mood, . . . Leaped from her session on his lap, and stood. Tennyson. 2. The actual sitting of a court, council, legislature, etc., or the actual assembly of the members of such a body, for the transaction of business. It's fit this royal session do proceed. Shak. 3. Hence, also, the time, period, or term during which a court, council, legislature, etc., meets daily for business; or, the space of time between the first meeting and the prorogation or adjournment; thus, a session of Parliaments is opened with a speech from the throne, and closed by prorogation. The session of a judicial court is called a term. It was resolved that the convocation should meet at the beginning of the next session of Parliament. Macaulay. Note: Sessions, in some of the States, is particularly used as a title for a court of justices, held for granting licenses to innkeepers, etc., and for laying out highways, and the like; it is also the title of several courts of criminal jurisdiction in England and the United States. Church session, the lowest court in the Presbyterian Church, composed of the pastor and a body of elders elected by the members of a particular church, and having the care of matters pertaining to the religious interests of that church, as the admission and dismission of members, discipline, etc. -- Court of Session, the supreme civil court of Scotland. -- Quarter sessions. See under Quarter. -- Sessions of the peace, sittings held by justices of the peace.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SESSION)

• Convention
• Assemblage
• meeting
• gathering
• conference
• cabinet
• convocation
• congress
• session
• synod
• treaty
• compact

Related words: (words related to SESSION)

• MEETER
  One who meets.
• CONFERENCE
  A stated meeting of preachers and others, invested with authority to take cognizance of ecclesiastical matters. 6. A voluntary association of Congregational churches of a district; the district in which such churches are. Conference meeting,
• CONVENTIONALLY
  In a conventional manner.
• CONGRESSIVE
  Encountering, or coming together. Sir T. Browne.
• CONVENTIONAL
  1. Formed by agreement or compact; stipulated. Conventional services reserved by tenures upon grants, made out of the crown or knights' service. Sir M. Hale. 2. Growing out of, or depending on, custom or tacit agreement; sanctioned by
• CONVENTIONALISM
  The principles or practice of conventionalizing. See Conventionalize, v. t. (more info) 1. That which is received or established by convention or arbitrary agreement; that which is in accordance with the fashion, tradition, or usage.
• COMPACT
  1. Joined or held together; leagued; confederated. "Compact with her that's gone." Shak. A pipe of seven reeds, compact with wax together. Peacham. 2. Composed or made; -- with of. A wandering fire, Compact of unctuous vapor. Milton. 3. Closely
• COMPACTIBLE
  That may be compacted.
• CONGRESSMAN
  A member of the Congress of the United States, esp. of the House of Representatives.
• CONVOCATIONIST
  An advocate or defender of convocation.
• CONVENTIONIST
  One who enters into a convention, covenant, or contract.
• COMPACTEDLY
  In a compact manner.
• CONGRESSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to a congress, especially, to the Congress of the United States; as, congressional debates. Congressional and official labor. E. Everett. Congressional District, one of the divisions into which a State is periodically divided ,
• SYNODIC; SYNODICAL
  Of or pertaining to a synod; transacted in, or authorized by, a synod; as, synodical proceedings or forms. "A synodical epistle." Bp. Stillingfleet.
• GATHERER
  An attachment for making gathers in the cloth. (more info) 1. One who gathers or collects.
• MEETEN
  To render fit.
• MEETH
  , Mead. See Meathe. Chaucer.
• CONVENTIONALITY
  The state of being conventional; adherence to social formalities or usages; that which is established by conventional use; one of the customary usages of social life.
• MEETINGHOUSE
  A house used as a place of worship; a church; -- in England, applied only to a house so used by Dissenters.
• GATHERABLE
  Capable of being gathered or collected; deducible from premises. Godwin.
• MEGATHEROID
  One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc.
• WATCH MEETING
  A religious meeting held in the closing hours of the year.
• TAXGATHERER
  One who collects taxes or revenues. -- Tax"gath`er*ing, n.
• ENTREATY
  1. Treatment; reception; entertainment. B. Jonson. 2. The act of entreating or beseeching; urgent prayer; earnest petition; pressing solicitation. Fair entreaty, and sweet blandishment. Spenser. Syn. -- Solicitation; request; suit; supplication;
• 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.,
• UPGATHER
  To gather up; to contract; to draw together. Himself he close upgathered more and more. Spenser.