Word Meanings - TERRE-TENANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who has the actual possession of land; the occupant.

Related words: (words related to TERRE-TENANT)

• ACTUALIZE
  To make actual; to realize in action. Coleridge.
• 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.,
• 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;
• OCCUPANT
  1. One who occupies, or takes possession; one who has the actual use or possession, or is in possession, of a thing. Note: This word, in law, sometimes signifies one who takes the first possession of a thing that has no owner. 2. A prostitute.
• POSSESSIONARY
  Of or pertaining to possession; arising from possession.
• ACTUALITY
  The state of being actual; reality; as, the actuality of God's nature. South.
• ACTUALIZATION
  A making actual or really existent. Emerson.
• POSSESSION
  The having, holding, or detention of property in one's power or command; actual seizin or occupancy; ownership, whether rightful or wrongful. Note: Possession may be either actual or constructive; actual, when a party has the immediate occupancy;
• ACTUALLY
  1. Actively. "Neither actually . . . nor passively." Fuller. 2. In act or in fact; really; in truth; positively.
• ACTUALIST
  One who deals with or considers actually existing facts and conditions, rather than fancies or theories; -- opposed to idealist. J. Grote.
• ACTUALNESS
  Quality of being actual; actuality.
• DISPOSSESSION
  The putting out of possession, wrongfully or otherwise, of one who is in possession of a freehold, no matter in what title; -- called also ouster. (more info) 1. The act of putting out of possession; the state of being dispossessed. Bp. Hall.
• SELF-POSSESSION
  The possession of one's powers; calmness; self-command; presence of mind; composure.
• TACTUAL
  Of or pertaining to the sense, or the organs, of touch; derived from touch. In the lowest organisms we have a kind of tactual sense diffused over the entire body. Tyndall.
• PREPOSSESSION
  1. Preoccupation; prior possession. Hammond. 2. Preoccupation of the mind by an opinion, or impression, already formed; preconceived opinion; previous impression; bias; -- generally, but not always, used in a favorable sense; as, the prepossessions
• REPOSSESSION
  The act or the state of possessing again.
• FACTUAL
  Relating to, or containing, facts.