Word Meanings - UMPIRAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The office of an umpire; the power, right, or authority of an umpire to decide. The mind umpirage of the federal Union. E. Everett. 2. The act of umpiring; arbitrament. Bp. Hall.

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• RIGHT-RUNNING
  Straight; direct.
• FEDERALIST
  An advocate of confederation; specifically , a friend of the Constitution of the United States at its formation and adoption; a member of the political party which favored the administration of president Washington.
• POWERFUL
  Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any
• OFFICEHOLDER
  An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
• POWERABLE
  1. Capable of being effected or accomplished by the application of power; possible. J. Young. 2. Capable of exerting power; powerful. Camden.
• 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,
• UNIONISTIC
  Of or pertaining to union or unionists; tending to promote or preserve union.
• UMPIRESHIP
  Umpirage; arbitrament. Jewel.
• DECIDER
  One who decides.
• DECIDEMENT
  Means of forming a decision. Beau. & Fl.
• FEDERAL
  1. Pertaining to a league or treaty; derived from an agreement or covenant between parties, especially between nations; constituted by a compact between parties, usually governments or their representatives. The Romans compelled them, contrary
• RIGHT-ANGLED
  Containing a right angle or right angles; as, a right-angled triangle.
• 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.
• RIGHTEN
  To do justice to. Relieve the opressed. Isa. i. 17.
• OFFICE WIRE
  Copper wire with a strong but light insulation, used in wiring houses, etc.
• RIGHT-LINED
  Formed by right lines; rectilineal; as, a right-lined angle.
• FEDERALISM
  the principles of Federalists or of federal union.
• RIGHT-MINDED
  Having a right or honest mind. -- Right"-mind`ed*ness, n.
• RIGHT-HANDED
  Having the whorls rising from left to right; dextral; -- said of spiral shells. See Illust. of Scalaria. Right-handed screw, a screw, the threads of which, like those of a common wood screw, wind spirally in such a direction that screw advances
• DECIDEDLY
  In a decided manner; indisputably; clearly; thoroughly.
• INTERCOMMUNION
  Mutual communion; as, an intercommunion of deities. Faber.
• BRIGHT
  See I
• POST OFFICE
  See POST
• REUNION
  1. A second union; union formed anew after separation, secession, or discord; as, a reunion of parts or particles of matter; a reunion of parties or sects. 2. An assembling of persons who have been separated, as of a family, or the members of a
• CANDLE POWER
  Illuminating power, as of a lamp, or gas flame, reckoned in terms of the light of a standard candle.
• CARTWRIGHT
  An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker.
• 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.
• 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.
• SHRIGHT
  imp. & p. p. of Shriek. She cried alway and shright. Chaucer.
• BOOKING OFFICE
  1. An office where passengers, baggage, etc., are registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship. 2. An office where passage tickets are sold.
• UPRIGHTNESS
  the quality or state of being upright.
• CROWN OFFICE
  The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases. Burrill.