Word Meanings - UNPARLIAMENTARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not parliamentary; contrary to the practice of parliamentary bodies. -- Un*par`lia*men"ta*ri*ness, n.

Related words: (words related to UNPARLIAMENTARY)

• PRACTICER
  1. One who practices, or puts in practice; one who customarily performs certain acts. South. 2. One who exercises a profession; a practitioner. 3. One who uses art or stratagem. B. Jonson.
• CONTRARY
  Affirming the opposite; so opposed as to destroy each other; as, contrary propositions. Contrary motion , the progression of parts in opposite directions, one ascending, the other descending. Syn. -- Adverse; repugnant; hostile; inimical;
• PRACTICED
  1. Experienced; expert; skilled; as, a practiced marksman. "A practiced picklock." Ld. Lytton. 2. Used habitually; learned by practice.
• PRACTICE
  A easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business. (more info) also, practique, LL. practica, fr. Gr. Practical, and cf. Pratique, 1. Frequently repeated or customary action;
• PARLIAMENTARY
  1. Of or pertaining to Parliament; as, parliamentary authority. Bacon. 2. Enacted or done by Parliament; as, a parliamentary act. Sir M. Hale. 3. According to the rules and usages of Parliament or of deliberative bodies; as, a parliamentary motion.
• MALPRACTICE
  Evil practice; illegal or immoral conduct; practice contrary to established rules; specifically, the treatment of a case by a surgeon or physician in a manner which is contrary to accepted rules and productive of unfavorable results.
• SUBCONTRARY
  Having, or being in, a contrary order; -- said of a section of an oblique cone having a circular base made by a plane not parallel to the base, but so inclined to the axis that the section is a circle; applied also to two similar triangles when
• MISPRACTICE
  Wrong practice.
• UNPARLIAMENTARY
  Not parliamentary; contrary to the practice of parliamentary bodies. -- Un*par`lia*men"ta*ri*ness, n.
• MALEPRACTICE
  See MALPRACTICE