Search for: legalism
701 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PURCHASE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. In its primary and legal sense, to gain, obtain or acquire by any means, except by descent or hereditary right.
702 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. QUALIFICATION.4 (Noah Webster)
2. Legal power or requisite; as the qualifications of electors.
703 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. QUALIFY.3 (Noah Webster)
2. To make capable of any employment or privilege; to furnish with legal power or capacity; as, in England, to qualify a man to kill game.
704 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. QUALIFYING.1 (Noah Webster)
QUALIFYING, ppr. Furnishing with the necessary qualities, properties or accomplishments for a place, station or business; furnishing with legal power; abating; tempering; modifying; restraining.
705 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. REGULARITY.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Agreeableness to a rule or to established order; as the regularity of legal proceedings.
706 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. RELEASE.5 (Noah Webster)
4. To quit; to let go, as a legal claim; as, to release a debt or forfeiture. Deuteronomy 15:1-3 .
707 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. REPENTANCE.3 (Noah Webster)
… called legal repentance, as being excited by the terrors of legal penalties, and it may exist without an amendment of life.
708 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. REPRESENTATIVE.3 (Noah Webster)
They own the legal sacrifices, though representative, to be proper and real.
709 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. RESOLVE.28 (Noah Webster)
2. Legal or official determination; legislative act concerning a private person or corporation, or concerning some private business. Public acts of a legislature …
710 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. RESPIT.5 (Noah Webster)
3. Delay; forbearance; prolongation of time for the payment of a debt beyond the legal time.
711 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. RETURNABLE.3 (Noah Webster)
2. In law, that is legally to be returned, delivered, given or rendered; as a writ or precept returnable at a certain day; a verdict returnable to the court; an attachment returnable to the king’s bench.
712 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. REVOKE.2 (Noah Webster)
… be legally revoked without the consent of the corporation. A devise may be revoked by the devisor, a use by the grantor, and a will be the testator.
713 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. RIGHT.39 (Noah Webster)
… claim; legal title; ownership; the legal power of exclusive possession and enjoyment. In hereditary monarchies, a right to the throne vests in the heir on the …
714 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. RIGHT.47 (Noah Webster)
11. Authority; legal power. We have no right to disturb others in the enjoyment of their religious opinions.
715 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. RUN.31 (Noah Webster)
20. To have a legal course; to be attached to; to have legal effect.
716 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SEAL.19 (Noah Webster)
… exactness, legal size, or merchantable quality. By our laws, weights and measures are to be sealed by an officer appointe and sworn for that purpose; and lether …
717 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SEIZE.7 (Noah Webster)
4. To take possession by virtue of a warrant or legal authority. The sherif seized the debtor’s goods; the whole estate was seized and cofiscated. We say, to arrest a person, to seize goods.
718 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SENSE.19 (Noah Webster)
… a legal sense, a grammatical sense, an historical sense, etc.
719 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SERVANT.4 (Noah Webster)
In a legal sense, stewards, factors, bailifs and other agents, are servants for the time they are employed in such character, as they act in subordination to others.
720 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SETTLE.18 (Noah Webster)
11. To fix or establish by gifr, grant or any legal act; as, to settle a pension on an officer, or an annuity on a child.