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721 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.
722 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. RUN.31 (Noah Webster)
20. To have a legal course; to be attached to; to have legal effect.
723 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 …
724 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.
725 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SENSE.19 (Noah Webster)
… a legal sense, a grammatical sense, an historical sense, etc.
726 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.
727 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.
728 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SETTLEMENT.5 (Noah Webster)
4. The act of giving possession by legal sanction.
729 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SETTLEMENT.16 (Noah Webster)
13. Legal residence or establishment of a person in a particular parish or town, which entitles him to maintenance if a pauper, and subjects the parish or town …
730 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SHAVE.14 (Noah Webster)
To shave a note. to purchase it at a great discount, a discount much beyong the legal rate of interest. [A low phrase.]
731 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SHUT.16 (Noah Webster)
4. To confine by legal or moral restraint.
732 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SINGULARITY.4 (Noah Webster)
3. Particular privilege, prerogative or distinction. No bishop of Rome ever took upon him this name of singularity, (universal bishop.) Catholicism-must be understood in opposition to the legal singularity of the Jewish nation.
733 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SMITE.3 (Noah Webster)
… by legal execution.]
734 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SOLEMNIZE.3 (Noah Webster)
2. To perform with ritual ceremonies and respect, or according to legal forms; as, to solemnize a marriage.
735 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SOUND.12 (Noah Webster)
11. Founded in right and law; legal; valid; not defective; that cannot be overthrown; as a sound title to land; sound justice.
736 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STRENGTH.18 (Noah Webster)
12. Legal or moral force; validity; the quality of binding, uniting or securing; as the strength of social or legal obligations; the strength of law; the strength of public opinion or custom.
737 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STRENGTHEN.2 (Noah Webster)
1. To make strong or stronger; to add strength to, either physical, legal or moral; as, to strengthen a limb; to strengthen an obligation.
738 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STRESS.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Force; urgency; pressure; importance; that which bears with most weight; as the stress of a legal question. Consider how much stress is laid on the exercise of charity in the New Testament.
739 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STRIP.20 (Noah Webster)
2. Waste, in a legal sense; destruction of fences, buildings, timber, etc.
740 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SUBPENA.3 (Noah Webster)
SUBPENA, v.t. To serve with a writ of subpena; to command attendance in court by a legal writ.