That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, Parliament and legislatures.Legislative assembly: alternatives and connections
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Legislative assembly
persons who make or amend or repeal laws
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pretend to have certain qualities or state of mind; "He acted the idiot"; "She plays deaf when the news are bad"
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, Parliament and legislatures.Proof; evidence.
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, Parliament and legislatures.The act of forming reasons, making inductions, drawing conclusions, and applying them to the case in discussion; the operation of infe…
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, Parliament and legislatures.A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal.
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, Parliament and legislatures.A retired room, esp. an upper room used for sleeping; a bedroom; as, the house had four chambers.
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, Parliament and legislatures.The act of committing, doing, or performing; the act of perpetrating.
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, Parliament and legislatures.One or more persons elected or appointed, to whom any matter or business is referred, either by a legislative body, or by a court, or…
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, Parliament and legislatures.To engage in combat for; to strive for.
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, Parliament and legislatures.a card game in which you play your sevens and other cards in sequence in the same suit as the sevens; you win if you are the first to…
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, Parliament and legislatures.persons who make or amend or repeal laws
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, Parliament and legislatures.In general, a rule of being or of conduct, established by an authority able to enforce its will; a controlling regulation; the mode or…
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, Parliament and legislatures.persons who make or amend or repeal laws
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, Parliament and legislatures.Making, or having the power to make, a law or laws; lawmaking; -- distinguished from executive; as, a legislative act; a legislative b…
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, Parliament and legislatures.persons who make or amend or repeal laws
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, Parliament and legislatures.The body of persons in a state or kingdom invested with power to make and repeal laws; a legislative body.
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, Parliament and legislatures.A standard of dimension; a fixed unit of quantity or extent; an extent or quantity in the fractions or multiples of which anything is…
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, Parliament and legislatures.a military corps that enforces discipline and guards prisoners
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, Parliament and legislatures.Words connected by meaning
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Abrogated; abolished.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: persons, amend, repeal, laws.The act of abrogating; repeal by authority.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: persons, amend, repeal, laws.The act of administering; government of public affairs; the service rendered, or duties assumed, in conducting affairs; the conducting…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: persons, amend, repeal, laws.of Amend
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: persons, amend, repeal, laws.of Amend
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: persons, amend, repeal, laws.The body of legal principles established in decisions made by courts.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: persons, amend, repeal, laws.Law developed through judicial decisions and precedent rather than only through legislation.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: persons, amend, repeal, laws.A collection of maritime laws of disputed origin, supposed to have been first published at Barcelona early in the 14th century. It has…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: persons, amend, repeal, laws.A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: persons, amend, repeal, laws.Set right, or made straight; hence, conformable to truth, rectitude, or propriety, or to a just standard; not faulty or imperfect; fre…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: persons, amend, repeal, laws.To annul in part; to repeal partly; to restrict; to limit the action of; -- said of a law.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: persons, amend, repeal, laws.The act of derogating, partly repealing, or lessening in value; disparagement; detraction; depreciation; -- followed by of, from, or t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: persons, amend, repeal, laws.To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application; as, to digest th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: persons, amend, repeal, laws.To disunite; to undo or repeal the annexation of.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: persons, amend, repeal, laws.Not to obey; to neglect or refuse to obey (a superior or his commands, the laws, etc.); to transgress the commands of (one in authorit…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: persons, amend, repeal, laws.A community in which many persons unite as in one family, and are regulated by certain communistic laws and customs.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: persons, amend, repeal, laws.The act of governing; the exercise of authority; the administration of laws; control; direction; regulation; as, civil, church, or fam…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: persons, amend, repeal, laws.A member of a secret political organization in the United States, the chief objects of which were the proscription of foreigners by th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: persons, amend, repeal, laws.Explore Academic Dictionary
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