Retaliatory: alternatives and connections

The principles or measures of abolitionists.

Professing ignorance; involving no dogmatic; pertaining to or involving agnosticism.

Orig., an officer appointed to look to the goodness of ale and beer; also, one of the officers chosen by the liverymen of London to in…

The horizontal line which measures the distance to which a projectile is thrown; the range.

To attack with moral means, or with a view of producing moral effects; to attack by words, arguments, or unfriendly measures; to assai…

To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to; as, to assert our rights and lib…

A statute or ordinance in general. Specifically: (1) A statute regulating the weight, measure, and proportions of ingredients and the…

A vertical line across the staff. Bars divide the staff into spaces which represent measures, and are themselves called measures.

Loading or tending; helpful; contributive; tending to promote.

tending to one point of focus; tending to approach each other; converging.

A function involving the coefficients and the variables of a quantic, and such that when the quantic is lineally transformed the same…

a periodically repeated sequence of events; "a cycle of reprisal and retaliation"

Tending to descend; tending downwards; descending.

Tending to exaggerate; involving exaggeration.

a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation; "holding a grudge"; "settling a score"

a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation; "holding a grudge"; "settling a score"

Not expedient; not tending to promote a purpose; not tending to the end desired; inadvisable; unfit; improper; unsuitable to time and…

Law; as, lex talionis, the law of retaliation; lex terrae, the law of the land; lex fori, the law of the forum or court; lex loci, the…