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Appointment
noun · 78% connection
The state of being appointed to som/ service or office; an office to which one is appointed; station; position; an, the appointment of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: office, carry, torch.
Augurship
noun · 78% connection
The office, or period of office, of an augur.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: office, carry, torch.
Batfowling
noun · 78% connection
A mode of catching birds at night, by holding a torch or other light, and beating the bush or perch where they roost. The birds, flyin…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: office, carry, torch.
Candidate
noun · 78% connection
One who offers himself, or is put forward by others, as a suitable person or an aspirant or contestant for an office, privilege, or ho…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: office, carry, torch.
Carry
verb · 78% connection
To transfer from one place (as a country, book, or column) to another; as, to carry the war from Greece into Asia; to carry an account…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: office, carry, torch.
Decemvirate
noun · 78% connection
The office or term of office of the decemvirs in Rome.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: office, carry, torch.
Describe
verb · 78% connection
To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out; as, to describe a circle by the compasses; a torch wav…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: office, carry, torch.
Dictatorship
noun · 78% connection
The office, or the term of office, of a dictator; hence, absolute power.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: office, carry, torch.
Duumvirate
noun · 78% connection
The union of two men in the same office; or the office, dignity, or government of two men thus associated, as in ancient Rome.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: office, carry, torch.
Elder
adjective · 78% connection
A person who, on account of his age, occupies the office of ruler or judge; hence, a person occupying any office appropriate to such a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: office, carry, torch.
Entrance
noun · 78% connection
The act of entering or going into; ingress; as, the entrance of a person into a house or an apartment; hence, the act of taking posses…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: office, carry, torch.
Ex officio
unknown · 78% connection
From office; by virtue, or as a consequence, of an office; officially.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: office, carry, torch.
Exercise
verb · 78% connection
To put in practice; to carry out in action; to perform the duties of; to use; to employ; to practice; as, to exercise authority; to ex…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: office, carry, torch.
Extinguisher
noun · 78% connection
One who, or that which, extinguishes; esp., a hollow cone or other device for extinguishing a flame, as of a torch or candle.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: office, carry, torch.
Flambeau
noun · 78% connection
A flaming torch, esp. one made by combining together a number of thick wicks invested with a quick-burning substance (anciently, perha…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: office, carry, torch.
Girder
noun · 78% connection
A main beam; a stright, horizontal beam to span an opening or carry weight, such as ends of floor beams, etc.; hence, a framed or buil…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: office, carry, torch.
Incapable
adjective · 78% connection
Unqualified or disqualified, in a legal sense; as, a man under thirty-five years of age is incapable of holding the office of presiden…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: office, carry, torch.
Induct
verb · 78% connection
To introduce, as to a benefice or office; to put in actual possession of the temporal rights of an ecclesiastical living, or of any ot…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: office, carry, torch.
