Word Meanings - CAUSIDICAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to an advocate, or to the maintenance and defense of suits.

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• ADVOCATE
  advocatus, one summoned or called to another; properly the p. p. of advocare to call to, call to one's aid; ad + vocare to call. See 1. One who pleads the cause of another. Specifically: One who pleads the cause of another before a tribunal or
• DEFENSER
  Defender. Foxe.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• MAINTENANCE
  An officious or unlawful intermeddling in a cause depending between others, by assisting either party with money or means to carry it on. See Champerty. Wharton. Cap of maintenance. See under Cap. (more info) 1. The act of maintaining; sustenance;
• DEFENSE; DEFENCE
  The defendant's answer or plea; an opposing or denial of the truth or validity of the plaintiff's or prosecutor's case; the method of proceeding adopted by the defendant to protect himself against the plaintiff's action. 5. Act or skill in making
• DEFENSELESS
  Destitute of defense; unprepared to resist attack; unable to oppose; unprotected. -- De*fense"less*ly, adv. -- De*fense"less*ness, n.
• ADVOCATESHIP
  Office or duty of an advocate.
• DEFENSE
  Better manned and more strongly defensed. Hales.
• SELF-DEFENSE
  The act of defending one's own person, property, or reputation. In self-defense , in protection of self, -- it being permitted in law to a party on whom a grave wrong is attempted to resist the wrong, even at the peril of the life of
• SUBADVOCATE
  An under or subordinate advocate.
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach