Word Meanings - CLERGYABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Entitled to, or admitting, the benefit of clergy; as, a clergyable felony. Blackstone.

Related words: (words related to CLERGYABLE)

• FELONY
  An act on the part of the vassal which cost him his fee by forfeiture. Burrill.
• ADMITTER
  One who admits.
• BENEFIT SOCIETY
  A society or association formed for mutual insurance, as among tradesmen or in labor unions, to provide for relief in sickness, old age, and for the expenses of burial. Usually called friendly society in Great Britain.
• ADMITTANCE
  The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate. Bouvier. Syn. -- Admission; access; entrance; initiation. -- Admittance, Admission. These words are, to some extent, in a state of transition and change. Admittance is now chiefly confined to its
• ADMITTABLE
  Admissible. Sir T. Browne.
• ADMITTED; ADMITTEDLY
  Received as true or valid; acknowledged. -- Ad*mit"ted*ly adv.
• CLERGYMAN
  An ordained minister; a man regularly authorized to peach the gospel, and administer its ordinances; in England usually restricted to a minister of the Established Church.
• BENEFITER
  One who confers a benefit; -- also, one who receives a benefit.
• ADMITTATUR
  The certificate of admission given in some American colleges.
• CLERGYABLE
  Entitled to, or admitting, the benefit of clergy; as, a clergyable felony. Blackstone.
• CLERGY
  clergie confused with OF. clergié, F. clergé, fr. LL. clericatus office of priest, monastic life, fr. L. clericus priest, LL. scholar, clerc. Both the Old French words meant clergy, in sense 1, the former having also sense 2. See 1. The body
• FELONY; TO COMPOUND A FELONY
  . See under Compound, v. t.
• ENTITLE
  1. To give a title to; to affix to as a name or appellation; hence, also, to dignify by an honorary designation; to denominate; to call; as, to entitle a book "Commentaries;" to entitle a man "Honorable." That which . . . we entitle patience. Shak.
• BENEFIT
  Natural advantaged; endowments; accomplishments. "The benefits of your own country." Shak. Benefit of clergy. See under Clergy. Syn. -- Profit; service; use; avail. See Advantage. (more info) L. benefactum; bene well + factum, p. p. of 1.
• READMITTANCE
  Allowance to enter again; a second admission.
• DISENTITLE
  To deprive of title or claim. Every ordinary offense does not disentitle a son to the love of his father. South.
• UNADMISSIBLE; UNADMITTABLE
  Inadmissible.