Word Meanings - DEFORCIANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who keeps out of possession the rightful owner of an estate. One against whom a fictitious action of fine was brought. Burrill.

Related words: (words related to DEFORCIANT)

• OWNER
  One who owns; a rightful proprietor; one who has the legal or rightful title, whether he is the possessor or not. Shak.
• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.
• ACTION
  Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun. (more info) 1. A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of
• POSSESSIONER
  1. A possessor; a property holder. "Possessioners of riches." E. Hall. Having been of old freemen and possessioners. Sir P. Sidney. 2. An invidious name for a member of any religious community endowed with property in lands, buildings, etc.,
• ACTIONABLE
  That may be the subject of an action or suit at law; as, to call a man a thief is actionable.
• OWNERLESS
  Without an owner.
• POSSESSIONARY
  Of or pertaining to possession; arising from possession.
• AGAINST
  1. Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. Tyndale. 2. From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in
• ACTIONABLY
  In an actionable manner.
• OWNERSHIP
  The state of being an owner; the right to own; exclusive right of possession; legal or just claim or title; proprietorship.
• ESTATE
  The great classes or orders of a community or state (as the clergy, the nobility, and the commonalty of England) or their representatives who administer the government; as, the estates of the realm , which are the lords spiritual, the lords
• POSSESSION
  The having, holding, or detention of property in one's power or command; actual seizin or occupancy; ownership, whether rightful or wrongful. Note: Possession may be either actual or constructive; actual, when a party has the immediate occupancy;
• ACTIONARY; ACTIONIST
  A shareholder in joint-stock company.
• RIGHTFUL
  1. Righteous; upright; just; good; -- said of persons. Chaucer. 2. Consonant to justice; just; as, a rightful cause. 3. Having the right or just claim according to established laws; being or holding by right; as, the rightful heir to a throne or
• ACTIONLESS
  Void of action.
• FICTITIOUS
  Feigned; imaginary; not real; fabulous; counterfeit; false; not genuine; as, fictitious fame. The human persons are as fictitious as the airy ones. Pope. -- Fic*ti"tious*ly, adv. -- Fic*ti"tious*ness, n.
• KEEPSAKE
  Anything kept, or given to be kept, for the sake of the giver; a token of friendship.
• RIGHTFULNESS
  1. The quality or state of being rightful; accordance with right and justice. 2. Moral rectitude; righteousness. Wyclif. We fail of perfect rightfulness. Sir P. Sidney.
• RIGHTFULLY
  According to right or justice.
• REACTIONIST
  A reactionary. C. Kingsley.
• CROWNER
  A coroner. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, crowns. Beau. & FL. 2. Etym:
• REESTATE
  To reëstablish. Walis.
• MADEFACTION; MADEFICATION
  The act of madefying, or making wet; the state of that which is made wet. Bacon.
• FRIGHTFUL
  1. Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne. 2. Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance. Syn.
• REDACTION
  The act of redacting; work produced by redacting; a digest.
• CHYLIFACTION
  The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process.
• DEHONESTATE
  To disparage. (more info) dishonor; de- + honestare to make honorable. Cf. Dishonest, and see
• FACTION
  One of the divisions or parties of charioteers (distinguished by their colors) in the games of the circus. 2. A party, in political society, combined or acting in union, in opposition to the government, or state; -- usually applied to a minority,
• DISTRACTION
  1. The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation. To create distractions among us. Bp. Burnet. 2. That which diverts attention; a diversion. "Domestic distractions." G. Eliot. 3. A diversity of direction; detachment. His power went out in
• REFACTION
  Recompense; atonemet; retribution. Howell.
• COLLIQUEFACTION
  A melting together; the reduction of different bodies into one mass by fusion. The incorporation of metals by simple colliquefaction. Bacon.
• DIRECT ACTION
  See BELOW
• UNDERACTION
  Subordinate action; a minor action incidental or subsidiary to the main story; an episode. The least episodes or underactions . . . are parts necessary or convenient to carry on the main design. Dryden.
• ABSTRACTION
  The act process of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others; analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or
• SUBSTRACTION
  See 3 (more info) 1. Subtraction; deduction.