bell notificationshomepageloginedit profileclubsdmBox

Search word meanings:

Word Meanings - DEMESNE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A lord's chief manor place, with that part of the lands belonging thereto which has not been granted out in tenancy; a house, Law) See under Ancient. (more info) demaine, demeigne, domaine, power, F. domaine domain, fr. L. dominium property, right

Additional info about word: DEMESNE

A lord's chief manor place, with that part of the lands belonging thereto which has not been granted out in tenancy; a house, Law) See under Ancient. (more info) demaine, demeigne, domaine, power, F. domaine domain, fr. L. dominium property, right of ownership, fr. dominus master, proprietor, owner.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DEMESNE)

Related words: (words related to DEMESNE)

  • LANDSTHING
    See BELOW
  • LANDSKIP
    A landscape. Straight my eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landskip round it measures. Milton.
  • CONDITIONALITY
    The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms.
  • LANDSMAN
    A sailor on his first voyage. (more info) 1. One who lives on the land; -- opposed to seaman.
  • CONDITIONAL
    Expressing a condition or supposition; as, a conditional word, mode, or tense. A conditional proposition is one which asserts the dependence of one categorical proposition on another. Whately. The words hypothetical and conditional may be . . .
  • FORTUNELESS
    Luckless; also, destitute of a fortune or portion. Spenser.
  • DEMESNE
    A lord's chief manor place, with that part of the lands belonging thereto which has not been granted out in tenancy; a house, Law) See under Ancient. (more info) demaine, demeigne, domaine, power, F. domaine domain, fr. L. dominium property, right
  • PROPERTY
    All the adjuncts of a play except the scenery and the dresses of the actors; stage requisites. I will draw a bill of properties. Shak. 6. Propriety; correctness. Camden. Literary property. See under Literary. -- Property man, one who has charge
  • ORDERLY
    1. Conformed to order; in order; regular; as, an orderly course or plan. Milton. 2. Observant of order, authority, or rule; hence, obedient; quiet; peaceable; not unruly; as, orderly children; an orderly community. 3. Performed in good
  • LANDSCAPE
    land land + -schap, equiv. to E. -schip; akin to G. landschaft, Sw. 1. A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains. 2. A picture representing a scene by land or sea, actual
  • CONDITIONATE
    Conditional. Barak's answer is faithful, though conditionate. Bp. Hall.
  • LANDSTREIGHT
    A narrow strip of land.
  • LANDSTURM
    That part of the reserve force in Germany which is called out last.
  • CONDITION
    A clause in a contract, or agreement, which has for its object to suspend, to defeat, or in some way to modify, the principal obligation; or, in case of a will, to suspend, revoke, or modify a devise or bequest. It is also the case of
  • CONDITIONLY
    Conditionally.
  • 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
  • ORDERLINESS
    The state or quality of being orderly.
  • ORDER
    1. Regular arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system; as: Of material things, like the books in a library. Of intellectual notions or ideas, like the topics of a discource. Of periods of time or
  • FREEHOLD
    An estate in real property, of inheritance (in fee simple or fee tail) or for life; or the tenure by which such estate is held. Kent. Burrill. To abate into a freehold. See under Abate.
  • ORDERING
    Disposition; distribution; management. South.
  • COWPER'S GLANDS
    Two small glands discharging into the male urethra.
  • IMBORDER
    To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
  • MISFORTUNED
    Unfortunate.
  • REESTATE
    To reëstablish. Walis.
  • MISORDER
    To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak.
  • DEHONESTATE
    To disparage. (more info) dishonor; de- + honestare to make honorable. Cf. Dishonest, and see
  • ACCORDER
    One who accords, assents, or concedes.
  • INTESTATE
    1. Without having made a valid will; without a will; as, to die intestate. Blackstone. Airy succeeders of intestate joys. Shak. 2. Not devised or bequeathed; not disposed of by will; as, an intestate estate.
  • IMPROPERTY
    Impropriety.
  • INCONDITIONAL
    Unconditional. Sir T. Browne.
  • WHEEL OF FORTUNE
    A gambling or lottery device consisting of a wheel which is spun horizontally, articles or sums to which certain marks on its circumference point when it stops being distributed according to varying rules.
  • UNCONDITIONAL
    Not conditional limited, or conditioned; made without condition; absolute; unreserved; as, an unconditional surrender. O, pass not, Lord, an absolute decree, Or bind thy sentence unconditional. Dryden. -- Un`con*di"tion*al*ly, adv.
  • UNCONDITIONED
    Not subject to condition or limitations; infinite; absolute; hence, inconceivable; incogitable. Sir W. Hamilton. The unconditioned , all that which is inconceivable and beyond the realm of reason; whatever is inconceivable under logical forms or

 

Back to top