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Word Meanings - DETAINER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who detains. The keeping possession of what belongs to another; detention of what is another's, even though the original taking may have been lawful. Forcible detainer is indictable at common law. A writ authorizing the keeper of a prison

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1. One who detains. The keeping possession of what belongs to another; detention of what is another's, even though the original taking may have been lawful. Forcible detainer is indictable at common law. A writ authorizing the keeper of a prison to continue to keep a person in custody.

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  • TAKING
    1. Apt to take; alluring; attracting. Subtile in making his temptations most taking. Fuller. 2. Infectious; contageous. Beau. & Fl. -- Tak"ing*ly, adv. -- Tak"ing*ness, n.
  • ANOTHER-GUESS
    Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
  • COMMONER
    1. One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility. All below them even their children, were commoners, and in the eye law equal to each other. Hallam. 2. A member of the House of Commons. 3. One who has a joint right in common ground.
  • THOUGHT
    imp. & p. p. of Think.
  • 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.,
  • COMMONISH
    Somewhat common; commonplace; vulgar.
  • THOUGHTLESS
    1. Lacking thought; careless; inconsiderate; rash; as, a thoughtless person, or act. 2. Giddy; gay; dissipated. Johnson. 3. Deficient in reasoning power; stupid; dull. Thoughtless as monarch oaks that shade the plain. Dryden. -- Thought"less*ly,
  • FORCIBLE-FEEBLE
    Seemingly vigorous, but really weak or insipid. He would purge his book of much offensive matter, if he struck out epithets which are in the bad taste of the forcible-feeble school. N. Brit. Review. (more info) Part of Shakespeare's "King Henry
  • COMMONLY
    1. Usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most part; as, confirmed habits commonly continue trough life. 2. In common; familiary. Spenser.
  • PRISONMENT
    Imprisonment. Shak.
  • TAKE
    Taken. Chaucer.
  • DETENTION
    1. The act of detaining or keeping back; a withholding. 2. The state of being detained ; delay from necessity. 3. Confinement; restraint; custody. The archduke Philip . . . found himself in a sort of honorable detention at Henry's court. Hallam.
  • COMMONWEALTH
    Specifically, the form of government established on the death of Charles I., in 1649, which existed under Oliver Cromwell and his son Richard, ending with the abdication of the latter in 1659. Syn. -- State; realm; republic. (more info) 1. A state;
  • TAKE-OFF
    An imitation, especially in the way of caricature.
  • KEEP
    k, AS.c to keep, regard, desire, await, take, betake; cf. AS. 1. To care; to desire. I kepe not of armes for to yelp . Chaucer. 2. To hold; to restrain from departure or removal; not to let go of; to retain in one's power or possession; not to
  • COMMONITION
    Advice; warning; instruction. Bailey.
  • POSSESSIONARY
    Of or pertaining to possession; arising from possession.
  • THOUGHTFUL
    1. Full of thought; employed in meditation; contemplative; as, a man of thoughtful mind. War, horrid war, your thoughtful walks invades. Pope. 2. Attentive; careful; exercising the judgment; having the mind directed to an object; as, thoughtful
  • COMMONAGE
    The right of pasturing on a common; the right of using anything in common with others. The claim of comonage . . . in most of the forests. Burke.
  • KEEPER
    1. One who, or that which, keeps; one who, or that which, holds or has possession of anything. 2. One who retains in custody; one who has the care of a prison and the charge of prisoners. 3. One who has the care, custody, or superintendence of
  • UNCOMMON
    Not common; unusual; infrequent; rare; hence, remarkable; strange; as, an uncommon season; an uncommon degree of cold or heat; uncommon courage. Syn. -- Rare; scarce; infrequent; unwonted. -- Un*com"mon*ly, adv. -- Un*com"mon*ness, n.
  • SAFE-KEEPING
    The act of keeping or preserving in safety from injury or from escape; care; custody.
  • UNMISTAKABLE
    Incapable of being mistaken or misunderstood; clear; plain; obvious; evident. -- Un`mis*tak"a*bly, adv.
  • ABORIGINALLY
    Primarily.
  • FELLOW-COMMONER
    A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table.
  • INTERCOMMON
    To graze cattle promiscuously in the commons of each other, as the inhabitants of adjoining townships, manors, etc. (more info) 1. To share with others; to participate; especially, to eat at the same table. Bacon.
  • LEAVE-TAKING
    Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak.
  • MISTAKING
    An error; a mistake. Shak.
  • OUTKEEPER
    An attachment to a surveyor's compass for keeping tally in chaining.
  • INNKEEPER
    An innholder.
  • MISTAKINGLY
    Erroneously.
  • ENFORCIBLE
    That may be enforced.
  • REIMPRISON
    To imprison again.
  • BETHOUGHT
    imp. & p. p. of Bethink.
  • POUNDKEEPER; POUND-KEEPER
    The keeper of a pound.
  • OUTTAKE
    Except. R. of Brunne.

 

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