Word Meanings - ESCHEATAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The right of succeeding to an escheat. Sherwood.
Related words: (words related to ESCHEATAGE)
- RIGHT-RUNNING
Straight; direct. - SUCCEEDANT
Succeeding one another; following. - RIGHTEOUSNESS
The state of being right with God; justification; the work of Christ, which is the ground justification. There are two kinds of Christian righteousness: the one without us, which we have by imputation; the other in us, which consisteth of faith, - ESCHEATOR
An officer whose duty it is to observe what escheats have taken place, and to take charge of them. Burrill. - RIGHT
1. In a right manner. 2. In a right or straight line; directly; hence; straightway; immediately; next; as, he stood right before me; it went right to the mark; he came right out; he followed right after the guide. Unto Dian's temple goeth - SUCCEEDER
A successor. Shak. Tennyson. - RIGHT-ANGLED
Containing a right angle or right angles; as, a right-angled triangle. - RIGHTEOUS
Doing, or according with, that which is right; yielding to all their due; just; equitable; especially, free from wrong, guilt, or sin; holy; as, a righteous man or act; a righteous retribution. Fearless in his righteous cause. Milton. - RIGHTEN
To do justice to. Relieve the opressed. Isa. i. 17. - RIGHT-LINED
Formed by right lines; rectilineal; as, a right-lined angle. - RIGHT-MINDED
Having a right or honest mind. -- Right"-mind`ed*ness, n. - RIGHT-HANDED
Having the whorls rising from left to right; dextral; -- said of spiral shells. See Illust. of Scalaria. Right-handed screw, a screw, the threads of which, like those of a common wood screw, wind spirally in such a direction that screw advances - RIGHT-HEARTED
Having a right heart or disposition. -- Right"-heart`ed*ness, n. - RIGHTEOUSLY
In a righteous manner; as, to judge righteously. - SUCCEED
1. To come in the place of another person, thing, or event; to come next in the usual, natural, or prescribed course of things; to follow; hence, to come next in the possession of anything; -- often with to. If the father left only daughters, they - RIGHTNESS
Straightness; as, the rightness of a line. Bacon. 2. The quality or state of being right; right relation. The craving for rightness with God. J. C. Shairp. - SUCCEEDING
The act of one who, or that which, succeeds; also, that which succeeds, or follows after; consequence. Shak. - RIGHTLESS
Destitute of right. Sylvester. - ESCHEATAGE
The right of succeeding to an escheat. Sherwood. - ESCHEAT
escheit, escheoit, escheeite, esheoite, fr. escheoir to fall to, fall to the lot of; pref. es- + cheoir, F. choir, to The falling back or reversion of lands, by some casualty or accident, to the lord of the fee, in consequence of the extinction - BRIGHT
See I - CARTWRIGHT
An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker. - SPRIGHTLY
Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance. "Sprightly wit and love inspires." Dryden. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green. Pope. - 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. - SHRIGHT
imp. & p. p. of Shriek. She cried alway and shright. Chaucer. - UPRIGHTNESS
the quality or state of being upright. - OVERRIGHTEOUS
Excessively righteous; -- usually implying hypocrisy. - AFFRIGHTER
One who frightens. - EMBRIGHT
To brighten. - WRIGHT
One who is engaged in a mechanical or manufacturing business; an artificer; a workman; a manufacturer; a mechanic; esp., a worker in wood; -- now chiefly used in compounds, as in millwright, wheelwright, etc. He was a well good wright, a carpenter. - SELF-RIGHTEOUS
Righteous in one's own esteem; pharisaic. - SPRIGHTFUL
Full of spirit or of life; earnest; vivacious; lively; brisk; nimble; gay. -- Spright"ful*ly, adv. Shak. -- Spright"ful*ness, n. Spoke like a sprightful gentlemen. Shak. Steeds sprightful as the light. Cowley. - BEDRIGHT; BEDRITE
The duty or privilege of the marriage bed. Shak. - AFFRIGHTFUL
Terrifying; frightful. -- Af*fright"ful*ly, adv. Bugbears or affrightful apparitions. Cudworth.