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Word Meanings - LEGITIMIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who supports legitimate authority; esp., one who believes in hereditary monarchy, as a divine right. 2. Specifically, a supporter of the claims of the elder branch of the Bourbon dynasty to the crown of France.

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  • RIGHT-RUNNING
    Straight; direct.
  • CROWN SIDE
    See OFFICE
  • CROWNED
    1. Having or wearing a crown; surmounted, invested, or adorned, with a crown, wreath, garland, etc.; honored; rewarded; completed; consummated; perfected. "Crowned with one crest." Shak. "Crowned with conquest." Milton. With surpassing
  • BRANCHIOSTOMA
    The lancelet. See Amphioxus.
  • CROWNER
    A coroner. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, crowns. Beau. & FL. 2. Etym:
  • ELDERLY
    Somewhat old; advanced beyond middle age; bordering on old age; as, elderly people.
  • 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,
  • CROWNLAND
    In Austria-Hungary, one of the provinces, or largest administrative divisions of the monarchy; as, the crownland of Lower Austria.
  • SPECIFICALLY
    In a specific manner.
  • BRANCHLESS
    Destitude of branches or shoots; without any valuable product; barren; naked.
  • CROWN OFFICE
    The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases. Burrill.
  • BRANCHING
    Furnished with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches. Shaded with branching palm. Milton.
  • BRANCHIOPODA
    An order of Entomostraca; -- so named from the feet of branchiopods having been supposed to perform the function of gills. It includes the fresh-water genera Branchipus, Apus, and Limnadia, and the genus Artemia found in salt lakes. It
  • BRANCHINESS
    Fullness of branches.
  • CROWN-SAW
    A saw in the form of a hollow cylinder, with teeth on the end or edge, and operated by a rotative motion. Note: The trephine was the first of the class of crownsaws. Knight.
  • DIVINER
    1. One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means. The diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain. Zech. x. 2. 2. A conjecture; a guesser; one
  • RIGHT-ANGLED
    Containing a right angle or right angles; as, a right-angled triangle.
  • CROWNLESS
    Without a crown.
  • 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.
  • LEGITIMATE
    1. Accordant with law or with established legal forms and requirements; lawful; as, legitimate government; legitimate rights; the legitimate succession to the throne; a legitimate proceeding of an officer; a legitimate heir. 2. Lawfully begotten;
  • TECTIBRANCHIA
    See TECTIBRANCHIATA
  • NUDIBRANCHIATA
    A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks, having no shell except while very young. The gills are naked and situated upon the back or sides. See Ceratobranchia.
  • ABRANCHIAL
    Abranchiate.
  • BRIGHT
    See I
  • PYGOBRANCHIA
    A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks having the branchiæ in a wreath or group around the anal opening, as in the genus Doris.
  • PODOBRANCH
    One of branchiæ attached to the bases of the legs in Crustacea.
  • ASPIDOBRANCHIA
    A group of Gastropoda, with limpetlike shells, including the abalone shells and keyhole limpets.
  • LAMELLIBRANCHIATE
    Having lamellar gills; belonging to the Lamellibranchia. -- n.
  • EPIBRANCHIAL
    Pertaining to the segment between the ceratobranchial and pharyngobranchial in a branchial arch. -- n.
  • HYPOBRANCHIAL
    Pertaining to the segment between the basibranchial and the ceratobranchial in a branchial arch. -- n.
  • PULMOBRANCHIATA; PULMOBRANCHIATE
    See -ATE (more info) & n.
  • PERENNIBRANCHIATE
    Having branchæ, or gills, through life; -- said especially of certain Amphibia, like the menobranchus. Opposed to caducibranchiate.
  • CARTWRIGHT
    An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker.
  • TECTIBRANCHIATE
    Having the gills covered by the mantle; of or pertaining to the Tectibranchiata. -- n.
  • SCYPHOBRANCHII
    An order of fishes including the blennioid and gobioid fishes, and other related families.

 

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