Word Meanings - MUNICIPAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

particularly in Italy, which possessed the right of Roman citizenship, but was governed by its own laws, a free town, fr. municeps an inhabitant of a free town, a free citizen; munia official duties, functions + capere to take: cf. F. municipal.

Additional info about word: MUNICIPAL

particularly in Italy, which possessed the right of Roman citizenship, but was governed by its own laws, a free town, fr. municeps an inhabitant of a free town, a free citizen; munia official duties, functions + capere to take: cf. F. municipal. Cf. Immunity, 1. Of or pertaining to a city or a corporation having the right of administering local government; as, municipal rights; municipal officers. 2. Of or pertaining to a state, kingdom, or nation. Municipal law is properly defined to be a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state. Blackstone.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MUNICIPAL)

• Civic
• Municipal
• corporate
• urbane
• oppidan

Related words: (words related to MUNICIPAL)

• URBANE
  Courteous in manners; polite; refined; elegant.
• CIVIC
  Relating to, or derived from, a city or citizen; relating to man as a member of society, or to civil affairs. Civic crown (Rom. Antiq.), a crown or garland of oak leaves and acorns, bestowed on a soldier who had saved the life of a citizen
• CORPORATE
  1. Formed into a body by legal enactment; united in an association, and endowed by law with the rights and liabilities of an individual; incorporated; as, a corporate town. 2. Belonging to a corporation or incorporated body. "Corporate property."
• MUNICIPALLY
  In a municipal relation or condition.
• CIVICISM
  The principle of civil government.
• MUNICIPALISM
  Municipal condition.
• CIVICS
  The science of civil government.
• MUNICIPALIZE
  To bring under municipal oversight or control; as, a municipalized industry. London people are now determined to centralize and to municipalize such services. The Century.
• CORPORATELY
  1. In a corporate capacity; acting as a coprporate body. 2. In, or as regarda, the body. Fabyan.
• OPPIDAN
  Of or pertaining to a town. Howell.
• MUNICIPAL
  particularly in Italy, which possessed the right of Roman citizenship, but was governed by its own laws, a free town, fr. municeps an inhabitant of a free town, a free citizen; munia official duties, functions + capere to take: cf. F. municipal.
• MUNICIPALITY
  A municipal district; a borough, city, or incorporated town or village.
• BICORPORATE
  Double-bodied, as a lion having one head and two bodies.
• TRICORPORAL; TRICORPORATE
  Represented with three bodies conjoined to one head, as a lion.
• DISINCORPORATE
  1. To deprive of corporate powers, rights, or privileges; to divest of the condition of a corporate body. 2. To detach or separate from a corporation. Bacon.
• INCORPORATED
  United in one body; formed into a corporation; made a legal entity.
• ANTICIVIC
  Opposed to citizenship.
• INURBANE
  Uncivil; unpolished; rude. M. Arnold. -- In`ur*bane"ly, adv. -- In`ur*bane"ness, n.
• INCORPORATE
  1. Not consisting of matter; not having a material body; incorporeal; spiritual. Moses forbore to speak of angles, and things invisible, and incorporate. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. Not incorporated; not existing as a corporation; as, an incorporate banking
• TRANSCORPORATE
  To transmigrate. Sir T. Browne.
• ACCORPORATE
  To unite; to attach; to incorporate. Milton.
• DISCORPORATE
  Deprived of the privileges or form of a body corporate. Jas. II.
• REINCORPORATE
  To incorporate again.