Word Meanings - PARLIAMENTARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Of or pertaining to Parliament; as, parliamentary authority. Bacon. 2. Enacted or done by Parliament; as, a parliamentary act. Sir M. Hale. 3. According to the rules and usages of Parliament or of deliberative bodies; as, a parliamentary motion.

Additional info about word: PARLIAMENTARY

1. Of or pertaining to Parliament; as, parliamentary authority. Bacon. 2. Enacted or done by Parliament; as, a parliamentary act. Sir M. Hale. 3. According to the rules and usages of Parliament or of deliberative bodies; as, a parliamentary motion. Parliamentary agent, a person, usually a solicitor, professionally employed by private parties to explain and recommend claims, bills, etc., under consideration of Parliament. -- Parliamentary train, one of the trains which, by act of Parliament, railway companies are required to run for the conveyance of third-class passengers at a reduced rate.

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• BACON
  The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle , a beetle which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's
• BACONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction.
• ENACTMENT
  1. The passing of a bill into a law; the giving of legislative sanction and executive approval to a bill whereby it is established as a law. 2. That which is enacted or passed into a law; a law; a decree; a statute; a prescribed requirement; as,
• ENACTURE
  Enactment; resolution. Shak.
• MOTIONER
  One who makes a motion; a mover. Udall.
• MOTIONIST
  A mover.
• ACCORDANCY
  Accordance. Paley.
• ACCORDANTLY
  In accordance or agreement; agreeably; conformably; -- followed by with or to.
• ACCORDER
  One who accords, assents, or concedes.
• ACCORDINGLY
  1. Agreeably; correspondingly; suitably; in a manner conformable. Behold, and so proceed accordingly. Shak. 2. In natural sequence; consequently; so. Syn. -- Consequently; therefore; wherefore; hence; so. -- Accordingly, Consequently, indicate
• ACCORDING
  Agreeing; in agreement or harmony; harmonious. "This according voice of national wisdom." Burke. "Mind and soul according well." Tennyson. According to him, every person was to be bought. Macaulay. Our zeal should be according to knowledge. Sprat.
• ENACTOR
  One who enacts a law; one who decrees or establishes as a law. Atterbury.
• MOTION PICTURE
  A moving picture.
• ACCORDMENT
  Agreement; reconcilement. Gower.
• MOTIONLESS
  Without motion; being at rest.
• AUTHORITY
  1. Legal or rightful power; a right to command or to act; power exercised buy a person in virtue of his office or trust; dominion; jurisdiction; authorization; as, the authority of a prince over subjects, and of parents over children; the authority
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• PARLIAMENTARY
  1. Of or pertaining to Parliament; as, parliamentary authority. Bacon. 2. Enacted or done by Parliament; as, a parliamentary act. Sir M. Hale. 3. According to the rules and usages of Parliament or of deliberative bodies; as, a parliamentary motion.
• MOTION
  An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or rule directing some act to be done in favor of the applicant. Mozley & W. (more info) 1. The act, process, or state of changing place or position;
• PARLIAMENTAL
  Parliamentary.
• EXCITO-MOTION
  Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
• NERVIMOTION
  The movement caused in the sensory organs by external agents and transmitted to the muscles by the nerves. Dunglison.
• IDEO-MOTION
  An ideo-motor movement.
• BON-ACCORD
  Good will; good fellowship; agreement.
• REENACT
  To enact again.