Word Meanings - PLAINTIFF - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who commences a personal action or suit to obtain a remedy for an injury to his rights; -- opposed to Ant: defendant. (more info) French equiv. to plaignant complainant, prosecutor, fr. plaindre. See

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• OPPOSABILITY
  The condition or quality of being opposable. In no savage have I ever seen the slightest approach to opposability of the great toe, which is the essential distinguishing feature of apes. A. R. Wallace.
• EQUIVOCATION
  The use of expressions susceptible of a double signification, with a purpose to mislead. There being no room for equivocations, there is no need of distinctions. Locke. Syn. -- Prevarication; ambiguity; shuffling; evasion; guibbling. See Equivocal,
• OPPOSITIONIST
  One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed.
• ACTION
  Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun. (more info) 1. A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of
• OBTAINABLE
  Capable of being obtained.
• OPPOSITIVE
  Capable of being put in opposition. Bp. Hall.
• OPPOSELESS
  Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. "Your great opposeless wills." Shak.
• ACTIONABLE
  That may be the subject of an action or suit at law; as, to call a man a thief is actionable.
• EQUIVALVE; EQUIVALVED
  Having the valves equal in size and from, as in most bivalve shells.
• OPPOSITIFOLIOUS
  Placed at the same node with a leaf, but separated from it by the whole diameter of the stem; as, an oppositifolious peduncle.
• PERSONAL
  Denoting person; as, a personal pronoun. Personal action , a suit or action by which a man claims a debt or personal duty, or damages in lieu of it; or wherein he claims satisfaction in damages for an injury to his person or property,
• FRENCH
  Of or pertaining to France or its inhabitants. French bean , the common kidney bean . -- French berry , the berry of a species of buckthorn (Rhamnus catharticus), which affords a saffron, green or purple pigment. -- French casement See French
• EQUIVOCALLY
  In an equivocal manner.
• EQUIVOCATOR
  One who equivocates. Here's an equivocator that could swear in both the scales against either scale, yet could not equivocate to heaven. Shak.
• OPPOSABLE
  1. Capable of being opposed or resisted. 2. Capable of being placed opposite something else; as, the thumb is opposable to the forefinger.
• EQUIVALENTLY
  In an equal manner.
• PERSONALLY
  1. In a personal manner; by bodily presence; in person; not by representative or substitute; as, to deliver a letter personally. He, being cited, personally came not. Grafton. 2. With respect to an individual; as regards the person; individually;
• EQUIVOCACY
  Equivocalness.
• COMPLAINANT
  1. One who makes complaint. Eager complainants of the dispute. Collier. One who commences a legal process by a complaint. The party suing in equity, answering to the plaintiff at common law. He shall forfeit one moiety to the use of the town, and
• EQUIVALUE
  To put an equal value upon; to put on a par with another thing. W. Taylor.
• INEQUIVALVE; INEQUIVALVULAR
  Having unequal valves, as the shell of an oyster.
• REACTIONIST
  A reactionary. C. Kingsley.
• MADEFACTION; MADEFICATION
  The act of madefying, or making wet; the state of that which is made wet. Bacon.
• REDACTION
  The act of redacting; work produced by redacting; a digest.
• CHYLIFACTION
  The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process.
• REOBTAINABLE
  That may be reobtained.
• FACTION
  One of the divisions or parties of charioteers (distinguished by their colors) in the games of the circus. 2. A party, in political society, combined or acting in union, in opposition to the government, or state; -- usually applied to a minority,
• UNIPERSONAL
  Used in only one person, especially only in the third person, as some verbs; impersonal. (more info) 1. Existing as one, and only one, person; as, a unipersonal God.
• DISTRACTION
  1. The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation. To create distractions among us. Bp. Burnet. 2. That which diverts attention; a diversion. "Domestic distractions." G. Eliot. 3. A diversity of direction; detachment. His power went out in
• REFACTION
  Recompense; atonemet; retribution. Howell.
• COLLIQUEFACTION
  A melting together; the reduction of different bodies into one mass by fusion. The incorporation of metals by simple colliquefaction. Bacon.
• DIRECT ACTION
  See BELOW
• UNDERACTION
  Subordinate action; a minor action incidental or subsidiary to the main story; an episode. The least episodes or underactions . . . are parts necessary or convenient to carry on the main design. Dryden.
• ABSTRACTION
  The act process of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others; analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or
• SUBSTRACTION
  See 3 (more info) 1. Subtraction; deduction.
• SUBTRACTION
  The taking of a lesser number or quantity from a greater of the same kind or denomination; an operation for finding the difference between two numbers or quantities. (more info) 1. The act or operation of subtracting or taking away a part.