Word Meanings - REPRESENTATIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Giving, or existing as, a transcript of what was originally presentative knowledge; as, representative faculties; representative knowledge. See Presentative, 3 and Represent, 8. (more info) 1. Fitted to represent; exhibiting a similitude.
Additional info about word: REPRESENTATIVE
Giving, or existing as, a transcript of what was originally presentative knowledge; as, representative faculties; representative knowledge. See Presentative, 3 and Represent, 8. (more info) 1. Fitted to represent; exhibiting a similitude. 2. Bearing the character or power of another; acting for another or others; as, a council representative of the people. Swift. 3. Conducted by persons chosen to represent, or act as deputies for, the people; as, a representative government. Serving or fitted to present the full characters of the type of a group; typical; as, a representative genus in a family. Similar in general appearance, structure, and habits, but living in different regions; -- said of certain species and varieties.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of REPRESENTATIVE)
- Deputy
- Vicegerent
- lieutenant
- representative
- agent
- commissioner
- legate
- envoy
- delegate
- proxy
- substitute
- Exponent
- Interpreter
- propounder
- advocate
- Proxy
- Agency
- substitution
- representation
- deputy
- Vicarious
- Substitutive
- deputed
- delegated
- procuratorial
Related words: (words related to REPRESENTATIVE)
- ADVOCATE
advocatus, one summoned or called to another; properly the p. p. of advocare to call to, call to one's aid; ad + vocare to call. See 1. One who pleads the cause of another. Specifically: One who pleads the cause of another before a tribunal or - DEPUTABLE
Fit to be deputed; suitable to act as a deputy. Carlyle. - EXPONENT
A number, letter, or any quantity written on the right hand of and above another quantity, and denoting how many times the latter is repeated as a factor to produce the power indicated; Note: thus a2 denotes the second power, and an the xth power, - LEGATESHIP
The office of a legate. - LEGATE
commission or charge, to depute, fr. lex, legis, law: cf. F. légat, 1. An ambassador or envoy. 2. An ecclesiastic representing the pope and invested with the authority of the Holy See. Note: Legates are of three kinds: Legates a latere, now - VICARIOUS
Acting as a substitute; -- said of abnormal action which replaces a suppressed normal function; as, vicarious hemorrhage replacing menstruation. (more info) turn, the position, place, or office of one person as assumed by another; akin - LEGATEE
One to whom a legacy is bequeathed. - SUBSTITUTIONAL
Of or pertaining to substitution; standing in the place of another; substituted. -- Sub`sti*tu"tion*al*ly, adv. - SUBSTITUTED
Containing substitutions or replacements; having been subjected to the process of substitution, or having some of its parts replaced; as, alcohol is a substituted water; methyl amine is a substituted ammonia. Substituted executor , an executor - AGENT
Actingpatient, or sustaining, action. "The body agent." Bacon. (more info) Gr. aka to drive, Skr. aj. - SUBSTITUTIONARY
Of or pertaining to substitution; substitutional. - DELEGATION
A kind of novation by which a debtor, to be liberated from his creditor, gives him a third person, who becomes obliged in his stead to the creditor, or to the person appointed by him. Pothier. (more info) 1. The act of delegating, or investing - PROPOUNDER
One who propounds, proposes, or offers for consideration. Chillingworth. - LIEUTENANT
of tenir to hold, L. tenere. See Lieu, and Tenant, and cf. Locum 1. An officer who supplies the place of a superior in his absence; a representative of, or substitute for, another in the performance of any duty. The lawful magistrate, who is the - DEPUTATION
1. The act of deputing, or of appointing or commissioning a deputy or representative; office of a deputy or delegate; vicegerency. The authority of conscience stands founded upon its vicegerency and deputation under God. South. 2. The person or - REPRESENTATIVELY
In a representative manner; vicariously. - SUBSTITUTE
One who, or that which, is substituted or put in the place of another; one who acts for another; that which stands in lieu of something else; specifically , (more info) under, put in the place of; sub under + statuere to put, place: cf. - DELEGATE
delegate; de- + legare to send with a commission, to depute. See 1. Any one sent and empowered to act for another; one deputed to represent; a chosen deputy; a representative; a commissioner; a vicar. One elected by the people of a territory to - LIEUTENANT GENERAL
. An army officer in rank next below a general and next above a major general. Note: In the United States, before the civil war, this rank had been conferred only on George Washington and on Winfield Scott. In 1864 it was revived by Congress and - DELEGATORY
Holding a delegated position. Nash. - INTERAGENT
An intermediate agent. - SUBDELEGATE
A subordinate delegate, or one with inferior powers. - SUBLIEUTENANT
An inferior or second lieutenant; in the British service, a commissioned officer of the lowest rank. - ABLEGATE
To send abroad. Bailey. - INTERAGENCY
Intermediate agency. - MISINTERPRETER
One who interprets erroneously.