Word Meanings - REVERSION - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The returning of an esttate to the grantor or his heirs, by operation of law, after the grant has terminated; hence, the residue of an estate left in the proprietor or owner thereof, to take effect in possession, by operation of law, after
Additional info about word: REVERSION
The returning of an esttate to the grantor or his heirs, by operation of law, after the grant has terminated; hence, the residue of an estate left in the proprietor or owner thereof, to take effect in possession, by operation of law, after the termination of a limited or less estate carved out of it and conveyed by him. Kent. 4. Hence, a right to future possession or enjoiment; succession. For even reversions are all begged before. Dryden. (more info) 1. The act of returning, or coming back; return. After his reversion home, was spoiled, also, of all that he brought with him. Foxe. 2. That which reverts or returns; residue. The small reversion of this great navy which came home might be looked upon by religious eyes as relics. Fuller.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of REVERSION)
- Lapse
- Gliding
- falling
- flow
- onflow
- flux
- progress
- escheatment
- devolution
- reversion
- elapsing
- Rotation
- Turn
- series
- order
- succession
- revolution
- course
- recurrence
Related words: (words related to REVERSION)
- FALLALS; FAL-LALS
Gay ornaments; frippery; gewgaws. Thackeray. - REVERSION
The returning of an esttate to the grantor or his heirs, by operation of law, after the grant has terminated; hence, the residue of an estate left in the proprietor or owner thereof, to take effect in possession, by operation of law, after - FALLER
A part which acts by falling, as a stamp in a fulling mill, or the device in a spinning machine to arrest motion when a thread breaks. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, falls. - ELAPS
A genus of venomous snakes found both in America and the Old World. Many species are known. See Coral snake, under Coral. - SERIES DYNAMO
A series-wound dynamo. A dynamo running in series with another or others. - PROGRESSIONAL
Of or pertaining to progression; tending to, or capable of, progress. - PROGRESS
to go forth or forward; pro forward + gradi to step, go: cf. F. 1. A moving or going forward; a proceeding onward; an advance; specifically: In actual space, as the progress of a ship, carriage, etc. In the growth of an animal or plant; increase. - COURSED
1. Hunted; as, a coursed hare. 2. Arranged in courses; as, coursed masonry. - FALLOW
Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground. Fallow chat, Fallow finch , a small European bird, the wheatear . See Wheatear. (more info) vaal fallow, faded, OHG. falo, G. falb, fahl, Icel. fölr, and prob. to Lith. - GLIDING MACHINE
A construction consisting essentially of one or more aëroplanes for gliding in an inclined path from a height to the ground. - COURSE
1. The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage. And when we had finished our course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais. Acts xxi. 7. 2. THe ground or path traversed; track; way. The same horse also run the round course at Newmarket. - SERIES MOTOR
A series-wound motor. A motor capable of being used in a series circuit. - REVERSIONER
One who has a reversion, or who is entitled to lands or tenements, after a particular estate granted is terminated. Blackstone. - ROTATION
1. The act of turning, as a wheel or a solid body on its axis, as distinguished from the progressive motion of a revolving round another body or a distant point; thus, the daily turning of the earth on its axis is a rotation; its annual motion - FALLOPIAN
Pertaining to, or discovered by, Fallopius; as, the Fallopian tubes or oviducts, the ducts or canals which conduct the ova from the ovaries to the uterus. - DEVOLUTION
1. The act of rolling down. The devolution of earth down upon the valleys. Woodward. 2. Transference from one person to another; a passing or devolving upon a successor. The devolution of the crown through a . . . channel known and conformable - PROGRESSION
Regular or proportional advance in increase or decrease of numbers; continued proportion, arithmetical, geometrical, or harmonic. (more info) 1. The act of moving forward; a proceeding in a course; motion onward. 2. Course; passage; lapse - FALLENCY
An exception. Jer. Taylor. - SUCCESSION
1. The act of succeeding, or following after; a following of things in order of time or place, or a series of things so following; sequence; as, a succession of good crops; a succession of disasters. 2. A series of persons or things according to - SERIES
Any comprehensive group of animals or plants including several subordinate related groups. Note: Sometimes a series includes several classes; sometimes only orders or families; in other cases only species. (more info) together; cf. Gr. - THRYFALLOW
To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser. - IMBORDER
To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton. - UNFALLIBLE
Infallible. Shak. - RECOURSEFUL
Having recurring flow and ebb; moving alternately. Drayton. - PROLAPSE
The falling down of a part through the orifice with which it is naturally connected, especially of the uterus or the rectum. Dunglison. - DELAPSE
To pass down by inheritance; to lapse. Which Anne derived alone the right, before all other, Of the delapsed crown from Philip. Drayton. - MISFALL
To befall, as ill luck; to happen to unluckily. Chaucer. - MISORDER
To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak. - BEFALL
To happen to. I beseech your grace that I may know The worst that may befall me. Shak. - INFALLIBLY
In an infallible manner; certainly; unfailingly; unerringly. Blair.