muniment

  • 31record — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Keeping as evidence Nouns 1. record, note, minute; register, poll, diptych, entry, memorandum, copy, duplicate, docket; muniment, deed; document, chart, matter of record; testimony, deposition, affidavit …

    English dictionary for students

  • 32Record — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Record >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 trace trace vestige relic remains Sgm: N 1 scar scar cicatrix Sgm: N 1 footstep footstep footmark footprint Sgm: N 1 pug …

    English dictionary for students

  • 33Security — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Security >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 security security Sgm: N 1 guaranty guaranty guarantee Sgm: N 1 gage gage warranty bond tie pledge plight mortgage debenture …

    English dictionary for students

  • 34ammunition — [17] Ammunition is one of many words which resulted from a mistaken analysis of ‘article’ plus ‘noun’ (compare ADDER). In this case, French la munition ‘the munitions, the supplies’ was misapprehended as l’ammunition, and borrowed thus into… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 35mural — [16] The Latin for ‘wall’ was mūrus, derivatives of which have given English immure [16] and mural. It came from an earlier form moerus, to which was related moenia ‘walls’, source of the verb mūnīre ‘fortify, defend’. This has given English… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 36ammunition — [17] Ammunition is one of many words which resulted from a mistaken analysis of ‘article’ plus ‘noun’ (compare ADDER). In this case, French la munition ‘the munitions, the supplies’ was misapprehended as l’ammunition, and borrowed thus into… …

    Word origins

  • 37mural — [16] The Latin for ‘wall’ was mūrus, derivatives of which have given English immure [16] and mural. It came from an earlier form moerus, to which was related moenia ‘walls’, source of the verb mūnīre ‘fortify, defend’. This has given English… …

    Word origins

  • 38miniment — /minˈi mənt/ noun an obsolete form of ↑muniment * * * miniment obs. form of muniment …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 39Parish register — Register Reg is*ter (r?j ?s*t?r), n. [OE. registre, F. registre, LL. registrum,regestum, L. regesta, pl., fr. regerere, regestum, to carry back, to register; pref. re re + gerere to carry. See {Jest}, and cf. {Regest}.] 1. A written account or… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 40Register — Reg is*ter (r?j ?s*t?r), n. [OE. registre, F. registre, LL. registrum,regestum, L. regesta, pl., fr. regerere, regestum, to carry back, to register; pref. re re + gerere to carry. See {Jest}, and cf. {Regest}.] 1. A written account or entry; an… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English