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Allegement
Allegement Al*lege"ment, n.
Allegation. [Obs.]
With many complaints and allegements. --Bp.
Sanderson.
arrangementJacquard Jac*quard", a.
Pertaining to, or invented by, Jacquard, a French
mechanician, who died in 1834.
Jacquard apparatus or arrangement, a device applied to
looms for weaving figured goods, consisting of mechanism
controlled by a chain of variously perforated cards, which
cause the warp threads to be lifted in the proper
succession for producing the required figure.
Jacquard card, one of the perforated cards of a Jacquard
apparatus.
Jackquard loom, a loom with Jacquard apparatus. Assuagement
Assuagement As*suage"ment, n. [OF. assouagement, asuagement.]
Mitigation; abatement.
Avengement
Avengement A*venge"ment, n.
The inflicting of retributive punishment; satisfaction taken.
[R.] --Milton.
Besiegement
Besiegement Be*siege"ment, n.
The act of besieging, or the state of being besieged.
--Golding.
Disarrangement
Disarrangement Dis`ar*range"ment, n.
The act of disarranging, or the state of being disarranged;
confusion; disorder. --Cowper.
Disencouragement
Disencouragement Dis`en*cour"age*ment, n.
Discouragement. [Obs.] --Spectator.
Disobligement
Disobligement Dis`o*blige"ment, n.
Release from obligation. [Obs.]
Disparagement
Disparagement Dis*par"age*ment, n. [Cf. OF. desparagement.]
1. Matching any one in marriage under his or her degree;
injurious union with something of inferior excellence; a
lowering in rank or estimation. [Eng.]
And thought that match a foul disparagement.
--Spenser.
2. Injurious comparison with an inferior; a depreciating or
dishonoring opinion or insinuation; diminution of value;
dishonor; indignity; reproach; disgrace; detraction; --
commonly with to.
It ought to be no disparagement to a star that it is
not the sun. --South.
Imitation is a disparagement and a degradation in a
Christian minister. --I. Taylor.
Syn: Indignity; derogation; detraction; reproach; dishonor;
debasement; degradation; disgrace.
Divergement
Divergement Di*verge"ment, n.
Divergence.
Eggement
Eggement Eg"ge*ment, n. [Egg, v. t. + -ment.]
Instigation; incitement. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
Encouragement
Encouragement En*cour"age*ment, n. [Cf. F. encouragement.]
1. The act of encouraging; incitement to action or to
practice; as, the encouragement of youth in generosity.
All generous encouragement of arts. --Otway.
2. That which serves to incite, support, promote, or advance,
as favor, countenance, reward, etc.; incentive; increase
of confidence; as, the fine arts find little encouragement
among a rude people.
To think of his paternal care, Is a most sweet
encouragement to prayer. --Byron.
Endamagement
Endamagement En*dam"age*ment, n. [Cf. F. endommagement.]
Damage; injury; harm. [Obs.] --Shak.
EngagementEngagement En*gage"ment, n. [Cf. F. engagement.]
1. The act of engaging, pledging, enlisting, occupying, or
entering into contest.
2. The state of being engaged, pledged or occupied; specif.,
a pledge to take some one as husband or wife.
3. That which engages; engrossing occupation; employment of
the attention; obligation by pledge, promise, or contract;
an enterprise embarked in; as, his engagements prevented
his acceptance of any office.
Religion, which is the chief engagement of our
league. --Milton.
4. (Mil.) An action; a fight; a battle.
In hot engagement with the Moors. --Dryden.
5. (Mach.) The state of being in gear; as, one part of a
clutch is brought into engagement with the other part.
Syn: Vocation; business; employment; occupation; promise;
stipulation; betrothal; word; battle; combat; fight;
contest; conflict. See Battle. Engorgement
Engorgement En*gorge"ment, n. [Cf. F. engorgement.]
1. The act of swallowing greedily; a devouring with voracity;
a glutting.
2. (Med.) An overfullness or obstruction of the vessels in
some part of the system; congestion. --Hoblyn.
3. (Metal.) The clogging of a blast furnace.
Enlargement
Enlargement En*large"ment, n.
1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent;
the state of being increased; augmentation; further
extension; expansion.
2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind;
ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
enlargement of views, of knowledge, of affection.
3. A setting at large, or being set at large; release from
confinement, servitude, or distress; liberty.
Give enlargement to the swain. --Shak.
4. Diffusiveness of speech or writing; expatiation; a wide
range of discourse or argument.
An enlargement upon the vices and corruptions that
were got into the army. --Clarendon.
Enragement
Enragement En*rage"ment, n.
Act of enraging or state of being enraged; excitement. [Obs.]
Envisagement
Envisagement En*vis"age*ment, n.
The act of envisaging.
Estrangement
Estrangement Es*trange"ment, n. [Cf. OF. estrangement.]
The act of estranging, or the state of being estranged;
alienation.
An estrangement from God. --J. C.
Shairp.
A long estrangement from better things. --South.
ForgemenForgeman Forge"man, n.; pl. Forgemen.
A skilled smith, who has a hammerer to assist him. Impingement
Impingement Im*pinge"ment, n.
The act of impinging.
Incagement
Incagement In*cage"ment, n.
Confinement in, or as in, cage. [Obs.] --Shelton.
Indulgement
Indulgement In*dulge"ment, n.
Indulgence. [R.] --Wood.
Infringement
Infringement In*fringe"ment, n.
1. The act of infringing; breach; violation; nonfulfillment;
as, the infringement of a treaty, compact, law, or
constitution.
The punishing of this infringement is proper to that
jurisdiction against which the contempt is.
--Clarendon.
2. An encroachment on a patent, copyright, or other special
privilege; a trespass.
Interchangement
Interchangement In`ter*change"ment, n. [Cf. OF.
entrechangement.]
Mutual transfer; exchange. [Obs.] --Shak.
Jugement
Jugement Jug"e*ment, n.
Judgment. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
LedgementLedgement Ledge"ment (l[e^]j"ment), n.
See Ledgment. ledgementLedgment Ledg"ment (-ment), n. (Arch.)
(a) A string-course or horizontal suit of moldings, such
as the base moldings of a building. --Oxf. Gloss.
(b) The development of the surface of a body on a plane,
so that the dimensions of the different sides may be
easily ascertained. --Gwilt. [Written also
ledgement, legement, and ligement.] legementLedgment Ledg"ment (-ment), n. (Arch.)
(a) A string-course or horizontal suit of moldings, such
as the base moldings of a building. --Oxf. Gloss.
(b) The development of the surface of a body on a plane,
so that the dimensions of the different sides may be
easily ascertained. --Gwilt. [Written also
ledgement, legement, and ligement.] LegementLegement Lege"ment (-ment), n.
See Ledgment.
Meaning of Gemen from wikipedia
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Gemen was an immediate,
sovereign lordship of the Holy
Roman Empire, in the
Lower Rhine region.
Since Gemen had a vote in the
Imperial Diet it was also...
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Gemen, Oberstein, Styrum, etc. When the
branch of
Gemen became extinct in 1800, the
branch of
Styrum failed to
inherit their possessions, and
Gemen p****ed...
- Limburg-Styrum-
Gemen was a
county of
medieval Germany,
based in the
Lordship of
Gemen in
modern North Rhine-Westphalia. It was
partitioned from Limburg-Styrum...
- war,
community rearrangements followed in 1969,
including annexation of
Gemen and
other towns in the vicinity.
Between 1975 and 1978 came the cleaning...
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September 1785-5
December 1800) was
sovereign lord of the
immediate lordship of
Gemen. He was born in 1785, the son of
Count Johann of
Limburg Stirum and his...
- He was the
third son of
Adolf Ernst of
Limburg Stirum,
sovereign lord zu
Gemen. He
married in 1677
countess Maria Anna von
Rechberg and Rothenlöwen (died...
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state was "Prince of Salm-Kyrburg,
Sovereign Prince of Ahaus,
Bocholt and
Gemen,
Wildgrave of
Dhaun and Kyrburg,
Rhinegrave of Stein". The last prince,...
- (d.1606) and they had
issue Jobst Herman,
Count of
Schaumburg (born in
Gemen 6
October 1593); George; Agnes,
Abbess of
Elten (born 1564, died 1645);...
-
sovereign lord zu
Gemen, was the son of
Adolf Ernst of
Limburg Stirum and an
imperial Field Marshal. He
inherited the
immediate lordship of
Gemen in 1675, being...
- I of Limburg-Styrum,
count of
Limburg and Bronckhorst, lord of Styrum,
Gemen,
Wisch and Borculo, and from 1640 to 1644
advocate of the
imperial abbey...
