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Benignancy
Benignancy Be*nig"nan*cy, n.
Benignant quality; kindliness.
Consonancy
Consonance Con"so*nance, Consonancy Con"so*nan*cy, n. [L.
consonantia: cf. F. consonnance.]
1. (Mus.) Accord or agreement of sounds produced
simultaneously, as a note with its third, fifth, and
eighth.
2. Agreement or congruity; harmony; accord; consistency;
suitableness.
The perfect consonancy of our persecuted church to
the doctrines of Scripture and antiquity. --Hammond.
The optic nerve responds to the waves with which it
is in consonance. --Tyndall.
3. Friendship; concord. [Obs.]
By the consonancy of our youth. --Shak.
Syn: Agreement; accord; consistency; unison; harmony;
congruity; suitableness; agreeableness.
Dissonancy
Dissonancy Dis"so*nan*cy, n.
Discord; dissonance.
Dominancy
Dominance Dom"i*nance, Dominancy Dom"i*nan*cy, n.
Predominance; ascendency; authority.
Extra-uterine pregnancyExtra-uterine Ex`tra-u"ter*ine, a. (Anat. & Med.)
Outside of the uterus, or womb.
Extra-uterine pregnancy (Med.), a condition of pregnancy in
which the fetus is not in the uterus, but in the Fallopian
tube or in the abdominal cavity. Fritinancy
Fritinancy Frit"i*nan*cy, n. [L. fritinnire to twitter.]
A chirping or creaking, as of a cricket. [Obs.] --Sir T.
Browne.
Inconsonancy
Inconsonance In*con"so*nance, Inconsonancy In*con"so*nan*cy,
n.
Want of consonance or harmony of sound, action, or thought;
disagreement.
Indignancy
Indignance In*dig"nance, Indignancy In*dig"nan*cy, n.
Indignation. [Obs.] --Spenser.
Joint tenancyJoint Joint, a. [F., p. p. of joindre. See Join.]
1. Joined; united; combined; concerted; as joint action.
2. Involving the united activity of two or more; done or
produced by two or more working together.
I read this joint effusion twice over. --T. Hook.
3. United, joined, or sharing with another or with others;
not solitary in interest or action; holding in common with
an associate, or with associates; acting together; as,
joint heir; joint creditor; joint debtor, etc. ``Joint
tenants of the world.' --Donne.
4. Shared by, or affecting two or more; held in common; as,
joint property; a joint bond.
A joint burden laid upon us all. --Shak.
Joint committee (Parliamentary Practice), a committee
composed of members of the two houses of a legislative
body, for the appointment of which concurrent resolutions
of the two houses are necessary. --Cushing.
Joint meeting, or Joint session, the meeting or session
of two distinct bodies as one; as, a joint meeting of
committees representing different corporations; a joint
session of both branches of a State legislature to chose a
United States senator. ``Such joint meeting shall not be
dissolved until the electoral votes are all counted and
the result declared.' --Joint Rules of Congress, U. S.
Joint resolution (Parliamentary Practice), a resolution
adopted concurrently by the two branches of a legislative
body. ``By the constitution of the United States and the
rules of the two houses, no absolute distinction is made
between bills and joint resolutions.' --Barclay (Digest).
Joint rule (Parliamentary Practice), a rule of proceeding
adopted by the concurrent action of both branches of a
legislative assembly. ``Resolved, by the House of
Representatives (the Senate concurring), that the
sixteenth and seventeenth joint rules be suspended for the
remainder of the session.' --Journal H. of R., U. S.
Joint and several (Law), a phrase signifying that the debt,
credit, obligation, etc., to which it is applied is held
in such a way that the parties in interest are engaged
both together and individually thus a joint and several
debt is one for which all the debtors may be sued together
or either of them individually.
Joint stock, stock held in company.
Joint-stock company (Law), a species of partnership,
consisting generally of a large number of members, having
a capital divided, or agreed to be divided, into shares,
the shares owned by any member being usually transferable
without the consent of the rest.
Joint tenancy (Law), a tenure by two or more persons of
estate by unity of interest, title, time, and possession,
under which the survivor takes the whole. --Blackstone.
Joint tenant (Law), one who holds an estate by joint
tenancy. Lieutenancy
Lieutenancy Lieu*ten"an*cy (l[-u]*t[e^]n"an*s[y^]; 277), n.
1. The office, rank, or commission, of a lieutenant.
2. The body of lieutenants or subordinates. [Obs.]
The list of the lieutenancy of our metropolis.
--Felton.
MalignancyMalignance Ma*lig"nance, Malignancy Ma*lig"nan*cy, n. [See
Malignant.]
1. The state or quality of being malignant; extreme
malevolence; bitter enmity; malice; as, malignancy of
heart.
2. Unfavorableness; evil nature.
The malignancy of my fate might perhaps distemner
yours. --Shak.
3. (Med.) Virulence; tendency to a fatal issue; as, the
malignancy of an ulcer or of a fever.
4. The state of being a malignant.
Syn: Malice; malevolence; malignity. See Malice. OppugnancyOppugnancy Op*pug"nan*cy, n. [See Oppugnant.]
The act of oppugning; opposition; resistance. --Shak. Pernancy
Pernancy Per"nan*cy, n. [OF. prenance, fr. prendre, prenre,
penre, to take, L. prendere, prehendere.] (Law)
A taking or reception, as the receiving of rents or tithes in
kind, the receiving of profits. --Blackstone.
Poignancy
Poignancy Poign"an*cy, n.
The quality or state of being poignant; as, the poignancy of
satire; the poignancy of grief. --Swift.
Predominancy
Predominancy Pre*dom"i*nan*cy, n.
Predominance. --Bacon.
Pregnancy
Pregnancy Preg"nan*cy, n.
1. The condition of being pregnant; the state of being with
young.
2. Figuratively: The quality of being heavy with important
contents, issue, significance, etc.; unusual consequence
or capacity; fertility. --Fuller.
Regnancy
Regnancy Reg"nan*cy (-nan*s?), n.
The condition or quality of being regnant; sovereignty; rule.
--Coleridge.
Resonancy
Resonancy Res"o*nan*cy (-nan-s?), n.
Resonance.
SquinancySquinance Squin"ance, Squinancy Squin"an*cy, n. [F.
esquinancie, OF. squinance, esquinance. See Quinsy.]
1. (Med.) The quinsy. See Quinsy. [Obs.]
2. (Bot.) A European perennial herb (Asperula cynanchica)
with narrowly linear whorled leaves; -- formerly thought
to cure the quinsy. Also called quincewort.
Squinancy berries, black currants; -- so called because
used to cure the quinsy. --Dr. Prior. squinancyQuinsy Quin"sy, n. [Contr. fr. squinancy, F. esquinancie, L.
cynanche a sort of sore throat, Gr. ? sore throat, dog
quinsy, fr. ? dog + ? to choke; cf. also L. synanche sore
throat, Gr. ?. Cf. Hound, Anger, and Cynanche.] (Med.)
An inflammation of the throat, or parts adjacent, especially
of the fauces or tonsils, attended by considerable swelling,
painful and impeded deglutition, and accompanied by
inflammatory fever. It sometimes creates danger of
suffocation; -- called also squinancy, and squinzey. Squinancy berriesSquinance Squin"ance, Squinancy Squin"an*cy, n. [F.
esquinancie, OF. squinance, esquinance. See Quinsy.]
1. (Med.) The quinsy. See Quinsy. [Obs.]
2. (Bot.) A European perennial herb (Asperula cynanchica)
with narrowly linear whorled leaves; -- formerly thought
to cure the quinsy. Also called quincewort.
Squinancy berries, black currants; -- so called because
used to cure the quinsy. --Dr. Prior. Stagnancy
Stagnancy Stag"nan*cy, n.
State of being stagnant.
SubordinancySubordinance Sub*or"di*nance, Subordinancy Sub*or"di*nan*cy,
n. [Pref. sub + L. ordinans, p. pr. of ordinare. See
Subordinate, a.]
Subordinacy; subordination. [Obs.] --Dr. H. More. Sir W.
Temple. TenancyTenancy Ten"an*cy, n.; pl. Tenacies. [Cf. OF. tenace, LL.
tenentia. See Tenant.] (Law)
(a) A holding, or a mode of holding, an estate; tenure; the
temporary possession of what belongs to another.
(b) (O. Eng. Law) A house for habitation, or place to live
in, held of another. --Blount. Blackstone. Wharton. Undertenancy
Undertenancy Un"der*ten`an*cy, n.
Tenancy or tenure under a tenant or lessee; the tenure of an
undertenant.
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