Word Meanings - CIVILSERVICECOMMISSION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In the United States, a commission appointed by the President, consisting of three members, not more than two of whom may be adherents of the same party, which has the control, through examinations, of appointments and promotions in the classified civil service. It was created by act of Jan, 16, 1883 (22 Stat. 403).

• Unitize
  To reduce to a unit, or one whole; to form into a unit; to unify.
• Commissional
  Alt. of Commissionary
• SERVICEUNIFORM
  The uniform prescribed in regulations for active or routine service, in distinction from dress, full dress, etc. In the United States army it is of olive-drab woolen or khaki-colored cotton, with all metal attachments of dull-finish bronze, with the exc
• Consistory
  Primarily, a place of standing or staying together; hence, any solemn assembly or council.
• THREEQUARTER
  Measuring thirty inches by twenty-five; -- said of portraitures. Three-quarter length, a portrait showing the figure to the hips only.
• Creatin
  A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance found abundantly in muscle tissue.
• Stateswomen
  of Stateswoman
• Three-pile
  An old name for the finest and most costly kind of velvet, having a fine, thick pile.
• Unitarianism
  The doctrines of Unitarians.
• Civilizable
  Capable of being civilized.
• Unitude
  Unity.
• Commissionary
  Of, pertaining to, or conferring, a commission; conferred by a commission or warrant.
• STATESOCIALISM
  A form of socialism, esp. advocated in Germany, which, while retaining the right of private property and the institution of the family and other features of the present form of the state, would intervene by various measures intended to give or maintain
• THREESCORE
  Thrice twenty; sixty.
• Creatinin
  A white, crystalline, nitrogenous body closely related to creatin but more basic in its properties, formed from the latter by the action of acids, and occurring naturally in muscle tissue and in urine.
• Party-coated
  Having a motley coat, or coat of divers colors.
• Stateswoman
  A woman concerned in public affairs.
• Three-piled
  Having the quality of three-pile; best; most costly.

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