Word Meanings - CANDIDATING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The taking of the position of a candidate; specifically, the preaching of a clergyman with a view to settlement.

• Settlement
  The act of setting, or the state of being settled.
• Specifically
  In a specific manner.
• Candidate
  One who offers himself, or is put forward by others, as a suitable person or an aspirant or contestant for an office, privilege, or honor; as, a candidate for the office of governor; a candidate for holy orders; a candidate for scholastic honors.
• Candidateship
  Candidacy.
• Clergyman
  An ordained minister; a man regularly authorized to preach the gospel, and administer its ordinances; in England usually restricted to a minister of the Established Church.
• Position
  The state of being posited, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined, or an upright position.
• Take-in
  Imposition; fraud.
• Positional
  Of or pertaining to position.
• Preached
  of Preach
• Take-off
  An imitation, especially in the way of caricature.
• Preaching
  of Preach
• Take-up
  That which takes up or tightens; specifically, a device in a sewing machine for drawing up the slack thread as the needle rises, in completing a stitch.
• Preacher
  One who preaches; one who discourses publicly on religious subjects.
• Taking-off
  Removal; murder. See To take off (c), under Take, v. t.

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