Word Meanings - EXPOSTFACTOEXPOSTFACTO - Book Publishers vocabulary database

From or by an after act, or thing done afterward; in consequence of a subsequent act; retrospective. Ex post facto law, a law which operates by after enactment. The phrase is popularly applied to any law, civil or criminal, which is enacted with a retrospective effect, and with intention to produce that effect; but in its true application, as employed in American law, it relates only to crimes, and signifies a law which retroacts, by way of criminal punishment, upon that which was not a crime before its passage, or which raises the grade of an offense, or renders an act punishable in a more severe manner that it was when committed. Ex post facto laws are held to be contrary to the fundamental principles of a free government, and the States are prohibited from passing such laws by the Constitution of the United States. Burrill. Kent.

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  To cut or clip with a knife; to whittle.
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  Producing heat; thermogenic.
• Passacaglia
  Alt. of Passacaglio
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  Neutrality as regards heat effects.
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• Thanatology
  A description, or the doctrine, of death.
• Thrasher
  Alt. of Thresher
• Theologized
  of Theologize
• Throttle
  The windpipe, or trachea; the weasand.
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  Capable of being civilized.
• Thyrohyoid
  Of or pertaining to the thyroid cartilage of the larynx and the hyoid arch.
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  A self-acting apparatus for regulating temperature by the unequal expansion of different metals, liquids, or gases by heat, as in opening or closing the damper of a stove, or the like, as the heat becomes greater or less than is desired.
• Passer-by
  One who goes by; a passer.
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  Having a thick skin; hence, not sensitive; dull; obtuse. Holland.
• Thirling
  of Thirl
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  The quality or state of being thankworthy.
• Threadiness
  Quality of being thready.
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  One of the ends of weaver's threads; hence, any soft, short threads or tufts resembling these.
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  The act or process of constituting; the action of enacting, establishing, or appointing; enactment; establishment; formation.

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