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.

• Passacaglia
  Alt. of Passacaglio
• Thew
  Manner; custom; habit; form of behavior; qualities of mind; disposition; specifically, good qualities; virtues.
• THERIACTHERIACAL
  Of or pertaining to theriac; medicinal. "Theriacal herbs." Bacon.
• Thanatology
  A description, or the doctrine, of death.
• Thomaism
  The doctrine of Thomas Aquinas, esp. with respect to predestination and grace.
• Theologized
  of Theologize
• Three-quarter
  Measuring thirty inches by twenty-five; -- said of portraitures.
• Civilizable
  Capable of being civilized.
• Thwite
  To cut or clip with a knife; to whittle.
• Passer-by
  One who goes by; a passer.
• Thickhead
  A thick-headed or stupid person.
• THERMONEUTRALITY
  Neutrality as regards heat effects.
• Thankworthiness
  The quality or state of being thankworthy.
• Thoracostraca
  An extensive division of Crustacea, having a dorsal shield or carapec/ //niting all, or nearly all, of the thoracic somites to the head. It includes the crabs, lobsters, shrimps, and similar species.
• Theophilanthropism
  The doctrine of the theophilanthropists; theophilanthropy.
• Thresh-fold
  Threshold.
• Constitution
  The act or process of constituting; the action of enacting, establishing, or appointing; enactment; establishment; formation.
• Therefore
  For that or this reason, referring to something previously stated; for that.
• Thyrohyoid
  Of or pertaining to the thyroid cartilage of the larynx and the hyoid arch.
• Passionately
  In a passionate manner; with strong feeling; ardently.

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