Word Meanings - OFFICIALTY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The charge, office, court, or jurisdiction of an official.

• Court tennis
  See under Tennis.
• COURTCRAFT
  The artifices, intrigues, and plottings, at courts.
• Courtesied
  of Courtesy
• Courtesying
  of Courtesy
• Courtyard
  A court or inclosure attached to a house.
• COURTCUPBOARD
  A movable sideboard or buffet, on which plate and other articles of luxury were displayed on special ocasions. [Obs.] A way with the joint stools, remove the court-cupboard, look to the plate. Shak.
• Courtehouse
  A house in which established courts are held, or a house appropriated to courts and public meetings.
• Jurisdiction
  The legal power, right, or authority of a particular court to hear and determine causes, to try criminals, or to execute justice; judicial authority over a cause or class of causes; as, certain suits or actions, or the cognizance of certain crimes
• COURTELLE
  a wool-like fabric. [WordNet 1.5]
• Jurisdictional
  Of or pertaining to jurisdiction; as jurisdictional rights.
• COURTLEET
  A court of record held once a year, in a particular hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet. Blackstone.
• Court-baron
  An inferior court of civil jurisdiction, attached to a manor, and held by the steward; a baron's court; -- now fallen into disuse.
• Courtiery
  The manners of a courtier; courtliness.

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