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Dissettlement
Dissettlement Dis*set"tle*ment, n.
The act of unsettling, or the state of being unsettled.
--Marvell.
Marriage settlementMarriage Mar"riage, n. [OE. mariage, F. mariage. See Marry,
v. t.]
1. The act of marrying, or the state of being married; legal
union of a man and a woman for life, as husband and wife;
wedlock; matrimony.
Marriage is honorable in all. --Heb. xiii.
4.
2. The marriage vow or contract. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
3. A feast made on the occasion of a marriage.
The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king
which made a marriage for his son. --Matt. xxii.
2.
4. Any intimate or close union.
Marriage brokage.
(a) The business of bringing about marriages.
(b) The payment made or demanded for the procurement of a
marriage.
Marriage favors, knots of white ribbons, or bunches of
white flowers, worn at weddings.
Marriage settlement (Law), a settlement of property in
view, and in consideration, of marriage.
Syn: Matrimony; wedlock; wedding; nuptials.
Usage: Marriage, Matrimony, Wedlock. Marriage is
properly the act which unites the two parties, and
matrimony the state into which they enter. Marriage
is, however, often used for the state as well as the
act. Wedlock is the old Anglo-Saxon term for
matrimony. Resettlement
Resettlement Re*set"tle*ment (-ment), n.
Act of settling again, or state of being settled again; as,
the resettlement of lees.
The resettlement of my discomposed soul. --Norris.
Unsettlement
Unsettlement Un*set"tle*ment, n.
The act of unsettling, or state of being unsettled;
disturbance. --J. H. Newman.
Meaning of Settlement from wikipedia
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Settlement may
refer to:
Human settlement, a
community where people live
Settlement (structural), the
distortion or
disruption of
parts of a building...
- An
Urban settlement is a
concentrated settlement that of an
urban area. It is an area with high
density of human-created structures. Muni****l
urban settlement...
- The
Permanent Settlement, also
known as the
Permanent Settlement of Bengal, was an
agreement between the East
India Company and
Bengali landlords to fix...
- The
Settlement may
refer to: The
Settlement (1984 film) The
Settlement (1999 film) The
Settlement,
British Virgin Islands, the main town on
Anegada Edinburgh...
-
statistics and archaeology, a
settlement,
locality or po****ted
place is a
community in
which people live. The
complexity of a
settlement can
range from a small...
- The
definition of a
rural settlement depends on the country. In some countries, a
rural settlement is any
settlement in the
areas defined as
rural by a...
- In law, a
settlement is a
resolution between disputing parties about a
legal case,
reached either before or
after court action begins. The term also has...
- A
settlement hierarchy is a way of
arranging settlements into a
hierarchy based upon
their po****tion or some
other criteria. The term is used by landscape...
- The
Straits Settlements were a
group of
British territories located in
maritime Southeast Asia, then
known as the Far East.
Headquartered in Singapore...
- The
settlement movement was a
reformist social movement that
began in the 1880s and
peaked around the 1920s in
England and the
United States. Its goal...
