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SELF |
Own person |
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DEPORTING |
Returning a person to his own country |
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SELF-DEVOTED |
Devoted in person, or by one's own will. |
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ADROGATE |
To adopt (a person who is his own master). |
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AUTOGRAPHY |
The science of autographs; a person's own handwriting;
an autograph. |
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SELF-DEFENSE |
The act of defending one's own person, property, or
reputation. |
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SELF-DEFENSIVE |
Defending, or tending to defend, one's own person,
property, or reputation. |
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ECBOLE |
A digression in which a person is introduced speaking his
own words. |
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AUTOGRAPH |
That which is written with one's own hand; an original
manuscript; a person's own signature or handwriting. |
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EXPATRIATE |
To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own
country; to make an exile of. |
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POSSESS |
To occupy in person; to hold or actually have in one's
own keeping; to have and to hold. |
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HYPOCHONDRIASIS |
A mental disorder in which melancholy and gloomy
views torment the affected person, particularly concerning his own
health. |
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CITATION |
The act of citing a passage from a book, or from another
person, in his own words; also, the passage or words quoted; quotation. |
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IMPOSTOR |
One who imposes upon others; a person who assumes a
character or title not his own, for the purpose of deception; a
pretender. |
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JONGLER |
In the Middle Ages, a court attendant or other person who,
for hire, recited or sang verses, usually of his own composition. See
Troubadour. |
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INTERVENTION |
The act by which a third person, to protect his own
interest, interposes and becomes a party to a suit pending between
other parties. |
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CATECHISE |
To question or interrogate; to examine or try by
questions; -- sometimes with a view to reproof, by eliciting from a
person answers which condemn his own conduct. |
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SIGNATURE |
Especially, the name of any person, written with his
own hand, employed to signify that the writing which precedes accords
with his wishes or intentions; a sign manual; an autograph. |
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GUARDIAN |
One who has, or is entitled to, the custody of the
person or property of an infant, a minor without living parents, or a
person incapable of managing his own affairs. |
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POSTLIMINY |
The return to his own country, and his former
privileges, of a person who had gone to sojourn in a foreign country,
or had been banished, or taken by an enemy. |
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OF |
Denoting that by which a person or thing is actuated or
impelled; also, the source of a purpose or action; as, they went of
their own will; no body can move of itself; he did it of necessity. |
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SUICIDE |
The act of taking one's own life voluntary and
intentionally; self-murder; specifically (Law), the felonious killing
of one's self; the deliber... |
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PRIVATE |
...,
company, or interest; peculiar to one's self; unconnected with others;
personal; one's own; not public; not general; separate; as, a man's
... |
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SELFISHNESS |
The quality or state of being selfish; exclusive
regard to one's own interest or happiness; that supreme self-love or
self-preference which lea... |
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NURSE |
...nds, or
brings up; as: (a) A woman who has the care of young children;
especially, one who suckles an infant not her own. (b) A person,
espec... |