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A particular privilege conferred by grant from a sovereign or a government, and vested in individuals; an imunity or exemption from ordinary jurisdiction; a constitutional or statutory right or privilege, esp. the right to vote. Election by universal suffrage, as modified by the Constitution, is the one crowning franch…

Not under an arbitrary or despotic government; subject only to fixed laws regularly and fairly administered, and defended by them from encroachments upon natural or acquired rights; enjoying political liberty.

; habitual; persistent. He has been loud and frequent in declaring himself hearty for the government. Swift.

nverted, the sense being more distinctly forth from, out from -- from being virtually the governing preposition, and the word the adverb. See From off, under Off, adv., and From afar, under Afar, adv. Sudden partings such as press The life from out young hearts. Byron.

A political party in France, during the minority of Louis XIV., who opposed the government, and made war upon the court party.

stock of a national debt; public securities; evidences (stocks or bonds) of money lent to government, for which interest is paid at prescribed intervals; -- called also public funds.

row aisle across the house, below which sit those who do not vote steadly either with the government or with the opposition.

printed sheet published periodically; esp., the official journal published by the British government, and containing legal and state notices.

One of the chief military officers of a government or country; the commander of an army, of a body of men not less than a brigade. In European armies, the highest military rank next below field marshal.

Government by old men. [R.] Gladstone.

A kind of verbal noun, having only the four oblique cases of the singular number, and governing cases like a participle.

apestry produced in the so-called Gobelin works, which have been maintained by the French Government since 1667.

An act, vote, or decree of the government of the institution; a degree or privilege conferred by such vote or decree. Walton.

d juror. -- Grand larceny. (Law) See under Larceny. -- Grand lodge, the chief lodge, or governing body, among Freemasons and other secret orders. -- Grand master. (a) The head of one of the military orders of knighthood, as the Templars, Hospitallers, etc. (b) The head of the order of Freemasons or of Good Templars,…

er of property by deed or writing; especially, au appropriation or conveyance made by the government; as, a grant of land or of money; also, the deed or writing by which the transfer is made.

ich this is the established church), Greece, Moldavia, and Wallachia. The Greek Church is governed by patriarchs and is called also the Byzantine Church. -- Greek cross. See Illust. (10) Of Cross. -- Greek Empire. See Byzantine Empire. -- Greek fire, a combustible composition which burns under water, the constituent…

; recent; as, a green manhood; a green wound. As valid against such an old and beneficent government as against . . . the greenest usurpation. Burke.

eaty. The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of government. Constitution of the U. S.

Government. [Obs.]

To govern. [Obs.] Cockeram.