Search the Dictionary

government and instruction of a college or university, or of one of its departments; the president, professors, and tutors in a college. Dean of faculty. See under Dean. -- Faculty of advocates. (Scot.) See under Advocate.

mation and adoption; a member of the political party which favored the administration of president Washington.

of; to officiate in, as an incumbent; to occupy; to hold; as, a king fills a throne; the president fills the office of chief magistrate; the speaker of the House fills the chair.

es of a freeman of the city; formerly often, and now occasionally, conferred on one not a resident, as a mark of honorary distinction for public services.

The act, right, or power of giving or bestowing; as, the office is in the gift of the President.

An inhabitant or resident; -- a name applied to and denoting farmers of French descent or origin in Canada, especially in the Province of Quebec; -- usually in plural. The habitants or cultivators of the soil. Parkman.

e application or pertinacity; hence, to tease; to irritate; to worry. Their ministers and residents here have perpetually importuned the court with unreasonable demands. Swift.

s; to invest with power or authority in a formal manner; to install; as, to inaugurate a president; to inaugurate a king. Milton.

The day on which the President of the United States is inaugurated, the 4th of March in every year next after a year divisible by four.

al sense; as, a man under thirty-five years of age is incapable of holding the office of president of the United States; a person convicted on impeachment is thereby made incapable of holding an office of profit or honor under the government.

One who has a legal settlement in a town, city, or parish; a permanent resident.

Admitted as a dweller; resident; internal. [R.] "Inmate guests." Milton.

induct; as, to install an ordained minister as pastor of a church; to install a college president. Unworthily Thou wast installed in that high degree. Shak.

cial meeting for consultation; a conference; as, the secretary had an interview with the President.

The absence of pomp or display which Jefferson aimed at in his administration as President (1801-1809), eschewing display or ceremony tending to distinguish the President from the people, as in going to the capital on horseback and with no escort, the abolition of court etiquette and the weekly levee, refusal to recogn…

d, a combination of tenant farmers and other, organized, with Charles Stewart Parnell as president, in 1879 with a view to the reduction of farm rents and a reconstruction of the land laws. -- Land"*lea`guer (#), n. -- Land"*lea`guism (#), n.

The president of the diet of the Helvetic republic.

A chief magistrate in rural districts. He was replaced in 1827 by "resident magistrates."

A minister or ambassador resident at a court or seat of government. [Written also lieger, leiger.] [Obs.] Sir Edward Carne, the queen's leger at Rome. Fuller.

r somewhat miscellaneous gathering of guests, whether in the daytime or evening; as, the president's levee.