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Bearing; carrying. [Obs.] Bailey.

Waging war; carrying on war. "Belligerent powers." E. Everett.

In a belligerent manner; hostilely.

Carryng on war in conjunction with another power.

Digesting. [Obs.] Bailey.

rity, to exercise the powers of another; a lieutenant; a vicar. Bacon. The symbol and vicegerent of the Deity. C. A. Young.

The quality of being belligerent; act or state of making war; warfare.

An agreement between belligerents for the exchange of prisoners. Wilhelm.

of war, that which, according to international law, cannot be supplied to a hostile belligerent except at the risk of seizure and condemnation by the aggrieved belligerent. Wharton.

or his behalf; a substitute in office; a lieutenant; a representative; a delegate; a vicegerent; as, the deputy of a prince, of a sheriff, of a township, etc. There was then [in the days of Jehoshaphat] no king in Edom; a deputy was king. 1 Kings xxii. 47. God's substitute, His deputy anointed in His sight. Shak.…

. . that most of therm never met again. Sir P. Sidney. States disserved, discordant, belligerent. D. Webster.

Not contraband; not subject to forfeiture; as, innocent goods carried to a belligerent nation. Innocent party (Law),a party who has not notice of a fact tainting a litigated transaction with illegality.

titute for, another in the performance of any duty. The lawful magistrate, who is the vicegerent or lieutenant of God. Abp. Bramhall.

in time of war, which holds itself ready to resist by force any aggression of either belligerent.

merchant vessels in time of war, to certify their nationality and protect them from belligerents; a sea letter.

yden. Right of search (Mar. Law), the right of the lawfully commissioned cruisers of belligerent nations to examine and search private merchant vessels on the high seas, for the enemy's property or for articles contraband of war. -- Search warrant (Law), a warrant legally issued, authorizing an examination or search o…

The vicegerent of a prior; a claustral officer who assists the prior.

r the like; to cause to agree; to harmonize; to associate; to attach. Under his great vicegerent reign abide, United as one individual soul. Milton. The king proposed nothing more than to unite his kingdom in one form of worship. Clarendon.

The basis or principle of a treaty which leaves belligerents mutually in possession of what they have acquired by their arms during the war. Brande & C.

The office of a vicegerent. South.