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Of or pertaining to a nation; common to a whole people or race; public; general; as, a national government, language, dress, custom, calamity, etc.

The state of being national; national attachment; nationality.

One who advocates national unity and independence; one of a party favoring Irish independence.

The quality of being national, or strongly attached to one's own nation; patriotism.

The act of nationalizing, or the state of being nationalized.

To make national; to make a nation of; to endow with the character and habits of a nation, or the peculiar sentiments and attachment of citizens of a nation.

In a national manner or way; as a nation. "The jews ... being nationally espoused to God by covenant." South.

The quality or state of being national; nationality. Johnson.

See Legislature.

Antagonistic to one's country or nation, or to a national government.

The or process of denationalizing.

To divest or deprive of national character or rights. Bonaparte's decree denationalizes, as he calls it, all ships that have touched at a British port. Cobbett. An expatriated, denationalized race. G. Eliot.

Pertaining to a denomination, especially to a sect or society. "Denominational differences." Buckle.

A denominational or class spirit or policy; devotion to the interests of a sect or denomination.

One imbued with a denominational spirit. The Century.

In a denominational manner; by denomination or sect.

Pertaining to, involving, or caused by, imagination.

Idealism. J. Grote.

Occurring between or among, or common to, different denominations; as, interdenominational fellowship or belief.

Of or concerning the association called the International. International code (Naut.), a common system of signaling adopted by nearly all maritime nations, whereby communication may be had between vessels at sea. -- International copyright. See under Copyright. -- International law, the rules regulating the mutual in…