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The act or process of characterizing...
deliberate
deliberate -at·ed -at·ing vi : to think about and weigh or discuss issues and decisions carefully [the jury retired to ] vt : to think about or evaluate [di-li-bə-rət] adj 1 : characterized by or resulting from careful consideration ;esp : characterized by or resulting from evaluation done in a cool state of blood and with a fixed purpose [ murder] compare premeditated 2 : characterized by an understanding of the nature of a thing or act and its consequences [ falsehoods] de·lib·er·ate·ly adv de·lib·er·ate·ness n ...
bona fide
bona fide [Latin, in good faith] 1 a : characterized by good faith and lack of fraud or deceit [a bona fide offer] b : valid under or in compliance with the law [retirement incentives made part of a bona fide employee benefit plan] 2 : made with or characterized by sincerity [a bona fide belief] 3 : being real or genuine [bona fide residents] ...
good
good bet·ter best 1 : commercially sound or reliable [a risk] 2 a : valid or effectual under the law b : free of defects 3 a : characterized by honesty and fairness b : conforming to a standard of virtue [shall hold their offices during behavior "U.S. Constitution art. III"] ;also : characterized by or relating to good behavior n 1 : advancement of prosperity and well-being [for the of the community] 2 : an item of tangible movable personal property having value but usually excluding money, securities, and negotiable instruments usually used in pl. : as a pl : all things under section 2-105 of the Uniform Commercial Code that are movable at the time of identification to the contract for sale other than the money that is to be paid, investment securities, and choses in action b pl : all things under section 9-104 of the Uniform Commercial Code that are movable at the time that a security interest in them attaches or that are fixtures but excluding money, documents,...
vague
vague : characterized by such a lack of precision that a person of ordinary intelligence would have to guess if particular conduct is being proscribed : characterized by a failure to describe forbidden conduct in terms sufficient to provide fair warning [an unconstitutionally law] see also void-for-vagueness doctrine compare overbroad vague·ly adv vague·ness n ...
hyperthyroidism
An abnormality of the thyroid gland characterized by the pathologically excessive production of thyroid hormones also the resulting condition characterized by increased metabolism weight loss rapid heart rate high blood pressure an enlarged thyroid gland and sometimes exophthalmos It leads to and may be confirmed by high plasma levels of triiodothyronine or thyroxin...
Neolithic
Of or pertaining to or designating an era characterized by late remains in stone the late stone age Estimated as beginning around 9000 b c in the Middle East this period is characterized by the beginnings of farming the domestication of animals and the manufacture of textiles and pottery...
Bona fide
Bona fide, is characterized by good faith and lack of fraud or deceit; valid under or in compliance with the law; made with or characterized by sincerity; being real or genuine, Webster's Dictionary of Law, Indian Edn. (2005), p. 54.Bona fide, (in good faith), implying the absence of all fraud or unfair dealing or acting, whether it consists in simulation or dissimulation.As to 'bona fide traveller,' see TRAVELLER....
Chattels or catals
Chattels or catals [fr. Catalla, Lat.; chatel, Fr.; chaptel, Old Fr.]. The word 'catalla' among the Normans primarily signified only beasts of husbandry or, as they are still called, cattle, but in a secondary sense the term was extended to all movables and not only to these but to whatsoever was not a fief or feud or, at a later date, in the nature of freehold or parcel of it. The distinction in the class of chattels survives in the legal meaning of the terms, 'personal chattels,' denoting movable property and 'chattels real,' which concern the realty, such as terms of years of lands or tenements, wardships, the interest of tenant by statute staple, by statute merchant, by elegit, and such like, Co. Litt., 118 b.Chattels personal or in a more narrow and more modern sense, 'chattels' (cf. 'goods and chattels' in the writ of fieri facias) (q.v.), means movable property or effects which belong personally to the owner and for which if they are injuriously withheld from him he has, in gene...
abusive
abusive 1 : characterized by wrong or improper use or action [ tax shelters] 2 : inflicting verbal or physical abuse [ parents] abu·sive·ly adv ...
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