Continence - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: continenceContinently
In a continent manner chastely moderately temperately...
continent wide
involving the entire continent...
Pacta qu' turpem causam continent non sunt observanda
Pacta qu' turpem causam continent non sunt observanda. Dig. 2, 14, 27, s. 4, (Agreements founded on an immoral consideration are not to be observed.) See ILLEGAL CONTRACT....
Intercontinental
Between or among continents subsisting or carried on between continents as intercontinental relations or commerce...
Latin America
That part of the American continents that speak Spanish Portuguese or French the part of the American continents south of the United States...
plate tectonics
A geological theory which holds that the crust of the earth the lithosphere is divided into a small number of large separate plates which float and move slowly around on the more plastic asthenosphere breaking apart and moving away from each other at points where magma upwells from below and driven by such upwellings and other currents on the athenosphere sliding past each other colliding with each other and in some cases being submerged subducted one below the other This theory is now widely accepted and explains many geological phenomena such as the clustered locations of earthquakes mountain building volcanism and the similarities observed between the geology of continents such as South America and Africa which are now far apart but according to the theory were once joined together The motions of such tectonic plates are very slow typically only several centimeters per year but over tens and hundreds of millions of years cause very large changes in the relative positions of the cont...
Buffalo
A species of the genus Bos or Bubalus Bubalus bubalus originally from India but now found in most of the warmer countries of the eastern continent It is larger and less docile than the common ox and is fond of marshy places and rivers...
Continence
Self restraint self command...
Continent
Serving to restrain or limit restraining opposing...
Continental
Of or pertaining to a continent...
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