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Conventionary

Acting under contract settled by express agreement as conventionary tenants

Convulse

To contract violently and irregulary as the muscular parts of an animal body to shake with irregular spasms as in excessive laughter or in agony from grief or pain

Covenantee

The person in whose favor a covenant is made

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Espousal

The act of espousing or betrothing especially in the plural betrothal plighting of the troths a contract of marriage sometimes the marriage ceremony

Covenanter

One who makes a covenant

Covenantor

The party who makes a covenant

Crimple

To cause to shrink or draw together to contract to curl

Dilate

To expand to distend to enlarge or extend in all directions to swell opposed to contract as the air dilates the lungs air is dilated by increase of heat

Divorce

A legal dissolution of the marriage contract by a court or other body having competent authority This is properly a divorce and called technically divorce a vinculo matrimonii

Engage

To put under pledge to pledge to place under obligations to do or forbear doing something as by a pledge oath or promise to bind by contract or promise

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