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Home Dictionary Name: moteFolc-mote or folk-mote
Folc-mote or folk-mote [fr. folk, Sax., people, and mote, meeting], a general assembly of the people to consider of an order matters concerning the commonwealth; also any kind of popular or public meeting, Somner; Spelm.; Brady's Glos. 48; Termes de la ley....
Moted
Filled with motes or fine floating dust as the air...
Kirk-note or Kirk-mote
Kirk-note or Kirk-mote, a meeting of parishioners on Church affairs....
Mote,
Mote, a meeting, an assembly. Used in composition as burgmote, folkmote, etc. See GEMOT....
Mote-bell
Mote-bell, the bell which was used by the Saxons to summon people to the Court....
remote
remote re·mot·er -est 1 a : far removed in space, time, or relation [ancestors of a more degree] b : exceeding the time allowed under the rule against perpetuities for the vesting of interests [the residuary clause…violates the rule against vesting "Estate of Grove, 70 Cal. App. 3d 355 (1977)"] ;also : being in violation of the rule against perpetuities [a contingent estate] 2 : acting, acted on, or controlled indirectly or from a distance 3 a : not proximate or acting directly b : not arising from the effect of that which is proximate 4 : small in degree [a possibility of paternity] re·mote·ly adv re·mote·ness n ...
cause
cause 1 : something that brings about an effect or result [the negligent act which was the of the plaintiff's injury] NOTE: The cause of an injury must be proven in both tort and criminal cases. actual cause : cause in fact in this entry but-for cause : cause in fact in this entry cause in fact : a cause without which the result would not have occurred called also actual cause but-for cause concurrent cause : a cause that joins simultaneously with another cause to produce a result called also concurring cause compare intervening cause and superseding cause in this entry di·rect cause : proximate cause in this entry ef·fi·cient in·ter·ven·ing cause : superseding cause in this entry intervening cause 1 : an independent cause that follows another cause in time in producing the result but does not interrupt the chain of causation if foreseeable called also supervening cause compare concurrent cause and superseding cause in this entry 2 : super...
Floating
Buoyed upon or in a fluid a the floating timbers of a wreck floating motes in the air...
Moste
imp of Mote...
Mote
See 1st Mot...
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