Dictionary: NOM-IN-EE' – NON-COM-PLY'ING

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NOM-IN-EE', n.

  1. In law, the person who is named to receive a copy-hold estate on surrender of it to the lord; the cestuy que use, sometimes called the surrenderee. Blackstone.
  2. A person named or designated by another. Paley.
  3. A person on whose life depends an annuity.

NO-MOG'RA-PHY, n. [Gr. νομος, law, and γραφω, to write.]

A treatise on laws.

NO-MO-THET'IC, or NO-MO-THET'IC-AL, a. [Gr. νομοθετης.]

Legislative; enacting laws. Bp. Barlow.

NON, adv. [L.]

Not. This word is used in the English language as a prefix only, for giving a negative sense to words; as in non-residence, non-performance, non-existence, non-payment, non-concurrence, non-admission, non-appearance, non-attendance, non-conformity, non-compliance, non-communion, and the like.

NON-A-BIL'I-TY, n.

A want of ability; in law, an exception taken against a plaintif in a cause, when he is unable legally to commence a suit.

NON-AC-CED'ING, a.

Not acceding.

NON-AC-QUAINT'ANCE, n.

Want of acquaintance. Barrow.

NON'AGE, n. [non, not, and age.]

Minority; the time of life before a person, according to the laws of his country, becomes of age to manage his own concerns. Legal maturity of age is different in different countries. In this country, as in Great Britain, a man's nonage continues till he has completed twenty-one years. Nonage is sometimes the period under 14 years of age, as in case of marriage. Bailey. Encyc.

NO-NA-GES'I-MAL, a. [L. nonagesimus, ninetieth.]

Noting the 90th degree of the ecliptic; being in the highest point of the ecliptic.

NON'A-GON, n. [L. nonus, nine, and Gr. γωνια, an angle.]

A figure having nine sides and nine angles. Bailey.

NON-AP-PEAR'ANCE, n.

Default of appearance, as in court, to prosecute or defend.

NON-AP-POINT'MENT, n.

Neglect of appointment. Franklin.

NON-AT-TEND'ANCE, n.

A failure to attend; omission of attendance.

NON-AT-TEN'TION, n.

Inattention. Swift.

NON-BI-TU'MIN-OUS, a.

Containing no bitumen. Journ. of Science.

NONCE, n.

Purpose; intent; design. [Plot in use.] Spenser. B. Jonson.

NON-CHA-LANCE, n. [Fr.]

Indifference; carelessness; coolness.

NON-CHA-LANT', a. [Fr.]

Indifferent; careless; cool.

NON'-CLAIM, n.

A failure to make claim within the time limited by law; omission of claim. Bailey.

NON-CO-HE'SION, n.

Want of cohesion. Lindley.

NON-CO-IN'CI-DENT, a.

Not coincident.

NON-COM-MIT'TAL, n.

A state of not being committed or pledged; forbearance of committing one's self. American politics.

NON-COM-MUN'ION, n.

Neglect or failure of communion. B. Trumbull.

NON-COM-PLI'ANCE, n.

Neglect or failure of compliance.

NON-COM-PLY'ING, a.

Neglecting or refusing to comply. Hamilton.