Definition of option

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Option (n.) A right formerly belonging to an archbishop to select any one dignity or benefice in the gift of a suffragan bishop consecrated or confirmed by him, for bestowal by himself when next vacant; -- annulled by Parliament in 1845..

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Option :: Option (n.) The power of choosing; the right of choice or election; an alternative.
Arrogation :: Arrogation (n.) Adoption of a person of full age.
Departure :: Departure (n.) The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another..
Proposer :: Proposer (n.) One who proposes or offers anything for consideration or adoption.
Option :: Option (n.) A right formerly belonging to an archbishop to select any one dignity or benefice in the gift of a suffragan bishop consecrated or confirmed by him, for bestowal by himself when next vacant; -- annulled by Parliament in 1845..
Pass :: Pass (v. i.) To decline to take an optional action when it is one's turn, as to decline to bid, or to bet, or to play a card; in euchre, to decline to make the trump..
Preoption :: Preoption (n.) Right of first choice.
Recommendation :: Recommendation (n.) That which recommends, or commends to favor; anything procuring, or tending to procure, a favorable reception, or to secure acceptance and adoption; as, he brought excellent recommendations..
Federalist :: Federalist (n.) An advocate of confederation; specifically (Amer. Hist.), a friend of the Constitution of the United States at its formation and adoption; a member of the political party which favored the administration of president Washington..
Option :: Option (n.) A wishing; a wish.
Optionally :: Optionally (adv.) In an optional manner.
Adoption :: Adoption (n.) The act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one's own child..
Option :: Option (n.) A stipulated privilege, given to a party in a time contract, of demanding its fulfillment on any day within a specified limit..
Refusal :: Refusal (n.) The right of taking in preference to others; the choice of taking or refusing; option; as, to give one the refusal of a farm; to have the refusal of an employment..
Affiliation :: Affiliation (n.) Adoption; association or reception as a member in or of the same family or society.
Passage :: Passage (v. i.) In parliamentary proceedings: (a) The course of a proposition (bill, resolution, etc.) through the several stages of consideration and action; as, during its passage through Congress the bill was amended in both Houses. (b) The advancement of a bill or other proposition from one stage to another by an affirmative vote; esp., the final affirmative action of the body upon a proposition; hence, adoption; enactment; as, the passage of the bill to its third reading was delayed..
Espousal :: Espousal (n.) The uniting or allying one's self with anything; maintenance; adoption; as, the espousal of a quarrel..
Adoptionist :: Adoptionist (n.) One of a sect which maintained that Christ was the Son of God not by nature but by adoption.
Adoption :: Adoption (n.) The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions..
Adrogation :: Adrogation (n.) A kind of adoption in ancient Rome. See Arrogation.
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