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- English Word Patent Definition A letter patent, or letters patent; an official document, issued by a sovereign power, conferring a right or privilege on some person or party.
- English Word Patent Definition A writing securing to an invention.
- English Word Patent Definition A document making a grant and conveyance of public lands.
- English Word Patent Definition The right or privilege conferred by such a document; hence, figuratively, a right, privilege, or license of the nature of a patent.
- English Word Patent Definition To grant by patent; to make the subject of a patent; to secure or protect by patent; as, to patent an invention; to patent public lands.
- English Word Patent-hammered Definition Having a surface dressed by cutting with a hammer the head of which consists of broad thin chisels clamped together.
- English Word Patentable Definition Suitable to be patented; capable of being patented.
- English Word Patented Definition of Patent
- English Word Patentee Definition One to whom a grant is made, or a privilege secured, by patent.
- English Word Patenting Definition of Patent
- English Word Patently Definition Openly; evidently.
- English Word Patera Definition A saucerlike vessel of earthenware or metal, used by the Greeks and Romans in libations and sacrificies.
- English Word Patera Definition A circular ornament, resembling a dish, often worked in relief on friezes, and the like.
- English Word Paterae Definition of Patera
- English Word Paterero Definition See Pederero.
- English Word Pateresfamilias Definition of Paterfamilias
- English Word Paterfamilias Definition The head of a family; in a large sense, the proprietor of an estate; one who is his own master.
- English Word Paternal Definition Of or pertaining to a father; fatherly; showing the disposition of a father; guiding or instructing as a father; as, paternal care.
- English Word Paternal Definition Received or derived from a father; hereditary; as, a paternal estate.
- English Word Paternalism Definition The theory or practice of paternal government. See Paternal government, under Paternal.