charterial

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adjective

Of or relating to a charter.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

adjectivecharterial (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOf or relating to a charter.

    A train of attendants, a white wand, and a few fiddles, are only the fringe, lace, and trappings of charterial office.

    1839, William Hutton, History of Birmingham, Birmingham: Wrightson and Webb, […], page 197
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    Diligently careful as the framers of the charterial instrument were that every veterinary interest—nay, even that every veterinary individual of any weight or consideration—should be consulted, lest through any inadvertency the provisions of the Charter might not turn out such as proved the best for the general weal of the profession;—[…]

    1846 January 1, Messrs. Youatt and Percivall, editors, The Veterinarian; or, Monthly Journal of Veterinary Science, volume XIX / V, new series, London: […] Compton and Ritchie, […] Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, […], page 59

    Notwithstanding the suggestion, however, of two such authorities, no one, with the exception perhaps of Mr. Norton in his commentaries on the history, constitution, and charterial franchises of the city of London, appears to have been bold enough to grapple with the subject until Mr. Pulling applied himself to its elucidation.

    1854, James A. Foot, D. D. Keane, W. C. Glen, editors, The Justice of the Peace, volume XVIII, London: […] Robert Shaw, […], page 538, column 3

    […] that whilst the legislature may deprive the corporation of its charterial rights, and forbid its exercising any of the governmental powers, it must not be presumed that it intended also to absolve it from its liabilities to creditors, or to contractors whose rights to compensation have become vested; […]

    1897, Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at October Term, 1896, New York, N.Y.; Albany, N.Y.: Banks & Brothers, page 655

    […] the validity of the ordinance was sustained against numerous charterial and constitutional objections sought to be invoked against it in both state and federal courts.

    1907, The Revised Code of St. Louis (General Ordinances.) […], St. Louis, Mo.: Sam’l F. Myerson Printing Co., page 681

    Likewise, entries in chronicles and annals are not placed in this study unless they indicate that charterial material was probably the source for that information.

    1977, Steven Fanning, A Bishop and his World before the Gregorian Reform: Hubert of Angers, 1006–1047 (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society; volume 78, part 1), Philadelphia, Pa.: American Philosophical Society, […], published 1988, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 93

Origin

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