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Licitation (gcide) | Licitation \Lic`i*ta"tion\ (l[i^]s`[i^]*t[=a]"sh[u^]n), n. [L.
licitatio, fr. licitari, liceri, to bid, offer a price.]
The act of offering for sale to the highest bidder. [R.]
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LICITATION (bouvier) | LICITATION. A sale at auction; a sale to the highest bidder.
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felicitation (mass) | felicitation
- blahoželanie |
elicitation (encz) | elicitation,vyvolání n: Zdeněk Brož |
experimental methods for preference elicitation (encz) | experimental methods for preference elicitation,experimentální metody
pro odhalení preferencí [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
felicitation (encz) | felicitation,blahopřání n: Zdeněk Brož |
preferences elicitation (encz) | preferences elicitation,odhalení preferencí [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
solicitation (encz) | solicitation,akvizice n: Zdeněk Brožsolicitation,vyžádání n: Jaroslav Šedivý |
Elicitation (gcide) | Elicitation \E*lic`i*ta"tion\, n.
The act of eliciting. [Obs.] --Abp. Bramhall.
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Felicitation (gcide) | Felicitation \Fe*lic`i*ta"tion\, n. [Cf. F. f['e]licitation.]
The act of felicitating; a wishing of joy or happiness;
congratulation.
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Licitation (gcide) | Licitation \Lic`i*ta"tion\ (l[i^]s`[i^]*t[=a]"sh[u^]n), n. [L.
licitatio, fr. licitari, liceri, to bid, offer a price.]
The act of offering for sale to the highest bidder. [R.]
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Pollicitation (gcide) | Pollicitation \Pol*lic`i*ta"tion\, n. [L. pollicitatio, fr.
pollicitari to promise, v. intens. fr. polliceri to promise:
cf. F. pollicitation.]
1. A voluntary engagement, or a paper containing it; a
promise. --Bp. Burnet.
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2. (Roman Law) A promise without mutuality; a promise which
has not been accepted by the person to whom it is made.
--Bouvier.
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Solicitation (gcide) | Solicitation \So*lic`i*ta"tion\, n. [F. sollicitation, or L.
sollicitatio.]
1. The act of soliciting; earnest request; persistent asking;
importunity.
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2. Excitement; invitation; as, the solicitation of the
senses. --Locke.
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elicitation (wn) | elicitation
n 1: stimulation that calls up (draws forth) a particular class
of behaviors; "the elicitation of his testimony was not
easy" [syn: evocation, induction, elicitation] |
felicitation (wn) | felicitation
n 1: (usually plural) an expression of pleasure at the success
or good fortune of another; "I sent them my sincere
congratulations on their marriage" [syn: congratulation,
felicitation]
2: the act of acknowledging that someone has an occasion for
celebration [syn: congratulation, felicitation] |
solicitation (wn) | solicitation
n 1: an entreaty addressed to someone of superior status; "a
solicitation to the king for relief"
2: request for a sum of money; "an appeal to raise money for
starving children" [syn: solicitation, appeal,
collection, ingathering]
3: the act of enticing a person to do something wrong (as an
offer of sex in return for money) [syn: solicitation,
allurement] |
POLLICITATION (bouvier) | POLLICITATION, civil law. A pollicitation is a promise not yet accepted by
the person to whom it is made; it differs from a contract inasmuch as the
latter includes a concurrence of intention in two parties, one of whom
promises something to the other, who accepts on his part of such promise. L.
3, ff. Pollicit.; Grotius, lib. 2, c. 2; Poth. on Oblig. P. 1, c. 1, s. 1,
art. 1,Sec. 2.
2. An offer to guaranty, but not accepted, is not a contract on which
an action will lie. 1 Stark. C. 10; 1 M. & S. 557; 3 B. & C. 668, 690; 5 D.
& R. 512, 586; 7 Cranch, 69; 17 John. R. 134; 1 Mason's R. 323, 371; 16
John. R. 67; 3 Conn. R. 438; 1 Pick. R. 282, 3; 1 B. & A. 681.
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SOLICITATION OF CHASTIT (bouvier) | SOLICITATION OF CHASTITY. The asking a person to commit adultery or
fornication.
2. This of itself, is not an indictable offence. Salk. 382; 2 Chit. Pr.
478. The contrary doctrine, however, has been held in Connecticut. 7 Conn.
Rep. 267.
3. In England, the bare solicitation of chastity is punished in the
ecclesiastical courts. 2 Chit. Pr. 478. Vide Str. 1100; 10 Mod. 384; Sayer,
33; 1 Hawk. ch. 74; 2 Ld. Raym. 809.
4. The civil law punished arbitrarily the person who solicited the
chastity of another. Dig. 47, 11, 1. Vide To persuade; 3 Phillim. R. 508.
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