|
|
|
|
See my other projects: weather, dict, payphones, mailboxes, receipts, found photos, court documents, what is my ip?, and more at sorabji.com.
Union
U'NION, n. [L. unio, to unite, from unus, one.]
1. The act of joining two or more things into one, and thus forming a compound body or a mixture; or the junction or coalition of things thus united. Union differs from connection, as it implies the bodies to be in contact, without an intervening body; whereas things may be connected by the intervention of a third body, as by a cord or chain.
One kingdom, joy and union without end.
2. Concord; agreement and conjunction of mind, will, affections or interest. Happy is the family where perfect union subsists between all its members.
3. The junction or united existence of spirit and matter; as the union of soul and body.
4. Among painters, a symmetry and agreement between the several parts of a painting.
5. In architecture, harmony between the colors in the materials of a building.
6. In ecclesiastical affairs, the combining or consolidating of two or more churches into one. This cannot be done without the consent of the bishop, the patron, and the incumbent. Union is by accession, when the united benefice becomes an accessory of the principal; by confusion, where the two titles are suppressed, and a new one created, including both; and by equality, where the two titles subsist, but are equal and independent.
7. States united. Thus the United States of America are sometimes call the Union.
8. A pearl. [L. unio. Not in use.]
Union, or Act of union, the act by which Scotland was united to England, or by which the two kingdoms were incorporated into one, in 1707.
Legislative union, the union of Great Britain and Ireland, in 1800.
Union by the first intention, in surgery, the process by which the opposite surfaces of recent wounds grow together and unite without suppuration, when they are kept in contact with each other; the result of a wonderful self-healing power in living bodies.
union appears in definitions for these words:
Absorption Accord Aceetate Acetous Acidifiable Adhere Adhesion Admiral Admixtion Adultery Adunation Advantage Aggregation Agreement Alliance Alveole Annexation Army Articulation Associate Association Attract Attraction Band Benzoate Bond Break Cabal Call Carbonate Catagmatic Catenation Cement Chord Chorus Citrate Clanship Closeness Coadunition Coagmentation Coalescence Coalition Coherence Collectiveness Combination Combine Combustible Combustibleness Communion Compactly Compactness Compacture Compagination Composition Compound Compounded Compression Con Concentrate Concentrated Concentrating Concert Concord Concorporation Concreated Concrement Concrescence Concrete Concurrence Confer Conglutination Conjointly Conjugation Conjunction Conjunctively Conjunctly Conjuncture Connaturality Connaturalness Connection Connectively Consent Consist Consistency Consociate Consociation Consort Consubstantiation Consummation Contact Contexture Contiguousness Continuity Convention Couplement Cut Destroy Digraph Diph-thong Disconnected Disconnection Discontinuance Discord Disengage Disjunctive Disorganize Disparage Disparagement Disparaging Dissension Dissonance Disunion Duumvirate Empire Existence Extinguish Extinguishment Faction Family Firmness Foreign Frame Frond Guaranty Hand Hardness Harmony Hermaphrodism Hold Hydracid Hydrate Incorporation Indissolubility Indissolvable Inosculation Inseparableness Interlinked Intimately Joint Jointly Junction Juncture Kinate Knit Knot League Loosely Love Love-suit Magnanimous Marriage Marriageable Match Matchmaker Matrimony Mechanic Metalepsis Molecule Nearness Nitrate Obstacle Odd One Oxygen Perfect Phalanx Pisolite Plexus Pre-existence Prussiate Radical Reconcile Reunion Reunite Rope Saccholate Saturation Sociableness Social Society Solution Splise Symmetry Symphysis Synarthrosis Syntax System Territory Tiller Together Triad Trinity Triumvirate Tune U Unaccountable Understanding Union Unloose Vegeto-animal W Weaving Weld Welded
Absorption Accord Aceetate Acetous Acidifiable Adhere Adhesion Admiral Admixtion Adultery Adunation Advantage Aggregation Agreement Alliance Alveole Annexation Army Articulation Associate Association Attract Attraction Band Benzoate Bond Break Cabal Call Carbonate Catagmatic Catenation Cement Chord Chorus Citrate Clanship Closeness Coadunition Coagmentation Coalescence Coalition Coherence Collectiveness Combination Combine Combustible Combustibleness Communion Compactly Compactness Compacture Compagination Composition Compound Compounded Compression Con Concentrate Concentrated Concentrating Concert Concord Concorporation Concreated Concrement Concrescence Concrete Concurrence Confer Conglutination Conjointly Conjugation Conjunction Conjunctively Conjunctly Conjuncture Connaturality Connaturalness Connection Connectively Consent Consist Consistency Consociate Consociation Consort Consubstantiation Consummation Contact Contexture Contiguousness Continuity Convention Couplement Cut Destroy Digraph Diph-thong Disconnected Disconnection Discontinuance Discord Disengage Disjunctive Disorganize Disparage Disparagement Disparaging Dissension Dissonance Disunion Duumvirate Empire Existence Extinguish Extinguishment Faction Family Firmness Foreign Frame Frond Guaranty Hand Hardness Harmony Hermaphrodism Hold Hydracid Hydrate Incorporation Indissolubility Indissolvable Inosculation Inseparableness Interlinked Intimately Joint Jointly Junction Juncture Kinate Knit Knot League Loosely Love Love-suit Magnanimous Marriage Marriageable Match Matchmaker Matrimony Mechanic Metalepsis Molecule Nearness Nitrate Obstacle Odd One Oxygen Perfect Phalanx Pisolite Plexus Pre-existence Prussiate Radical Reconcile Reunion Reunite Rope Saccholate Saturation Sociableness Social Society Solution Splise Symmetry Symphysis Synarthrosis Syntax System Territory Tiller Together Triad Trinity Triumvirate Tune U Unaccountable Understanding Union Unloose Vegeto-animal W Weaving Weld Welded
|
