RESTITUTION
\ɹɪstɪtjˈuːʃən], \ɹɪstɪtjˈuːʃən], \ɹ_ɪ_s_t_ɪ_t_j_ˈuː_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of RESTITUTION
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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The act of restoring anything to its rightful owner, or of making good, or of giving an equivalent for any loss, damage, or injury; indemnification.
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That which is offered or given in return for what has been lost, injured, or destroved; compensation.
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The movement of rotetion which usually occurs in childbirth after the head has been delivered, and which causes the latter to point towards the side to which it was directed at the beginning of labor.
By Oddity Software
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The act of restoring anything to its rightful owner, or of making good, or of giving an equivalent for any loss, damage, or injury; indemnification.
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That which is offered or given in return for what has been lost, injured, or destroved; compensation.
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The movement of rotetion which usually occurs in childbirth after the head has been delivered, and which causes the latter to point towards the side to which it was directed at the beginning of labor.
By Noah Webster.
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The act of giving back to the rightful owner that which has been taken away or lost, or of making good any loss, injury, or damage.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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In obstetrics the return of the rotated head of the fetus to its natural relation with the shoulders after its emergence from the vulva.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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A restoring; repayment; restoration.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Act of restoring some right of which a person has been unjustly deprived; indemnification; compensation; state of restoration.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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The act of making good any loss, damage, or injury; the restoration of something lost or taken away; amends; reparation.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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A restoring or being restored; a return to a previous condition.
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See movement of r., under movement.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [Latin] The act of restoring: especially, the act of restoring any thing to its rightful owner, or of giving an equivalent for any loss, damage, or injury;— that which is offered in return for what has been lost, injured, or destroyed; indemnification; reparation; compensation; amends.
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