Definition of grant

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Grant (v. t.) The act of granting; a bestowing or conferring; concession; allowance; permission.

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Lend :: Lend (v. t.) To allow the custody and use of, on condition of the return of the same; to grant the temporary use of; as, to lend a book; -- opposed to borrow..
Exception :: Exception (n.) An objection, oral or written, taken, in the course of an action, as to bail or security; or as to the decision of a judge, in the course of a trail, or in his charge to a jury; or as to lapse of time, or scandal, impertinence, or insufficiency in a pleading; also, as in conveyancing, a clause by which the grantor excepts something before granted..
Impart :: Impart (n.) To bestow a share or portion of; to give, grant, or communicate; to allow another to partake in; as, to impart food to the poor; the sun imparts warmth..
Faculty :: Faculty (n.) A body of a men to whom any specific right or privilege is granted; formerly, the graduates in any of the four departments of a university or college (Philosophy, Law, Medicine, or Theology), to whom was granted the right of teaching (profitendi or docendi) in the department in which they had studied; at present, the members of a profession itself; as, the medical faculty; the legal faculty, ect..
Exhibitioner :: Exhibitioner (n.) One who has a pension or allowance granted for support.
Trust :: Trust (n.) An estate devised or granted in confidence that the devisee or grantee shall convey it, or dispose of the profits, at the will, or for the benefit, of another; an estate held for the use of another; a confidence respecting property reposed in one person, who is termed the trustee, for the benefit of another, who is called the cestui que trust..
Respite :: Respite (n.) The delay of appearance at court granted to a jury beyond the proper term.
Recede :: Recede (v. i.) To cede back; to grant or yield again to a former possessor; as, to recede conquered territory..
Feoff :: Feoff (v. t.) To invest with a fee or feud; to give or grant a corporeal hereditament to; to enfeoff.
Emigrator :: Emigrator (n.) One who emigrates; am emigrant.
Cherimoyer :: Cherimoyer (n.) A small downy-leaved tree (Anona Cherimolia), with fragrant flowers. It is a native of Peru..
Though :: Though (conj.) Granting, admitting, or supposing that; notwithstanding that; if..
Lend :: Lend (v. t.) To afford; to grant or furnish in general; as, to lend assistance; to lend one's name or influence..
Sufferer :: Sufferance (n.) A permission granted by the customs authorities for the shipment of goods.
Indulge :: Indulge (v. t.) To grant as by favor; to bestow in concession, or in compliance with a wish or request..
Reservation :: Reservation (n.) A clause in an instrument by which some new thing is reserved out of the thing granted, and not in esse before..
Petition :: Petition (n.) A formal written request addressed to an official person, or to an organized body, having power to grant it; specifically (Law), a supplication to government, in either of its branches, for the granting of a particular grace or right; -- in distinction from a memorial, which calls certain facts to mind; also, the written document..
Jubilee :: "Jubilee (n.) A church solemnity or ceremony celebrated at Rome, at stated intervals, originally of one hundred years, but latterly of twenty-five; a plenary and extraordinary indulgence grated by the sovereign pontiff to the universal church. One invariable condition of granting this indulgence is the confession of sins and receiving of the eucharist..
Grant :: Grant (v. i.) To assent; to consent.
Pension :: Pension (v. t.) To grant a pension to; to pay a regular stipend to; in consideration of service already performed; -- sometimes followed by off; as, to pension off a servant..
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