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Psephism :: Psephism (n.) A proposition adopted by a majority of votes; especially, one adopted by vote of the Athenian people; a statute..

Commonalty :: Commonalty (n.) The majority or bulk of mankind.

Marjoram :: Marjoram (n.) A genus of mintlike plants (Origanum) comprising about twenty-five species. The sweet marjoram (O. Majorana) is pecularly aromatic and fragrant, and much used in cookery. The wild marjoram of Europe and America is O. vulgare, far less fragrant than the other..

Majorship :: Majorship (n.) The office of major.

Minority :: Minority (a. & n.) The smaller number; -- opposed to majority; as, the minority must be ruled by the majority..

Majority :: Majority (n.) The quality or condition of being major or greater; superiority.

Majorat :: Majorat (a.) Property, landed or funded, so attached to a title of honor as to descend with it..

Sweepings :: Sweeping (a.) Cleaning off surfaces, or cleaning away dust, dirt, or litter, as a broom does; moving with swiftness and force; carrying everything before it; including in its scope many persons or things; as, a sweeping flood; a sweeping majority; a sweeping accusation..

Trilemma :: Trilemma (n.) A syllogism with three conditional propositions, the major premises of which are disjunctively affirmed in the minor. See Dilemma..

Bulk :: Bulk (n.) The main mass or body; the largest or principal portion; the majority; as, the bulk of a debt..

Drum Major :: Drum major () A noisy gathering. [R.] See under Drum, n., 4..

Abduction :: Abduction (n.) A syllogism or form of argument in which the major is evident, but the minor is only probable..

Enthymeme :: Enthymeme (n.) An argument consisting of only two propositions, an antecedent and consequent deduced from it; a syllogism with one premise omitted; as, We are dependent; therefore we should be humble. Here the major proposition is suppressed. The complete syllogism would be, Dependent creatures should be humble; we are dependent creatures; therefore we should be humble..

Drum Major :: Drum major () The marching leader of a military band.

Drum Major :: Drum major () .

Majority :: Majority (n.) The greater number; more than half; as, a majority of mankind; a majority of the votes cast..

Major :: Major (a.) Of greater dignity; more important.

Waybread :: Waybread (n.) The common dooryard plantain (Plantago major).

Dur :: Dur (a.) Major; in the major mode; as, C dur, that is, C major..

Ditone :: Ditone (n.) The Greek major third, which comprehend two major tones (the modern major third contains one major and one minor whole tone)..

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