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
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard 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
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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A restoring; repayment; restoration.
By James Champlin Fernald
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.