"reservation" Definition

Definitions for the word "reservation" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. n.
The act of reserving, or keeping back; concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
Something withheld, either not expressed or disclosed, or not given up or brought forward.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
A tract of the public land reserved for some special use, as for schools, for the use of Indians, etc.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
The state of being reserved, or kept in store.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
A clause in an instrument by which some new thing is reserved out of the thing granted, and not in esse before.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
A proviso.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
The portion of the sacramental elements reserved for purposes of devotion and for the communion of the absent and sick.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. n.
A term of canon law, which signifies that the pope reserves to himself appointment to certain benefices.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. n.
1 reserving or being reserved. 2 thing booked, e.g. A room in a hotel. 3 spoken or unspoken limitation or exception to an agreement etc. 4 (in full central reservation) strip of land between the carriageways of a road. 5 area of land reserved for occupation by american indians etc. [latin: related to *reserve]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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