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- proper-falseˈ adjective (Shakespeare)Handsome and deceitful• • •Main Entry: ↑proper
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False Decretals — • A name given to certain apocryphal papal letters contained in a collection of canon laws composed about the middle of the ninth century by an author who uses the pseudonym of Isidore Mercator, in the opening preface to the collection Catholic… … Catholic encyclopedia
False imprisonment — is a tort, and possibly a crime, wherein a person is intentionally confined without legal authority.ElementsThe elements of the tort are: * Intent to confine another person against their will. In Australia, this element will be fulfilled if the… … Wikipedia
False flag — operations are covert operations conducted by governments, corporations, or other organizations, which are designed to appear as though they are being carried out by other entities. The name is derived from the military concept of flying false… … Wikipedia
false imprisonment — n: the tort of intentionally restraining another by physical force or the threat of physical force without privilege or authority see also false arrest at arrest Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 … Law dictionary
proper — 1 meet, appropriate, fitting, apt, happy, felicitous, *fit, suitable Analogous words: congruous, congenial, compatible, *consonant: *correct, nice, right: #due, rightful, condign Antonyms: improper Contrasted words: wrong, *false … New Dictionary of Synonyms
False document — A false document is a literary technique employed to create verisimilitude in a work of fiction. By inventing and inserting documents that appear to be factual, an author tries to create a sense of authenticity beyond the normal and expected… … Wikipedia
False etymology — A false etymology is an assumed or postulated etymology that current consensus among scholars of historical linguistics holds to be incorrect. Many false etymologies may be described as folk etymologies , the distinction being that folk… … Wikipedia
Proper name — A proper name [is] a word that answers the purpose of showing what thing it is that we are talking about writes John Stuart Mill in A System of Logic (1. ii. 5.), but not of telling anything about it . The problem of defining proper names, and of … Wikipedia
False quarter — Quarter Quar ter (kw[aum]r t[ e]r), n. [F. quartier, L. quartarius a fourth part, fr. quartus the fourth. See {Quart}.] 1. One of four equal parts into which anything is divided, or is regarded as divided; a fourth part or portion; as, a quarter… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
false arrest — A species of false imprisonment, consisting of the detention of a person without his or her consent and without lawful authority. Reams v. City of Tucson, App., 145 Ariz. 340, 701 P.2d 598, 601. Such arrest consists in unlawful restraint of an… … Black's law dictionary
