Word Finder - deed

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An action or act; something that is done.

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A brave or noteworthy action; a feat or exploit.

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Action or fact, as opposed to rhetoric or deliberation.

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I have fulfilled my promise in word and in deed.

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A legal instrument that is executed under seal or before witnesses.

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I inherited the deed to the house.

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To transfer real property by deed.

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He deeded over the mineral rights to some fellas from Denver.

Her works are in very deed the echo of our times.

It is only in this sense that an evil deed can be atoned for by a good deed.

This was called livery in deed.

She has done this deed for so many others, but I can't bear to heap more sin on my blackened soul and kill unborn this result of my Joshua's love.

He could not understand the value or significance of any word or deed taken separately.

The nearest that I came to actual possession was when I bought the Hollowell place, and had begun to sort my seeds, and collected materials with which to make a wheelbarrow to carry it on or off with; but before the owner gave me a deed of it, his wife--every man has such a wife--changed her mind and wished to keep it, and he offered me ten dollars to release him.

Mithras was through his deed the creator of life.

By a true confession of faith, by every good deed, word and thought, by continually keeping pure his body and his soul, he impairs the power of Satan and strengthens the might of goodness, and establishes a claim for reward upon Ormazd; by a false confession, by every evil deed, word and thought and defilement, he increases the evil and renders service to Satan.

He had done one good deed.

I would not be one of those who will foolishly drive a nail into mere lath and plastering; such a deed would keep me awake nights.

He'd not just claimed her in deed but had the nerve to brand her like chattel as well!

Pierre signed the deed and after that the princess grew still kinder.

Thus a lessee is under an implied obligation to treat the premises demised in a tenant-like or " husband-like " manner, and again, where in a lease by deed the word " demise " is used, the lessor probably covenants impliedly for his own title and for the quiet enjoyment of the premises by the lessee.

In February 1784 Wesley's deed of declaration gave the conference a legal constitution.

Martha, whose stay with them was at first a simple good deed, then a delight and now so very much more.

As the deed was not destroyed, but is in existence now, it is to be presumed that the terms of it were, riot fulfilled; but the fact that such a contract should have been drawn up by Napier himself affords a singular illustration of the state of society and the kind of events in the midst of which logarithms had their birth.

He soon began to give proofs of the violence for which he afterwards became notorious; when in 1497 his brother Giovanni, duke of Gandia, was murdered, the deed was attributed, in all probability with reason, to Cesare.

In obedience to these they often travelled hundreds of miles in company with, or in the wake of, their intended victims before a safe opportunity presented itself for executing their design; and, when the deed was done, rites were performed in honour of that tutelary deity, and a goodly portion of the spoil was set apart for her.

It's the ultimate in good deed shopping!

She waved her hand at the bed, as if to indicate the location of his foul deed.

He was murdered at the bridge of Kelheim on the 15th of September 1231, and the emperor was generally suspected of complicity in the deed.

A specialty debt is created by deed or instrument under seal.

Here he was accused of fraud for having substituted one name for another in a deed of transfer of national lands.

This field has been identified, and pieces of crucible and fragments of glass have been dug up. There is another deed, dated 1300, which mentions one William " le verir " of Chiddingfold.

One of these Amorites, Abi-ramu or Abram by name, is the father of a witness to a deed dated in the reign of Khammurabi's grandfather.

He was conveyed from Chester to London, and forced to execute a deed by which he resigned his crown.

Shortly afterwards a movement was organized to free them from captivity, and then it became known that they were already dead; but, though it was the general conviction that they had been murdered, it was twenty years before the manner of this deed was discovered.

To counteract it they, in 1701, prevailed upon the chiefs to deed their territory, said to be Boo m.

The deed of submission first defines the terms of the reference, the name or names of the arbiters or arbitrators, and the "oversman" or umpire, whose decision in the event of the arbiters differing in opinion is to be final.

The submission may be missions; effected sometimes by parol, sometimes by written instrument, sometimes by deed or deed poll.

It was founded by King St Stephen, and the original deed from loot is preserved in the archives of the abbey.

It was usual to evidence the feoffment by writing in a charter or deed of feoffment; but writing was not essential until the Statute of Frauds; now, by the Real Property Act 1845, a conveyance of real property is void unless evidenced by deed, and thus feoffments have been rendered unnecessary and superfluous.

For all the sins I have committed, in word or thought or deed, I come for pardon to God and to the church and to you all.'

At the Scandinavian sacrificial feasts a horn consecrated to Bragi was used as a drinkingcup by the guests, who then vowed to do some great deed which would be worthy of being immortalized in verse.

An interesting and very rare example of a Roman law deed sealed with gem impressions in clay is in the British Museum, recording the sale of a slave boy in A.D.

Although the deed was not apparently premeditated, as the English and Burgundians declared, it ruined Charles's cause for the time.

Knowing all the secrets of Darnley's murder, Balfour revenged himself by raking up Morton's foreknowledge of the deed; and here he was helped by the influence exercised over the young king by his cousin Esme Stuart d'Aubigny (a son of Darnley's paternal uncle, John), who came to Scotland from France in September 1579.

Ali, however, had first to deal with the insurrection of the Kharijites, who condemned the arbitration which followed the battle of Siffin as a deed of infidelity, and demanded that Ali should break the compact (see above, A.4).

This atrocious deed of Lysimachus aroused great indignation.

He narrated that episode so persistently and with so important an air that everyone believed in the merit and usefulness of his deed, and he had obtained two decorations for Austerlitz.

In reply to his last question Pierre again explained who Makar Alexeevich was and how just before their arrival that drunken imbecile had seized the loaded pistol which they had not had time to recover from him, and begged the officer to let the deed go unpunished.

There is no step, no crime or petty fraud he commits, which in the mouths of those around him is not at once represented as a great deed.

At Marseilles they performed her murder in a curiously open manner, seeming to think the deed would be applauded in a Christian country.

Afterward he was summoned to answer for his deed.

So long as an evil deed has not ripened, the fool thinks it as sweet as honey.

Who has the right to the title deed of the earth?

We send the Transfer Deed and the other title deeds of the property to the buyer 's solicitors.

Early vase paintings show him doing the deed with a sword or spear - there was no riddle, no suicide.

At the same time, the only way Wilby can break the spell is to perform some virtuous deed.

You'll get the deed and the title to the house, as well as the keys!