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reservation |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Reservation \Res`er*va"tion\ (r?z`?r-v?"sh?n), n. [Cf. F. r['e]servation, LL reservatio. See {Reserve}.] 1. The act of reserving, or keeping back concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve. --A. Smith. With reservation of an hundred knights. --Shak. Make some reservation of your wrongs. --Shak. 2. Something withheld, either not expressed or disclosed, or not given up or brought forward. --Dryden. 3. A tract of the public land reserved for some special use as for schools, for the use of Indians, etc [U.S.] 4. The state of being reserved, or kept in store. --Shak. 5. (Law) a A clause in an instrument by which some new thing is reserved out of the thing granted, and not in esse before b A proviso. --Kent. Note: This term is often used in the same sense with exception, the technical distinction being disregarded. 6. (Eccl.) a The portion of the sacramental elements reserved for purposes of devotion and for the communion of the absent and sick. b A term of canon law, which signifies that the pope reserves to himself appointment to certain benefices. {Mental reservation}, the withholding, or failing to disclose, something that affects a statement, promise, etc., and which if disclosed, would materially change its import. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: reservation n 1: a district that is reserved for particular purpose [syn: {reserve}] 2: a statement that limits or restricts some claim; "he recommended her without any reservations" [syn: {qualification}] 3: an unstated doubt that prevents you from accepting something wholeheartedly [syn: {mental reservation}, {arriere pensee}] 4: the act of reserving (a place or passage) or engaging the services of (a person or group): "wondered who had made the booking" [syn: {booking}] 5: the act of keeping back or setting aside for some future occasion
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