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Reservation
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) A term of canon law, which signifies that the pope reserves to himself appointment to certain benefices.
(2):
(n.) A clause in an instrument by which some new thing is reserved out of the thing granted, and not in esse before.
(3):
(n.) The state of being reserved, or kept in store.
(4):
(n.) A tract of the public land reserved for some special use, as for schools, for the use of Indians, etc.
(5):
(n.) A proviso.
(6):
(n.) The portion of the sacramental elements reserved for purposes of devotion and for the communion of the absent and sick.
(7):
(n.) Something withheld, either not expressed or disclosed, or not given up or brought forward.
(8):
(n.) The act of reserving, or keeping back; concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Reservation'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/r/reservation.html. 1828.
