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pursuant

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Word definitions for pursuant in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pursuant \Pur*su"ant\, a. [From Pursue : cf. OE. poursuiant. Cf. Pursuivant .] Acting in consequence or in prosecution (of anything); hence, agreeable; conformable; following; according; -- with to or of. The conclusion which I draw from these premises, ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. In conformance to, or in agreement with. adv. accordingly; consequently.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. (followed by `to') in conformance to or agreement with; "pursuant to our agreement"; "pursuant to the dictates of one's conscience" [syn: pursuant(p) ]

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ There are no other matters relating to him which need to be disclosed pursuant to Rule 16.4 of the Listing Rules.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French poursuiant , porsivant , present participle of porsuir , porsivre "chase, pursue" (see pursue ). Meaning "carrying out; following, according" is from 1690s.

Usage examples of pursuant.

The giving of a bond for exportation of distilled liquor is not the commencement of exportation so as to exempt from an excise tax spirits which were not exported pursuant to such bond.

After crossing the ford with the Sixth Infantry, pursuant to the orders given by Lieutenant Miley in the name of General Shafter, General Hawkins attempted to flank the enemy by a movement to the left, the Sixth Infantry leading and the Sixteenth intending to pass beyond it in its rear and join to its left.

After the reapportionment made pursuant to the 1930 census, deadlocks between the Governor and legislature in several States, produced a series of cases in which the right of the Governor to veto a reapportionment bill was questioned.

You are rpt are hereby warned that failure to do so will be cause for summary suspension from office pursuant to Section 67d.

Pursuant with the general orders issued from headquarters, the court-martial, consisting of thirteen officers, convened at Tacubaya, for the trial of Traverse Rocke, private in the--Regiment of Infantry, accused of sleeping on his post.

To all whom it may concern schedule pursuant to statute showing return of number of mules and jennets exported from Ballina.

The court furthermore stated that the act of claiming the ship would serve as indication that the firm of Gomez, Gomez and Gomez did agree to absolve Don Abdullah de Baza of any guilt or indebtedness pursuant to the loss of the ship Ana Gomez, her fittings and supplies, her guns and her cargo at time of loss.

My Lord, I have the honour to acquaint YOU that pursuant to my orders I proceeded to Cape Nao, where I fell in with a convoy of three sail under the conduct of a French corvetto of twelve guns.

Pursuant to section 29713 of the Childhood Protection Act, stipulating childcare arrangements for dependent children with both parents drawing paychecks, you are hereby notified of the requirement to remand your daughter, Yalena Khrustinova, for federally mandated daycare, to begin no more than three business days after receipt of this notification.

Pursuant to the young Hindu's suggestions, the one professor of comparative linguistics in the world capable of understanding and conversing in this peculiar version of the dead dialect was summoned from an academic convention in New York, where he was reading a paper he had been working on for eighteen years: An Initial Study of Apparent Relationships Between Several Past Participles in Ancient Sanskrit and an Equal Number of Noun Substantives in Modern Szechuanese.

Sir William Phips arrived with Commission from Their Majesties to be Governour, pursuant to the New-Charter.

Pursuant to Lang and Exedore's requests, it was more Zentraedi than Terran in design: a nontransformable deepspace leviathan, bristling with antennae and blistered across its crimson surface with scanner ports and laser-array gun turrets.

We hereby authorize you to accept command-grade instructions from the current and future presidents of Jefferson, pursuant to article 9510.

Armstrong swore, under oath, that he was unaware of any imperfections in the technology of the ACIP or of any violations of the law pursuant to the ACIP’.

Jaw muscles flexed when he reached the contents of paragraph two: Pursuant to section 29713 of the Childhood Protection Act, stipulating childcare arrangements for dependent children with both parents drawing paychecks, you are hereby notified of the requirement to remand your daughter, Yalena Khrustinova, for federally mandated daycare, to begin no more than three business days after receipt of this notification.