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  • English Word Championed Definition of Champion
  • English Word Championing Definition of Champion
  • English Word Championness Definition A female champion.
  • English Word Championship Definition State of being champion; leadership; supremacy.
  • English Word Champlain period Definition A subdivision of the Quaternary age immediately following the Glacial period; -- so named from beds near Lake Champlain.
  • English Word Chamsin Definition See Kamsin.
  • English Word Chance Definition A supposed material or psychical agent or mode of activity other than a force, law, or purpose; fortune; fate; -- in this sense often personified.
  • English Word Chance Definition The operation or activity of such agent.
  • English Word Chance Definition The supposed effect of such an agent; something that befalls, as the result of unknown or unconsidered forces; the issue of uncertain conditions; an event not calculated upon; an unexpected occurrence; a happening; accident; fortuity; casualty.
  • English Word Chance Definition A possibility; a likelihood; an opportunity; -- with reference to a doubtful result; as, a chance to escape; a chance for life; the chances are all against him.
  • English Word Chance Definition Probability.
  • English Word Chance Definition To happen, come, or arrive, without design or expectation.
  • English Word Chance Definition To take the chances of; to venture upon; -- usually with it as object.
  • English Word Chance Definition To befall; to happen to.
  • English Word Chance Definition Happening by chance; casual.
  • English Word Chance Definition By chance; perchance.
  • English Word Chance-medley Definition The killing of another in self-defense upon a sudden and unpremeditated encounter. See Chaud-Medley.
  • English Word Chance-medley Definition Luck; chance; accident.
  • English Word Chanceable Definition Fortuitous; casual.
  • English Word Chanceably Definition By chance.
  • English Word Chanced Definition of Chance
  • English Word Chanceful Definition Hazardous.
  • English Word Chancel Definition That part of a church, reserved for the use of the clergy, where the altar, or communion table, is placed.
  • English Word Chancel Definition All that part of a cruciform church which is beyond the line of the transept farthest from the main front.
  • English Word Chancellery Definition Chancellorship.
  • English Word Chancellor Definition A judicial court of chancery, which in England and in the United States is distinctively a court with equity jurisdiction.
  • English Word Chancellorship Definition The office of a chancellor; the time during which one is chancellor.
  • English Word Chancery Definition In England, formerly, the highest court of judicature next to the Parliament, exercising jurisdiction at law, but chiefly in equity; but under the jurisdiction act of 1873 it became the chancery division of the High Court of Justice, and now exercises jurisdiction only in equity.
  • English Word Chancery Definition In the Unites States, a court of equity; equity; proceeding in equity.
  • English Word Chancing Definition of Chance