Deed
[diːd] or [did]
Definition
(noun.) a legal document signed and sealed and delivered to effect a transfer of property and to show the legal right to possess it; 'he signed the deed'; 'he kept the title to his car in the glove compartment'.
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Definition
(a.) Dead.
(v. t.) That which is done or effected by a responsible agent; an act; an action; a thing done; -- a word of extensive application, including, whatever is done, good or bad, great or small.
(v. t.) Illustrious act; achievement; exploit.
(v. t.) Power of action; agency; efficiency.
(v. t.) Fact; reality; -- whence we have indeed.
(v. t.) A sealed instrument in writing, on paper or parchment, duly executed and delivered, containing some transfer, bargain, or contract.
(v. t.) Performance; -- followed by of.
(v. t.) To convey or transfer by deed; as, he deeded all his estate to his eldest son.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Act, action, performance, exploit, achievement, feat.[2]. Reality, fact, truth.[3]. (Law.) Indenture.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Act, action, commission, achievement, perpetration, instrument, document,muniment, exploit, feat
ANT:Omission, failure, abortion, false-witness, innocence, cancelling, disproof,invalidation, retractation, impossibility, nonperformance, recall, reversion,undoing
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Definition
n. something done: an act: an exploit: a legal transaction: the written evidence of it.—adj. Deed′ful (Tenn.) marked by deeds or exploits.—adv. Deed′ily.—adjs. Deed′less (Shak.) not having performed deeds; Deed′y industrious active.—Deed of saying (Shak.) performance of what has been said or promised.—In deed in reality.
a Scotch form of indeed.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of seeing or signing deeds, portends a law suit, to gain which you should be careful in selecting your counsel, as you are likely to be the loser. To dream of signing any kind of a paper, is a bad omen for the dreamer. See Mortgage.
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Examples
- He waxes strong in all violence and lawlessness; and is ready for any deed of daring that will supply the wants of his rabble-rout. Plato. The Republic.
- The perpetual allotment and destination of this fund, indeed, is not always guarded by any positive law, by any trust-right or deed of mortmain. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Do not let us be frightened from a good deed by a trifle. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- One good deed or one bad one is no measure of a man's character: the Last Judgment let us hope will be no series of decisions as simple as that. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Never by word or deed have you attempted to take advantage of my defenceless condition to insult or torture me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Laurie took Amy to drive, which was a deed of charity, for the sour cream seemed to have had a bad effect upon her temper. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Another lawyer would have drawn up the deed if I had refused to undertake it. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- In the first place, the parents were made accomplices to the deed, for it was only through their mediation it was brought about. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Take this as a warning from men that are starving, and have starving wives and children to go home to when they have done this deed. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Your mad temper lost the signature to the deed, lost the ready money, set Miss Halcombe writing to the lawyer for the first time. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- And 'deed she was right. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- I'll accept the will for the deed, said Wemmick. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- After a single combat of some duration they returned, and I saw, to my joy, both in Mrs. Crupp's countenance and in my aunt's, that the deed was done. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- In the presence of the Chief Butler, he could not have done such a deed. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I never will do a generous deed again. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Except bills of exchange, and some other mercantile bills, all other deeds, bonds, and contracts, are subject to a stamp duty. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The troops engaged in them will have to look to the detailed reports of their individual commanders for the full history of those deeds. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- These things and deeds are diametrically opposed: they are as distinct as is vice from virtue. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Think of the deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- If any good should come of me, I might begin to hope; for nothing but harm has ever come of my deeds yet. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Great and exalted deeds are what he lives to perform. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I have known it do as bad deeds, and worse, many a time. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Our deeds are fetters that we forge ourselves. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He sees no farther than his own straight nose, else he would be more cautious in his deeds, and less daring in his words. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- That is the wickedest of your deeds. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Dunnot be a fool, says he, words come readier than deeds to most men. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- That of the greater part of deeds of other kinds, is frequently inconvenient and even dangerous to individuals, without any advantage to the public. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Most men do a little regret and resent their good deeds, and find a secret satisfaction in their unpunished bad ones. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Let them hope for perpetual peace and harmony with that enemy, whose manhood, however mistaken the cause, drew forth such herculean deeds of valor. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Our deeds still travel with us from afar, And what we have been makes us what we are. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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