deodand
noun
de·o·dand
ˈdēəˌdand
plural -s
: a thing that by English law before 1846 was forfeited to the crown and thence to pious uses because it had been the immediate cause of the death of a person
Word History
Etymology
Anglo-French deodande, from Medieval Latin deodandum, from Latin Deo dandum that must be given to God
- narrowingness
- narrowings
- narrowleaf plantain
- narrowlier
- narrowliest
- narrowly
- narrowly define
- narrowness
- narrownesses
- narrows
- narrows (down)
- narrows down
- flattail mullet
- flatted
- flatten
- flattened
- flattened-strand rope
- flattener
- flatteners
- flattening
- flattening oven
- flattening stone
- flattens
- flatter
- flatter oneself