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Definition of Pursuant
1. Adjective. (followed by 'to') in conformance to or agreement with. "Pursuant to the dictates of one's conscience"
Definition of Pursuant
1. a. Acting in consequence or in prosecution (of anything); hence, agreeable; conformable; following; according; -- with to or of.
2. adv. Agreeably; conformably.
Definition of Pursuant
1. Adjective. in conformance to, or in agreement with ¹
2. Adverb. accordingly, consequently ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pursuant
1. in accordance [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pursuant
Literary usage of Pursuant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1904)
"Т 80 as an officer in the Navy between the date of his dismissal from the servie«
pursuant to the sentence of a court-martial and his reinstatement by ..."
2. Journal by New York (State). Legislature. Senate (1921)
"Ordered, That the Clerk transmit said bill to the mayor of the city of New York
for a hearing, pursuant to the provisions of the Constitution. ..."
3. Journal by New York (State). Legislature. Senate, United States Congress. Senate (1876)
"In lines 13, 14 and 15, page 5, the following, " pursuant to chapter four hundred
and forty-two of the Laws of eighteen hundred and seventy- two. ..."
4. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1909)
"A defendant who is arrested and in custody pursuant to Revisa! 1905, S 727, subsec.
2, authorizing the arrest of defendant in enumerated actions, ..."
5. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1905)
"See "In Pursuance Of." pursuant. A decree reciting that it was made pursuant to the
... "pursuant to law," as used In a statute providing that witnesses in ..."
6. A Treatise on the Power and Duty of an Arbitrator, and the Law of by Francis Russell (1878)
"i'l' judgment after time for If the plaintiff, pursuant to the award, ... Thus the
court will set aside a judgment signed pursuant to an award, ..."
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