'By right' definitions:
Definition of 'By right'
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- Right \Right\, n. [AS. right. See Right, a.]
- 1. That which is right or correct. Specifically: (a) The straight course; adherence to duty; obedience to lawful authority, divine or human; freedom from guilt, -- the opposite of moral wrong. (b) A true statement; freedom from error of falsehood; adherence to truth or fact. [1913 Webster]
- Seldom your opinions err; Your eyes are always in the right. --Prior. [1913 Webster] (c) A just judgment or action; that which is true or proper; justice; uprightness; integrity. [1913 Webster]
- Long love to her has borne the faithful knight, And well deserved, had fortune done him right. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That to which one has a just claim. Specifically: (a) That which one has a natural claim to exact. [1913 Webster]
- There are no rights whatever, without corresponding duties. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster] (b) That which one has a legal or social claim to do or to exact; legal power; authority; as, a sheriff has a right to arrest a criminal. (c) That which justly belongs to one; that which one has a claim to possess or own; the interest or share which anyone has in a piece of property; title; claim; interest; ownership. [1913 Webster]
- Born free, he sought his right. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- Hast thou not right to all created things? --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Men have no right to what is not reasonable. --Burke. [1913 Webster] (d) Privilege or immunity granted by authority. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The right side; the side opposite to the left. [1913 Webster]
- Led her to the Souldan's right. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 4. In some legislative bodies of Europe (as in France), those members collectively who are conservatives or monarchists. See Center, 5. [1913 Webster]
- 5. The outward or most finished surface, as of a piece of cloth, a carpet, etc. [1913 Webster]
- At all right, at all points; in all respects. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
- Bill of rights, a list of rights; a paper containing a declaration of rights, or the declaration itself. See under Bill.
- By right, By rights, or By good rights, rightly; properly; correctly. [1913 Webster]
- He should himself use it by right. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- I should have been a woman by right. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Divine right, or
- Divine right of kings, a name given to the patriarchal theory of government, especially to the doctrine that no misconduct and no dispossession can forfeit the right of a monarch or his heirs to the throne, and to the obedience of the people.
- To rights. (a) In a direct line; straight. [R.] --Woodward. (b) At once; directly. [Obs. or Colloq.] --Swift.
- To set to rights, To put to rights, to put in good order; to adjust; to regulate, as what is out of order.
- Writ of right (Law), a writ which lay to recover lands in fee simple, unjustly withheld from the true owner. --Blackstone. [1913 Webster]
Words containing 'By right'
- At all right,
- By rights,
- Right,
- Right off,
- Righted,
- Rightful,
- Rightfully,
- Rightfulness,
- Righting,
- Rightly,
- Rightness,
- To rights,
- all right,
- in her own right,
- in his own right,
- in its own right,
- just right,
- not right,
- own right,
- right on,
- At right angles,
- Bill of Rights,
- By good rights,
- Declaration of rights,
- Divine right,
- Heritable rights,
- Mineral right,
- Patent right,
- Personal rights,
- Petition of right,
- Right Center,
- Right along,
- Right and left,
- Right angle,
- Right ascension,
- Right away,
- Right bower,
- Right cone,
- Right cylinder,
- Right descension,
- Right hand,
- Right honorable,
- Right line,
- Right of drain,
- Right of drip,
- Right of nullification,
- Right of search,
- Right of support,
- Right of the tabouret,
- Right of visit,
- Right of way,
- Right prism,
- Right pyramid,
- Right sailing,
- Right sphere,
- Right whale,
- Right-about,
- State rights,
- States' rights,
- The Petition of Right,
- To dress to the right,
- To put to rights,
- To right a vessel,
- To right the helm,
- To set right,
- To set to rights,
- Writ of right,
- accordance of rights,
- by right of office,
- civil right,
- civil rights,
- conjugal right,
- exclusive right,
- hard right,
- human right,
- in her right mind,
- in his right mind,
- in one's own right,
- in their right minds,
- legal right,
- natural right,
- preemptive right,
- property right,
- put right,
- put to rights,
- radical right,
- religious right,
- right atrium,
- right bank,
- right brain,
- right field,
- right fielder,
- right hander,
- right hemisphere,
- right in rem,
- right mind,
- right minded,
- right of action,
- right of election,
- right of entry,
- right of offset,
- right of privacy,
- right perpendicular,
- right smart,
- right sort,
- right stage,
- right to an attorney,
- right to liberty,
- right to life,
- right to privacy,
- right to vote,
- right triangle,
- right ventricle,
- right wing,
- right winger,
- right-down,
- rights issue,
- rights offering,
- riparian right,
- set right,
- stage right,
- subscription right,
- the right way,
- undivided right,
- visitation right,
- voting right,
- water right,
- Divine right of kings,
- Pygmy right whale,
- Right and left coupling,
- Right and left screw,
- Right of eminent domain,
- Right shoulder arms,
- Right-angled,
- Right-hand,
- Right-handed,
- Right-handedness,
- Right-hearted,
- Right-heartedness,
- Right-lined,
- Right-minded,
- Right-mindedness,
- Right-running,
- To send to the right-about,
- To serve one right,
- To take ground to the right,
- civil rights activist,
- civil rights leader,
- civil rights movement,
- civil rights worker,
- commission on human rights,
- conjugal visitation right,
- far-right,
- right atrioventricular valve,
- right atrium of the heart,
- right coronary artery,
- right gastric artery,
- right gastric vein,
- right hand man,
- right of first publication,
- right to confront accusors,
- right to due process,
- right to the pursuit of happiness,
- right-about-face,
- right-eyed,
- right-hander,
- right-of-way,
- right-side-out,
- right-side-up,
- right-wing,
- right-winger,
- sense of right and wrong,
- special drawing rights,
- Right-hand rope,
- Right-handed screw,
- extreme right-winger,
- right of re-entry,
- right-angled triangle,
- right-hand man,
- right-handed pitcher,
- states' rights democratic party,
- right to speedy and public trial by jury,
- orthogonal orthographic rectangular right-angled