'Seconding' definitions:
Definition of 'Seconding'
From: GCIDE
- Second \Sec"ond\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Seconded; p. pr. & vb. n. Seconding.] [Cf. F. seconder, L. secundare, from secundus. See Second, a.]
- 1. To follow in the next place; to succeed; to alternate. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- In the method of nature, a low valley is immediately seconded with an ambitious hill. --Fuller. [1913 Webster]
- Sin is seconded with sin. --South. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To follow or attend for the purpose of assisting; to support; to back; to act as the second of; to assist; to forward; to encourage. [1913 Webster]
- We have supplies to second our attempt. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- In human works though labored on with pain, A thousand movements scarce one purpose gain; In God's, one single can its end produce, Yet serves to second too some other use. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Specifically, (Parliamentary Procedure) to support, as a motion[6] or proposal, by adding one's voice to that of the mover or proposer. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Under common parliamentary rules used by many organizations, especially legislative bodies, a motion must be seconded in order to come properly before the deliberative body for discussion. Any motion[6] for which there is no second[8] dies for lack thereof. [PJC]
Words containing 'Seconding'
- Second,
- Seconded,
- Seconder,
- Secondly,
- secondment,
- seconds,
- At second hand,
- Major second,
- Second Adventist,
- Second Mesa,
- Second childhood,
- Second cousin,
- Second distance,
- Second estate,
- Second floor,
- Second girl,
- Second hand,
- Second intention,
- Second story,
- Second thought,
- Second thoughts,
- The second death,
- leap second,
- light second,
- parallax second,
- second Lautverschiebung,
- second advent,
- second adventism,
- second balcony,
- second banana,
- second base,
- second baseman,
- second best,
- second class,
- second coming,
- second cousins,
- second crusade,
- second deck,
- second empire,
- second fiddle,
- second gear,
- second growth,
- second half,
- second joint,
- second lieutenant,
- second moment,
- second mortgage,
- second nature,
- second period,
- second person,
- second power,
- second rate,
- second reading,
- second reich,
- second sacker,
- second sight,
- second stomach,
- second string,
- second to none,
- second trimester,
- second wind,
- split second,
- temple the second,
- watt second,
- Independent seconds watch,
- Second Mesa, AZ,
- Second-class,
- Second-rate,
- Second-sight,
- Second-sighted,
- Thirty-second,
- To heal by the second intention,
- To play second fiddle,
- Twelfth-second,
- Union by the second intention,
- ampere-second,
- bits per second,
- corinthians second epistle to the,
- cycle per second,
- euclid's second axiom,
- forty-second,
- gigacycle per second,
- john second epistle of,
- kepler's second law,
- kilocycle per second,
- megacycle per second,
- newton's second law,
- peter second epistle of,
- second battle of ypres,
- second coming of christ,
- second council of constantinople,
- second council of lyons,
- second council of nicaea,
- second cranial nerve,
- second earl grey,
- second earl of chatham,
- second earl of guilford,
- second epistel of john,
- second epistle of peter,
- second epistle to the corinthians,
- second epistle to the thessalonians,
- second epistle to timothy,
- second lateran council,
- second law of motion,
- second law of thermodynamics,
- second marquis of rockingham,
- second vatican council,
- second world war,
- second-best,
- second-guess,
- second-in-command,
- second-rater,
- second-string,
- second-stringer,
- second-year,
- sweep-second,
- timothy second epistle to,
- twenty-second,
- Second-cut file,
- Thirty-second note,
- goods of the second and higher orders,
- million instructions per second,
- newton's second law of motion,
- one-thirty-second,
- second-class scout,
- second-degree burn,
- second-hand speech,
- second-hand store,
- second-place finish,
- thirty-second part,
- second epistle of paul the apostle to the corinthians,
- second epistle of paul the apostle to the thessalonians,
- second epistle of paul the apostle to timothy,
- million floating point operations per second,
- trillion floating point operations per second,
- united society of believers in christ's second appearing