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special term
noun
- the sitting of a court for the trial of a special case.
- the sitting of a court at an extraordinary time.
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Example Sentences
This name was Katie's special term of endearment, and never used except when they were alone; no one else ever called her by it.
But one special term of the compact was that the outer world should have no acquaintance with things that happened between them.
It has a special term of its own, being stated to be "in his pride" when shown affront, and with the tail displayed (Fig. 469).
In this branch of the line the special term for this cousin, amitina, is also set aside for the descriptive phrase amit filia.
The Democrats, in order to kill the banks, were bent on a sine die adjournment of the special term.
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