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English
English : habitational name from various places, for example Penn in Buckinghamshire and Staffordshire, named with the Celtic element pen ‘hill’, which was apparently adopted in Old English.English : metonymic occupational name for an impounder of stray animals, from Middle English, Old English penn ‘(sheep) pen’.English : pet form of Parnell.German : from Sorbian pien ‘tree stump’, probably a nickname for a short stocky person.Americanized form of a like-sounding Jewish surname.The Commonwealth of PA was founded in 1681 by an English Quaker, William Penn (1644–1718), who was born in London into a family of Gloucestershire origin. His grandfather was a merchant and sea captain, and his father was an admiral on the Parliamentary side during the Civil War, who later served King Charles II after the Restoration. Because of his father’s services to the crown, Penn the younger received a grant of a vast tract of land in North America, formerly part of New Netherland, which later became the state of PA.
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dalach meaning “â€frequenter of gatheringsâ€â€ and refers, therefore to a “â€counsellor.â€â€ The Irish Parliament is known as the Dail (pron. “â€doyleâ€â€), which means “â€a gathering.â€â€
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English (of Norman origin) and French
English (of Norman origin) and French : habitational name from various places in France named Beaufort, for example in Nord, Somme, and Pas-de-Calais, from Old French beu, bel ‘fair’, ‘lovely’ + fort ‘fortress’, ‘stronghold’.A powerful English family of this name originated with the bastard children of John of Gaunt and Catherine Swinford, who were legitimized by Act of Parliament. Their name was derived from their father’s castle, Beaufort, in Champagne.
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Irish : sometimes of English origin, but in County Kerry it is usually an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó DuinnÃn (see Dineen).English : patronymic from a variant of Dunn 2.Sir George Downing (1623–84), baronet, member of Parliament, and ambassador to the Netherlands in the time of both Cromwell and King Charles II, was the second graduate of the first class (1642) at Harvard College. He was born in Dublin, Ireland, the son of Emmanuel Downing of the Inner Temple and his second wife, Lucy Winthrop, sister of John Winthrop. The family emigrated to New England in 1638 and settled at Salem, MA.
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Irish
dalach meaning “â€frequenter of gatheringsâ€â€ and refers, therefore to a “â€counsellor.â€â€ The Irish Parliament is known as the Dail (pron. “â€doyleâ€â€), which means “â€a gathering.â€â€
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Southern French and German
Southern French and German : from Occitan astor ‘goshawk’ (from Latin acceptor, variant of accipiter ‘hawk’), used as a nickname characterizing a predacious or otherwise hawklike man. The name was taken to southwestern Germany by 17th-century Waldensian refugees from their Alpine valleys above Italian Piedmont.English : variant spelling of Aster.Astor is the name of a famous American family of industrialists and newspaper owners. John Jacob Astor I (1763–1848) was born at Walldorf near Heidelberg, Germany, the son of a butcher. He followed his brother Henry to New York and made a fortune in the fur trade, which was greatly increased by his descendants in industry, hotels, and newspapers. They built the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York. The great-grandson of John Jacob I, William Waldorf Astor (1848–1919), moved to England in 1890, becoming an influential newspaper proprietor and taking British citizenship in 1899. In 1917 he was created Viscount Astor of Hever. His son, the 2nd Viscount (1879–1952), married Nancy Shaw (née Langhorne) (1879–1964), daughter of a VA planter. She became the first woman to sit in the British House of Commons as a member of Parliament.
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English (of Norman origin), French, and North German
English (of Norman origin), French, and North German : from Giselbert, a Norman personal name composed of the Germanic elements gīsil ‘pledge’, ‘hostage’, ‘noble youth’ (see Giesel) + berht ‘bright’, ‘famous’. This personal name enjoyed considerable popularity in England during the Middle Ages, partly as a result of the fame of St. Gilbert of Sempringham (1085–1189), the founder of the only native English monastic order.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : Americanized form of one or more like-sounding Jewish surnames.The Devon family of Gilbert can be traced to Geoffrey Gilbert (died 1349), who represented Totnes in Parliament in 1326. His descendants included Sir Humphrey Gilbert (died 1583), who discovered Newfoundland.
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Irish
dalach meaning “â€frequenter of gatheringsâ€â€ and refers, therefore to a “â€counsellor.â€â€ The Irish Parliament is known as the Dail (pron. “â€doyleâ€â€), which means “â€a gathering.â€â€
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Variant form of Norman French Gy, a derivative of Latin Wido, GUY means "wide." This name was popular until 1605 when Guy Fawkes tried to blow up Parliament after which it acquired the negative connotation "grotesque man." In Arthurian legend, this is the name of a son of Bevis of Hamptoun. In use by the English.
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English : presumably a nickname, or an occupational name for someone in the service of parliament, the British deliberative assembly. The name is recorded in northeast England in the 17th and 18th centuries, but appears to have died out there in the early 19th century. It is not found in the 1881 British census.
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English
English : regional name from the county of this name, so called from Old English Sumor(tūn)sǣte ‘dwellers at the summer settlement’.
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Indian, Sanskrit
Wanderer; Itinerant
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Indian, Telugu
Love
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Biblical
Inheritance, valley of God'.
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Native American
Squirrel.
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(Καλλίας) Greek name derived from the word kallos, KALLIAS means "beauty."
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Hindu
Satisfaction, Peace, Happiness
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Tamil
Summit, Peak
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Egyptian
, the royal scribe of an unnamed monarch.
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Tamil
Savitashri | ஸவிதாஷà¯à®°à¯€
Luster of the Sun
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A temporary aid issuing out of personal property, and granted to the king by Parliament; formerly, the real tenth part of all the movables belonging to the subject.
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Lasting or continuing seven years; as, septennial parliaments.
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Enacted or done by Parliament; as, a parliamentary act.
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A member or a supporter of the Rump Parliament.
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According to the rules and usages of Parliament or of deliberative bodies; as, a parliamentary motion.
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Continuing three years; as, triennial parliaments; a triennial reign.
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Of or pertaining to Parliament.
v. t.
To make vacant; to leave empty; to cease from filling or occupying; as, it was resolved by Parliament that James had vacated the throne of England; the tenant vacated the house.
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Hence, also, the time, period, or term during which a court, council, legislature, etc., meets daily for business; or, the space of time between the first meeting and the prorogation or adjournment; thus, a session of Parliaments is opened with a speech from the throne, and closed by prorogation. The session of a judicial court is called a term.
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One who adhered to the Parliament, in opposition to King Charles I.
v. t.
A call made upon members of a Parliament party to be in their places at a given time, as when a vote is to be taken.
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Parliamentary.
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One versed in the rules and usages of Parliament or similar deliberative assemblies; as, an accomplished parliamentarian.
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A short-lived political club established in 1659 by J.Harrington to inculcate the democratic doctrine of election of the principal officers of the state by ballot, and the annual retirement of a portion of Parliament.
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Of or pertaining to Parliament; as, parliamentary authority.
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Not parliamentary; contrary to the practice of parliamentary bodies.
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One of a political party which grew up in England in the seventeenth century, in the reigns of Charles I. and II., when great contests existed respecting the royal prerogatives and the rights of the people. Those who supported the king in his high claims were called Tories, and the advocates of popular rights, of parliamentary power over the crown, and of toleration to Dissenters, were, after 1679, called Whigs. The terms Liberal and Radical have now generally superseded Whig in English politics. See the note under Tory.
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Formerly, in England, an officer nearly answering to the more modern bailiff of the hundred; also, an officer whose duty was to attend on the king, and on the lord high steward in court, to arrest traitors and other offenders. He is now called sergeant-at-arms, and two of these officers, by allowance of the sovereign, attend on the houses of Parliament (one for each house) to execute their commands, and another attends the Court Chancery.
v. t.
A person (as a member of Parliament) appointed to enforce party discipline, and secure the attendance of the members of a Parliament party at any important session, especially when their votes are needed.
adv.
In a parliamentary manner.