The person to whom an estate is first given by destination or limitation.
An organization founded to promote a cause
An institution of learning; a college, especially for technical subjects
The building housing such an institution
To invest with the spiritual charge of a benefice, or the care of souls.
To nominate; to appoint.
To begin or initiate (something); to found.
Receiving from someone's care what one has earlier entrusted to them. Usually refers to money.
A method of birth control which consists of removing the penis from the vagina before ejaculation.
An act of withdrawing or a state of being withdrawn.
The sum of money taken from a bank account.
A type of metabolic shock the body undergoes when a substance, usually a toxin such as heroin, to which a patient is dependent is withheld. Sometimes used with the substance as modifier.