Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pactitious

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pacti-tious
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Settled by a pact or treaty; relating to pacts or treaties.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"Pactitious rights and obligations may cease in various ways. In a conditional pact the obligation ceases when the condition becomes impossible. In any other pact, when the pactitious right is remitted. Pacts are dissolved when both parties remit their reciprocal pactitious rights: […]"
"The power given to Congress by the constitution to regulate commerce, cannot extend to that […] which can only be regulated by compact, or by the treaty making, or pactitious powers."
"The aggression was in breach of national, moral, and pactitious faith […]"

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pactītius, pactīcius.

Usage

Obsolete

Questions

What does pactitious mean?: Settled by a pact or treaty; relating to pacts or treaties.
Where does pactitious come from?: Borrowed from Latin pactītius, pactīcius.

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