KJV Dictionary Definition: reservation

reservation

RESERVA'TION, n. s as z. L. reservo.

1. The act of reserving or keeping back or in the mind; reserve; concealment or withholding from disclosure; as mental reservation.

2. Something withheld, either not expressed or disclosed, or not given up or brought forward.

With reservation of a hundred knights.

In the United States, a tract of land not sold with the rest, is called a reservation.

3. Custody; state of being treasured up or kept in store.

4. In law, a clause or part of an instrument by which something is reserved, not conceded or granted; also, a proviso.

Mental reservation is the withholding of expression or disclosure of something that affects a proposition or statement, and which if disclosed, would materially vary its import.

Mental reservations are the refuge of hypocrites.

reservative

RESERV'ATIVE, a. Keeping; reserving.

reserve

RESERVE, v.t. rezerv'. L. reservo; re and servo, to keep.

1. To keep in store for future or other use; to withhold from present use for another purpose. The farmer sells his corn, reserving only what is necessary for his family.

Hast thou seen the treasures of hail, which I have reserved against the day of trouble? Job 38.

2. To keep; to hold; to retain.

Will he reserve his anger for ever? Jer. 3.

3. To lay up and keep for a future time. 2Peter 2.

Reserve your kind looks and language for private hours.

RESERVE, n. rezerv'.

1. That which is kept for other or future use; that which is retained from present use or disposal.

The virgins, besides the oil in their lamps, carried likewise a reserve in some other vessel for a continual supply.

2. Something in the mind withheld from disclosure.

However any one may concur in the general scheme, it is still with certain reserves and deviations.

3. Exception; something withheld.

Is knowledge so despis'd? or envy, or what reserve forbids to taste?

4. Exception in favor.

Each has some darling lust, which pleads for a reserve.

5. Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior. Reserve may proceed from modesty, bashfulness, prudence, prudery or sullenness.

My soul surpris'd, and from her sex disjoin'd, left all reserve, and all the sex behind.

6. In law, reservation.

In reserve, in store; in keeping for other or future use. He has large quantities of wheat in reserve. He has evidence or arguments in reserve.

Body of reserve, in military affairs, the third or last line of an army drawn up for battle, reserved to sustain the other lines as occasion may require; a body of troops kept for an exigency.

reserved

RESERV'ED, pp.

1. Kept for another or future use; retained.

2. a. Restrained from freedom in words or actions; backward in conversation; not free or frank.

To all obliging, yet reserv'd to all.

Nothing reserv'd or sullen was to see.

reserver

RESERV'ER, n. One that reserves.

reserving

RESERV'ING, ppr. Keeping back; keeping for other use or for use at a future time; retaining.

Definitions from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.
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