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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Grant

Grant, v. t.

verbtransitive

(6), v. t. [imp. & p. p. GRANTED; p. pr. & vb. n. GRANTING.] [O. Eng. graunt, Norm. Fr. graunter, granter, O. Fr. graunter, graunter, granter, creanter, creanter, cranter, to promise, yield, Lat. as if credentare, to make believe, from credens, p. pr. of credere, to believe.]

Sense 1. To give over; to make conveyance of; to give the possession or title of; — usually in answer to petition; to convey.

Grant me the place of this threshing-floor. 1 Chron. xxi. 22.

Sense 2. To bestow or confer, with or without compensation, particularly in answer to prayer or request.

Wherefore did God grant me my request. Milton.

Sense 3. To admit as true when disputed or not satisfactorily proved; to yield belief to; to allow; to yield; to concede.

Grant that the Fates have firmed by their decree. Dryden.

Synonyms— To give; confer; bestow; convey; transfer; admit; allow; concede. See GIVE.

Grant, n.

noun

n. 1. The act of granting; a bestowing or conferring; concession; admission of something as true.

  1. The thing granted or bestowed; a gift; a boon.
  2. (Law.) A transfer of property by deed or writing; especially, an appropriation or conveyance made by the government; as, a grant of land.

☞ Formerly, in English law, the term was specifically applied to transfers of incorporeal hereditaments, expectant estates, and letters-patent from government; and such is its present application in some of the United States. But now, in England, the usual mode of transferring realty is by grant; and so, in some of the States, the term grant is applied to conveyances of every kind of real property. Bouvier. Burvill.