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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a district that is reserved for particular purpose [syn: reservation, reserve]
2: a statement that limits or restricts some claim; "he recommended her without any reservations" [syn: reservation, qualification]
3: an unstated doubt that prevents you from accepting something wholeheartedly [syn: mental reservation, reservation, arriere pensee]
4: the act of reserving (a place or passage) or engaging the services of (a person or group); "wondered who had made the booking" [syn: booking, reservation]
5: the written record or promise of an arrangement by which accommodations are secured in advance
6: something reserved in advance (as a hotel accommodation or a seat on a plane etc.)
7: the act of keeping back or setting aside for some future occasion

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 15th century 1. an act of reserving something: as a. (1) the act or fact of a grantor's reserving some newly created thing out of the thing granted (2) the right or interest so reserved b. the setting of limiting conditions or withholding from complete exposition <answered without reservation> c. an arrangement to have something (as a hotel room) held for one's use; also a promise, guarantee, or record of such engagement 2. a. a limiting condition <agreed, but with reservations> b. doubt, misgiving <had serious reservations about marriage> 3. something reserved: as a. a tract of public land set aside (as for use by American Indians) b. an area in which hunting is not permitted; especially one set aside as a secure breeding place • reservationist noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 the act or an instance of reserving or being reserved. 2 a booking (of a room, berth, seat, etc.). 3 the thing booked, e.g. a room in a hotel. 4 an express or tacit limitation or exception to an agreement etc. (had reservations about the plan). 5 Brit. a strip of land between the carriageways of a road. 6 an area of land reserved for occupation by American Indians, African Blacks, or Australian Aboriginals, etc. 7 a a right or interest retained in an estate being conveyed. b the clause reserving this. 8 Eccl. a the practice of retaining for some purpose a portion of the Eucharistic elements (esp. the bread) after celebration. b RC Ch. the power of absolution reserved to a superior. c RC Ch. the right reserved to the Pope of nomination to a vacant benefice. Etymology: ME f. OF reservation or LL reservatio (as RESERVE)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Reservation Res`er*va"tion (r?z`?r-v?"sh?n), n. [Cf. F. r['e]servation, LL. reservatio. See Reserve.] 1. The act of reserving, or keeping back; concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve. --A. Smith. With reservation of an hundred knights. --Shak. Make some reservation of your wrongs. --Shak. 2. Something withheld, either not expressed or disclosed, or not given up or brought forward. --Dryden. 3. A tract of the public land reserved for some special use, as for schools, for the use of Indians, etc. [U.S.] 4. The state of being reserved, or kept in store. --Shak. 5. (Law) (a) A clause in an instrument by which some new thing is reserved out of the thing granted, and not in esse before. (b) A proviso. --Kent. Note: This term is often used in the same sense with exception, the technical distinction being disregarded. 6. (Eccl.) (a) The portion of the sacramental elements reserved for purposes of devotion and for the communion of the absent and sick. (b) A term of canon law, which signifies that the pope reserves to himself appointment to certain benefices. Mental reservation, the withholding, or failing to disclose, something that affects a statement, promise, etc., and which, if disclosed, would materially change its import.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(reservations) 1. If you have reservations about something, you are not sure that it is entirely good or right. I told him my main reservation about his film was the ending... N-VAR: oft N about n 2. If you make a reservation, you arrange for something such as a table in a restaurant or a room in a hotel to be kept for you. He went to the desk to make a reservation... = booking N-COUNT 3. A reservation is an area of land that is kept separate for a particular group of people to live in. Seventeen thousand Indians live in Arizona on a reservation. N-COUNT 4. see also central reservation

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Concealment, suppression, reserve. 2. Reserve, something reserved, restriction, exception, saving. 3. Salvo, proviso. 4. Custody.

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