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Definition of Alternat
1. n. A usage, among diplomats, of rotation in precedence among representatives of equal rank, sometimes determined by lot and at other times in regular order. The practice obtains in the signing of treaties and conventions between nations.
Definition of Alternat
1. a way of determining diplomatic precedence by lot [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alternat
Literary usage of Alternat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. International Law Chiefly as Interpreted and Applied by the United States by Charles Cheney Hyde (1922)
"The alternat. b In drawing up international agreements it is the practice of States
... This is known as the principle of the alternat, and is observed by ..."
2. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1907)
"alternat*- blasts, supply an immense quantity of wind, tad are worked by seventy
strong men, .... alternat ..."
3. Halleck's International Law: Or, Rules Regulating the Intercourse of States by Henry Wager Halleck, Sherston Baker (1878)
"Where the rank of different States is equal or undetermined, resort has sometimes
been had to the usage of the alternat, as it is called, by which the rank ..."
4. Elements of International Law by Henry Wheaton (1904)
"The regulation of the Congress of Vienna, above referred to, provides that in
acts and treaties between those powers which admit the alternat, the order to ..."
5. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa ( Gray, Merritt Lyndon Fernald, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson (1908)
"Fleshy saline plants, with alternat« nearly terete linear leaves. (An Arabic name.
... alternat ..."
6. International Law; Or, Rules Regulating the Intercourse of States in Peace by Henry Wager Halleck (1861)
"Where the rank of different states is equal or undetermined, resort has sometimes
been had to the usage of the alternat, as it is called, by which the rank ..."
7. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"Akènes naked, at least not strongly filiate : leaves usually opposite or the
upper alternat«1, broad, usually serrate, sometimes 3-5-lobed, ..."
8. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1914)
"AlTERNAt»IG CURRENT ELECTROLYSIS. >.-• .- ' *•' ' - * T * h* used is a very small
one, such as is generally used in the conductivity measurements according ..."
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