Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The post of an umpire; the act of one who arbitrates as umpire; the decision of an umpire; arbitrament.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The office of an umpire; the power, right, or authority of an umpire to decide.
  • noun The act of umpiring; arbitrament.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun law, archaic The office (or term of office) of an umpire

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun mediation by an umpire
  • noun the act of umpiring

Etymologies

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umpire +‎ -age

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Examples

  • Step into Plunkett House, that hospitable headquarters of the Organization Society, and if you have been nurtured in legends about inextinguishable class and creed antipathies, which are supposed to render Home Rule impossible and the eternal "umpirage" of

    The Framework of Home Rule Erskine Childers 1896

  • We are umpires, "and the reader will no doubt remember that the theory of" umpirage "was used in exactly the same way in the Colonies, notably in Upper Canada, [45] to thwart the tendency towards a reconciliation of creeds, races, and classes.

    The Framework of Home Rule Erskine Childers 1896

  • In putting this great difference unto umpirage, that we may not be thought to fix on a partial arbitrator we shall refer it to one of our greatest and most learned adversaries in this cause.

    The Doctrine of Justification by Faith 1616-1683 1965

  • We should be most unwise, indeed, were we to cast away the singular blessings of the position in which nature has placed us, the opportunity she has endowed us with of pursuing, at a distance from foreign contentions, the paths of industry, peace, and happiness, of cultivating general friendship, and of bringing collisions of interest to the umpirage of reason rather than of force.

    State of the Union Address (1790-2001) United States. Presidents.

  • These difficulties, however, may be overcome by resort to the umpirage provided for by the treaty.

    State of the Union Address (1790-2001) United States. Presidents.

  • We should be most unwise, indeed, were we to cast away the singular blessings of the position in which nature has placed us, the opportunity she has endowed us with of pursuing, at a distance from foreign contentions, the paths of industry, peace, and happiness; of cultivating general friendship, and of bringing collisions of interest to the umpirage of reason rather than of force.

    Inaugural Addresses and Messages 1892

  • Yet it were best to leave an American reference open for audit and umpirage to the stanch E.P. Clark of the New England Bank.

    The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II Carlyle, Thomas 1883

  • These difficulties, however, may be overcome by resort to the umpirage provided for by the treaty.

    A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 5, part 3: Franklin Pierce 1878

  • Yet it were best to leave an American reference open for audit and umpirage to the stanch E.P. Clark of the New

    The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • These difficulties, however, may be overcome by resort to the umpirage provided for by the treaty.

    State of the Union Address Franklin Pierce 1836

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