Definition of reservation
- n. - The act of reserving, or keeping back; concealment, or
withholding from disclosure; reserve.
- n. - Something withheld, either not expressed or disclosed,
or not given up or brought forward.
- n. - A tract of the public land reserved for some special
use, as for schools, for the use of Indians, etc.
- n. - The state of being reserved, or kept in store.
- n. - A clause in an instrument by which some new thing is
reserved out of the thing granted, and not in esse before.
- n. - A proviso.
- n. - The portion of the sacramental elements reserved for
purposes of devotion and for the communion of the absent and sick.
- n. - A term of canon law, which signifies that the pope
reserves to himself appointment to certain benefices.