utilitarianism (utilitarianizm)

[ utilitarianize (u-til-i-tā'ri-an-iz), v. t.; pret. and pp. utilitarianized, ppr. utilitarian i zing. [ thing. = Matter-of-fact people,. who utilitarianize every Mrs. C. Meredith , My Home in Tasmania. utility (u-til'i-ti), n.; pl. utilities (-tiz). [ utylite , utilite , F. utilité = Sp. utilidad = Pg. utilidade It. utilità, utilita (t-)s, usefulne , serviceablene , profit, utilis , useful: see utile.] 1. The character of being useful; usefulne ; profitablene ; the state of being serviceable or conducive to some desirable or valuable end. Rootes smale of noon utilitee Cutte of for lettyng of fertilitee. Palladius , Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 79. By utility is meant that property in any object whereby it tends to produce benefit, advantage, pleasure, good, or happine . Jevons, Pol. Econ., p. 42. An undertaking of enormous labour, and yet of only very partial utility . Fitzedward Hall , Modern English, p. 36. 2. Use; profit. IMG:content-1654.png:[blocks in formation] [ utilize + -able .] able. utilization (ū"ti-li-za's hon), n. [ A man of genius, but of genius that evaded utilization, Lowell, Fireside Travels, p. 63. utilize (ū'ti-līz), v. t.; pret. and pp. utilized, ppr. utilizing. [= F. utiliser = Sp. Pg. utilizar = It. utilizzare; as utile + -ize.] To turn to profitable account or use; make useful; make use of: as, to utilize a stream for driving machinery. Also spelled utilise. A variety of new compounds and combinations of words [are contained in Barlow's "Columbiad"] as, to util ise ; to vagrate, . Edinburgh Rev. , XV. 28. In the Edinburgh Review for 1809. exception is taken to. utilize.. Utilize, a word both useful and readily intelligible, was very slow in becoming naturalized. Fitzedward Hall, Modern English, p. 128. utilizer (ū'ti-li-zer), n. [ ut infra (ut in'frä). [L.: ut, as; infra, below: see infra-.] As below. uti po idetis (ū'ti pos-i-dē'tis). [L.: uti = ut, as; po idetis, 2d pers. pl. pres. ind. of pos sidere, po e : see po e .] 1. An interdict of the civil law by which a person who was in po e ion of an immovable was protected against any disturbance of his po e ion. It could also be used where there was a suit pending about the title, in order to determine with whom the po e ion should remain during the suit. Only the po e or animo domini was protected, except in a few cases where the protection of the interdict was extended to certain persons who had the mere physical po e ion. The question of good faith was as a rule unimportant, except that if the po e ion had been acquired by force, or by stealth, or as a mere precarium from the defendant, the in could be used against him, defendant could not object that the po e ion had been acquired in this way from a third person. This interdict and the corresponding one for movables were called retinendæ (except in some po e ion is (for retaining po e ion), as they were granted fer) only to persons who had not lost their po e ion, but had merely been disturbed in it. 2. In international law, the basis or principle of a treaty which leaves belligerent parties in po e ion of what they have acquired by their arms during the war. some cases, about which the commentators dif