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Nave Topical Bible
• Majority and Minority Reports
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1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Saint Mary Major
Webster Dictionary
• Tierce-Major
• Majority
• Majorities
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1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Canis Major
• John Major
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McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Causee Majores
• Major, Georg
• Major, Johann
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Bath, Major
• Bridgenorth, Major Ralph
• Hodson, Major William
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The Jewish Encyclopedia
• Major, Julius
• Major, Solomon Ibn
• Majority
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• πολύς
• גָּבוֹל גָּדוֹל, , הַגְּדוֹלִים

(Fr. majorite; Med. Lat. majoritas; Lat. major, greater), a term signifying the greater number. In legislative and deliberative assemblies it is usual to decide questions by a majority of those present at a meeting and voting. In law, majority is the state of being of full age, which in the United Kingdom is twenty-one years of age. A person attains his majority at twelve o'clock at night of the day preceding his twenty-first birthday (see Infant; AGE).