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1. A payment or fee of a fixed amount per person.
2. A numbering or assessing by the head.
3. A fixed per capita payment made periodically to a medical service provider (as a physician) by a managed care group (as an HMO) in return for medical care provided to enrolled individuals.

1. The act of verifying or ratifying something.
2. Something that supports, validates, or verifies something else: "He said it was a confirmation of his worst thoughts."
3. In Christianity, a religious ceremony that marks someone's formal acceptance into a church.
4. In Reform Judaism, a ceremony that marks the completion of someone's religious training and entry into full adult membership of the community.

1. A large fire that causes a great deal of damage.
2. A very intense and uncontrolled fire.
3. A large and destructive fire; a general burning.
4. A large and violent event; such as, a war involving many people.
5. Something like a conflagration: a conflict; a war.

Flocking together; as, in a church.

1. A large formal assembly; such as, of a college or university community, or the senior members of a church.
2. The arranging, or calling together, of a formal meeting.
3. Etymology: from Latin convocationem, from convocare, "to call together"; from com-, "together" + vocare, "to call"; from vox, "voice".

1. The giving up or devoting (of oneself, one's time, labor, etc.) to the service of a person or to the pursuit of a purpose.
2. The dedicating of a book, etc.; the form of words in which a writing, engraving, etc., is dedicated to some person.
3. The action of dedicating (a highway, etc.) to public use.
4. An act or process of setting something aside for a particular purpose; especially, in a ceremony that achieves this.

1. The forcible expulsion of a foreign national from a country.
2. The banishment or expulsion of someone from his or her own country.

1. The pronunciation of words that are to be written down.
2. The activity of taking down a passage that is read aloud by a teacher as a test of spelling, writing, or language skills.
3. Arbitrary command; the exercise of dictatorship.
4. The action of giving orders authoritatively or categorically.