Mayflower compact

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noun

an agreement to establish a government, entered into by the Pilgrims in the cabin of the Mayflower on November 11, 1620.

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How to use Mayflower compact in a sentence

He felt his body grow limp (like one of those high-speed films of a flower wilting).
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I notice he moves at a slightly slower pace than everyone else, and keeps his gestures compact.
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Her very first performance onstage came at the age of 4, when she cameoed as a dancing flower in the musical Bye Bye Birdie.
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There are lovingly tended flower beds along each road and surrounding every barrack.
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Willie Nelson and Norah Jones May-December fireplace flirting.
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Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.
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The flower stems on the American varieties are much longer than those of European tobaccos and also larger.
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Sometimes dumb-bells, compact sheaves of fine needles, and irregular rhizome forms are seen (Fig. 40).
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Black Sheep retreated to the nursery and read "Cometh up as a Flower" with deep and uncomprehending interest.
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Her face was mild and pale; but it was the transparent hue of the virgin flower of spring, clad in her veiling leaves.
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Cultural definitions for Mayflower compact

Mayflower Compact

An agreement reached by the Pilgrims on the ship the Mayflower in 1620, just before they landed at Plymouth Rock. The Mayflower Compact bound them to live in a civil society according to their own laws. It remained the fundamental law of their colony of Plymouth until the colony was absorbed into Massachusetts in the late seventeenth century.

notes for Mayflower Compact

The Mayflower Compact was the first written constitution in North America.