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

I notice he moves at a slightly slower pace than everyone else, and keeps his gestures compact.
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Films are at their best when they can compact a story down to its essentials.
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The next thing that happened, which was really great, was that the tapes became available on compact discs.
Going Public With the Nixon Tapes|Scott Porch|August 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It will swiftly become clear that there is no room in this starry-eyed arrangement for a compact with Washington.
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They picked me up in the District, and I gave them a place to drop me off in the District—around the Mayflower Hotel.
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The president sat in a chair which came over with the pilgrims in their ship, the Mayflower.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various
Sometimes dumb-bells, compact sheaves of fine needles, and irregular rhizome forms are seen (Fig. 40).
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
It is of an exceedingly hard, densely compact nature; from its hardness difficult to work, but susceptible of a very high polish.
Asbestos|Robert H. Jones
A covenant is a mutual voluntary compact between two parties on given terms or conditions.
The Ordinance of Covenanting|John Cunningham
In length there was no alteration, but the design seems more condensed, more compact, yet slightly wider in the opening.
Antonio Stradivari|Horace William Petherick

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.