mesne lord
(mesne lord)
Princeton's WordNet
a feudal lord who was lord to his own tenants on land held from a superior lord
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lord
Webster Dictionary
a title bestowed on the persons above named; and also, for honor, on certain official persons; as, lord advocate, lord chamberlain, lord chancellor, lord chief justice, etc
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high
Webster Dictionary
possessing a characteristic quality in a supreme or superior degree; as, high (i. e., intense) heat; high (i. e., full or quite) noon; high (i. e., rich or spicy) seasoning; high (i. e., complete) pleasure; high (i. e., deep or vivid) color; high (i. e., extensive, thorough) scholarship, etc
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lordly
Webster Dictionary
suitable for a lord; of or pertaining to a lord; resembling a lord; hence, grand; noble; dignified; honorable
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buckingham
(ˈbʌk ɪŋ əm, -ˌhæm)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
George Villiers, 1st Duke of, 1592–1628, English lord high admiral 1617.
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mesne
Webster Dictionary
middle; intervening; as, a mesne lord, that is, a lord who holds land of a superior, but grants a part of it to another person, in which case he is a tenant to the superior, but lord or superior to the second grantee, and hence is called the mesne lord
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suzerain
Webster Dictionary
a superior lord, to whom fealty is due; a feudal lord; a lord paramount
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chancery
(ˈtʃæn sə ri, ˈtʃɑn-)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
Brit. the Lord Chancellor's court, a division of the High Court of Justice.
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serf
(ɜrf)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a person in a condition of feudal servitude, required to render services to a lord, commonly attached to the lord's land and transferred with it from one owner to another.
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lord chancellor
(ɔrd)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
the highest judicial officer of the British crown: ministry law adviser, presiding officer in the House of Lords, etc. Also called Lord High Chancellor.
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monseigneur
Webster Dictionary
my lord; -- a title in France of a person of high birth or rank; as, Monseigneur the Prince, or Monseigneur the Archibishop. It was given, specifically, to the dauphin, before the Revolution of 1789. (Abbrev. Mgr.)
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low-church
Webster Dictionary
not placing a high estimate on ecclesiastical organizations or forms; -- applied especially to Episcopalians, and opposed to high-church. See High Church, under High
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lord
Webster Dictionary
one of whom a fee or estate is held; the male owner of feudal land; as, the lord of the soil; the lord of the manor
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lordship
Webster Dictionary
the state or condition of being a lord; hence (with his or your), a title applied to a lord (except an archbishop or duke, who is called Grace) or a judge (in Great Britain), etc
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lording
Webster Dictionary
a little lord; a lordling; a lord, in contempt or ridicule
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dominical
Webster Dictionary
relating to, or given by, our Lord; as, the dominical (or Lord's) prayer
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seigneur
(ˈyɜr, seɪn-)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a lord, esp. a feudal lord.
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seignior
(ˈsin yər, ˈseɪn-)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a lord, esp. a feudal lord.
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manor
Webster Dictionary
the land belonging to a lord or nobleman, or so much land as a lord or great personage kept in his own hands, for the use and subsistence of his family
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dominical
Webster Dictionary
the Lord's day or Sunday; also, the Lord's prayer
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high-church
Webster Dictionary
of or pertaining to, or favoring, the party called the High Church, or their doctrines or policy. See High Church, under High, a
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relief
Webster Dictionary
a fine or composition which the heir of a deceased tenant paid to the lord for the privilege of taking up the estate, which, on strict feudal principles, had lapsed or fallen to the lord on the death of the tenant
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sergeant
Webster Dictionary
formerly, in England, an officer nearly answering to the more modern bailiff of the hundred; also, an officer whose duty was to attend on the king, and on the lord high steward in court, to arrest traitors and other offenders. He is now called sergeant-at-arms, and two of these officers, by allowance of the sovereign, attend on the houses of Parliament (one for each house) to execute their commands, and another attends the Court Chancery
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heriot
Webster Dictionary
formerly, a payment or tribute of arms or military accouterments, or the best beast, or chattel, due to the lord on the death of a tenant; in modern use, a customary tribute of goods or chattels to the lord of the fee, paid on the decease of a tenant
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maranatha
Webster Dictionary
"Our Lord cometh;" -- an expression used by St. Paul at the conclusion of his first Epistle to the Corinthians (xvi. 22). This word has been used in anathematizing persons for great crimes; as much as to say, "May the Lord come quickly to take vengeance of thy crimes." See Anathema maranatha, under Anathema
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yosemite falls
(ʊˈsɛm ɪ ti)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a series of falls in Yosemite National Park: upper falls, 1430 ft. (436 m) high; middle, 626 ft. (190 m) high; lower, 320 ft. (98 m) high. Total height (including rapids), 2526 ft. (770 m).
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seignior
Webster Dictionary
a lord; the lord of a manor
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feud
Webster Dictionary
a stipendiary estate in land, held of superior, by service; the right which a vassal or tenant had to the lands or other immovable thing of his lord, to use the same and take the profists thereof hereditarily, rendering to his superior such duties and services as belong to military tenure, etc., the property of the soil always remaining in the lord or superior; a fief; a fee
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masterless
(lordless, masterless)
Princeton's WordNet
having no lord or master
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august
(august, grand, lordly)
Princeton's WordNet
of or befitting a lord
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