"Optimates" is a word in ENGLISH
The nobility or aristocracy of ancient Rome, as
opposed to the populares.
still other winters average their rain months into a long, cold season of relentless sog and little color. At such times, looking out through the spattered glass, I feel, deep in some spongy, unignorable organ, that we will have floods, and damage, and losses; we will have gray till the cows come home, and there will be no more cows--they'll all just rot, drown, or simply wash away. We will have rain until the very hills dissolve. And when the dirty cotton swaddling of fog finally falls away, we will all be desperate for vital signs.
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One of the Mohammedan nobility of Afghanistan and Scinde.
Read the complete definitionIn English law. A device depicted on the (now imagi-nary) shield of one of the nobility, of which gentry is …
Read the complete definitionA title or degree of nobility; originally, the possessor of a fief, who had feudal tenants under him; in modern …
Read the complete definitionA lord or nobleman; the most general title of nobility in England. 1 Bl. Comm. 398. 399
Read the complete definitionIn English lnw. The col-lective body of the barons, or of the nobility at large. Spelman
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Read the complete definitionThe common people; those classes and conditions of people who are below the rank of nobility; the commons.
Read the complete definitionOne of the common people; one having no rank of nobility.
Read the complete definitionThe mass of the people, as distinguished from the titled classes or nobility; the commonalty; the common people.
Read the complete definition1. The class of subjects in Great Britain exclusive of the royal family and the nobility. They are represented in …
Read the complete definitionThe legislative assembly, composed of nobility, clergy, and representatives of cities, which in Spain and in Portugal answers, in some …
Read the complete definitionThe wife of an earl in the British peerage, or of a count in the Continental nobility; also, a lady …
Read the complete definitionIn legislation. A legislative assembly. Parliament is called ln the old books a court of the king, nobility, and com-mons …
Read the complete definitionIn England, one of the highest order of nobility after princes and princesses of the royal blood and the four …
Read the complete definitionA title of nobility, formerly the highest in England, now the third, ranking between a marquis and a viscount, and …
Read the complete definitionTo raise to the rank of nobility; as, to ennoble a commoner.
Read the complete definitionThe act of making noble, or of exalting, dignifying, or advancing to nobility.
Read the complete definitionThe great classes or orders of a community or state (as the clergy, the nobility, and the commonalty of England) …
Read the complete definitionThe lowest title of nobility in Portugal, corresponding to that of Hidalgo in Spain.
Read the complete definitionMagnanimity; generosity; liberality; frankness; nobility.
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