"Peerage" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH

To cast down or reduce low or lower, as in rank, office, condition in life, or estimation of worthiness; to …

Papal ambassadors of the second rank, who are sent to a country where there is not a nuncio, with a …

Higher in rank or power; as, he appealed to the court above.

An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university. Popularly, a school, or seminary of learning, …

In International law. (1) To receive as an envoy in hls public charac-ter, and give him credit and rank accord-ingly. …

A naval officer of the highest rank; a naval officer of high rank, of which there are different grades. The …

Improvement or progression, physically, mentally, morally, or socially; as, an advance in health, knowledge, or religion; an advance in rank …

To raise to a higher rank; to promote.

To rise in rank, office, or consequence; to be preferred or promoted.

Below in rank; next to in order.

To make great or greater in power, rank, honor, or wealth; -- applied to persons, countries, etc.

The act of aggrandizing, or the state of being aggrandized or exalted in power, rank, honor, or wealth; exaltation; enlargement; …

álan - Rancidity, rankness of taste or smell; to become rancid, rank, strong-scented, turn bad, said of fats, oils, bacon …

A senior or superior; a person of rank or dignity.

The office or rank of an alderman.

A usage among dlploma-tlsts by which the rank nnd places of differ-ent powers, who have the same right and pretensions …

Height of rank or excellence; superiority.

L. Lat A naval commander, under the eastern Roman empire, but not of the highest rank; the origin, ac-cording to …

The act of elevating a mortal to the rank of, and placing him among, \"the gods;\" deification.

A barrister, considered a learner of law till of sixteen years' standing, when he might be called to the rank …