Word Meanings - ARCHDUCHESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The consort of an archduke; also, a princess of the imperial family of Austria. See Archduke.

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• ARCHDUKE
  A prince of the imperial family of Austria. Note: Formerly this title was assumed by the rulers of Lorraine, Brabant, Austria, etc. It is now appropriated to the descendants of the imperial family of Austria through the make line, all such male
• CONSORTSHIP
  The condition of a consort; fellowship; partnership. Hammond.
• FAMILY
  A groupe of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoölogy
• CONSORTABLE
  Suitable for association or companionship. Sir H. Wotton.
• IMPERIALLY
  In an imperial manner.
• PRINCESSE
  A term applied to a lady's long, close-fitting dress made with waist and skirt in one.
• IMPERIAL
  L. imperialis, fr. imperium command, sovereignty, empire. See 1. Of or pertaining to an empire, or to an emperor; as, an imperial government; imperial authority or edict. The last That wore the imperial diadem of Rome. Shak. 2. Belonging to, or
• CONSORT
  A ship keeping company with another. 3. Concurrence; conjunction; combination; association; union. "By Heaven's consort." Fuller. "Working in consort." Hare. Take it singly, and is carries an air of levity; but, in consort with the rest,
• PRINCESS
  1. A female prince; a woman having sovereign power, or the rank of a prince. Dryden. So excellent a princess as the present queen. Swift. 2. The daughter of a sovereign; a female member of a royal family. Shak. 3. The consort of a prince; as, the
• IMPERIALITY
  1. Imperial power. 2. An imperial right or privilegs. See Royalty. The late empress having, by ukases of grace, relinquished her imperialities on the private mines, viz., the tenths of the copper, iron, silver and gold. W. Tooke.
• AUSTRIAN
  Of or pertaining to Austria, or to its inhabitants. -- n.
• IMPERIALISM
  The power or character of an emperor; imperial authority; the spirit of empire. Roman imperialism had divided the world. C. H. Pearson.
• ARCHDUKEDOM
  An archduchy.
• IMPERIALIZE
  To invest with imperial authority, character, or style; to bring to the form of an empire. Fuller.
• IMPERIALIST
  One who serves an emperor; one who favors imperialism.
• CONSORTION
  Fellowship; association; companionship. Sir T. Browne.
• PRINCESSLIKE
  Like a princess.
• SUBFAMILY
  One of the subdivisions, of more importance than genus, into which certain families are divided.
• CROWN-IMPERIAL
  A spring-blooming plant of the Lily family, having at the top of the stalk a cluster of pendent bell- shaped flowers surmounted with a tuft of green leaves.
• SUPERFAMILY
  A group intermediate between a family and a suborder.