Word Meanings - BARONIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Pertaining to a baron or a barony. "Baronial tenure." Hallam.
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- BARONET
A dignity or degree of honor next below a baron and above a knight, having precedency of all orders of knights except those of the Garter. It is the lowest degree of honor that is hereditary. The baronets are commoners. Note: The order was founded - BARONIAL
Pertaining to a baron or a barony. "Baronial tenure." Hallam. - BARONAGE
1. The whole body of barons or peers. The baronage of the kingdom. Bp. Burnet. 2. The dignity or rank of a baron. 3. The land which gives title to a baron. - BARONG
A kind of cutting weapon with a thick back and thin razorlike edge, used by the Moros of the Philippine Islands. - BARON
A husband; as, baron and feme, husband and wife. Cowell. Baron of beef, two sirloins not cut asunder at the backbone. -- Barons of the Cinque Ports, formerly members of the House of Commons, elected by the seven Cinque Ports, two for each port. - BARONETAGE
1. State or rank of a baronet. 2. The collective body of baronets. - PERTAIN
stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant - BARONETCY
The rank or patent of a baronet. - BARONESS
A baron's wife; also, a lady who holds the baronial title in her own right; as, the Baroness Burdett-Coutts. - BARONY
1. The fee or domain of a baron; the lordship, dignity, or rank of a baron. 2. In Ireland, a territorial division, corresponding nearly to the English hundred, and supposed to have been originally the district of a native chief. There are 252 of - TENURE
The manner of holding lands and tenements of a superior. Note: Tenure is inseparable from the idea of property in land, according to the theory of the English law; and this idea of tenure pervades, to a considerable extent, the law of real property - COVERT BARON
Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill. - COURT-BARON
An inferior court of civil jurisdiction, attached to a manor, and held by the steward; a baron's court; -- now fallen into disuse. - KNIGHT BARONET
See BARONET - CHIEF BARON
The presiding judge of the court of exchequer. - NONTENURE
A plea of a defendant that he did not hold the land, as affirmed. - APPERTAIN
To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach