Word Meanings - DOMINUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Master; sir; -- a title of respect formerly applied to a knight or a clergyman, and sometimes to the lord of a manor. Cowell.

Related words: (words related to DOMINUS)

• KNIGHTLESS
  Unbecoming a knight. "Knightless guile." Spenser.
• TITLELESS
  Not having a title or name; without legitimate title. "A titleless tyrant." Chaucer.
• APPLICABLE
  Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv.
• TITLED
  Having or bearing a title.
• APPLICATIVE
  Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv.
• TITLER
  A large truncated cone of refined sugar.
• MASTERSHIP
  1. The state or office of a master. 2. Mastery; dominion; superior skill; superiority. Where noble youths for mastership should strive. Driden. 3. Chief work; masterpiece. Dryden. 4. An ironical title of respect. How now, seignior Launce ! what
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• MASTEROUS
  Masterly. Milton.
• APPLICANCY
  The quality or state of being applicable.
• SOMETIMES
  1. Formerly; sometime. That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march. Shak. 2. At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally. It is good that we sometimes be contradicted. Jer. Taylor. Sometimes . . .
• APPLICABILITY
  The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied.
• KNIGHT BANNERET
  A knight who carried a banner, who possessed fiefs to a greater amount than the knight bachelor, and who was obliged to serve in war with a greater number of attendants. The dignity was sometimes conferred by the sovereign in person on the field
• RESPECTER
  One who respects. A respecter of persons, one who regards or judges with partiality. Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons. Acts x.
• APPLICATORILY
  By way of application.
• KNIGHT BACHELOR
  A knight of the most ancient, but lowest, order of English knights, and not a member of any order of chivalry. See Bachelor, 4.
• CLERGYMAN
  An ordained minister; a man regularly authorized to peach the gospel, and administer its ordinances; in England usually restricted to a minister of the Established Church.
• MASTERFULLY
  In a masterful manner; imperiously. A lawless and rebellious man who held lands masterfully and in high contempt of the royal authority. Macaulay.
• TITLE-PAGE
  The page of a book which contains it title. The world's all title-page; there's no contents. Young.
• MASTERSINGER
  One of a class of poets which flourished in Nuremberg and some other cities of Germany in the 15th and 16th centuries. They bound themselves to observe certain arbitrary laws of rhythm.
• CREMASTERIC
  Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric artery.
• UNKNIGHT
  To deprive of knighthood. Fuller.
• BAGGAGE MASTER
  One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel.
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.
• UNAPPLIABLE
  Inapplicable. Milton.
• REAPPLICATION
  The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
• TOASTMASTER
  A person who presides at a public dinner or banquet, and announces the toasts.
• TASKMASTER
  One who imposes a task, or burdens another with labor; one whose duty is to assign tasks; an overseer. Ex. i. 11. All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Taskmaster's eye. Milton.
• BANDMASTER
  The conductor of a musical band.