Word Meanings - HERALDIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to heralds or heraldry; as, heraldic blazoning; heraldic language. T. Warton.

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• HERALDRY
  The art or office of a herald; the art, practice, or science of recording genealogies, and blazoning arms or ensigns armorial; also, of marshaling cavalcades, processions, and public ceremonies.
• BLAZONRY
  1. Same as Blazon, 3. The principles of blazonry. Peacham. 2. A coat of arms; an armorial bearing or bearings. The blazonry of Argyle. Lord Dufferin. 3. Artistic representation or display.
• HERALDICALLY
  In an heraldic manner; according to the rules of heraldry.
• 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
• HERALDIC
  Of or pertaining to heralds or heraldry; as, heraldic blazoning; heraldic language. T. Warton.
• BLAZONMENT
  The act or blazoning; blazoning; emblazonment.
• LANGUAGE
  tongue, hence speech, language; akin to E. tongue. See Tongue, cf. 1. Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech; the expression of ideas by the voice; sounds, expressive of thought, articulated by the organs of the
• BLAZON
  arms, OF. shield, from the root of AS. blæse blaze, i. e., luster, 1. A shield. 2. An heraldic shield; a coat of arms, or a bearing on a coat of arms; armorial bearings. Their blazon o'er his towers displayed. Sir W. Scott. 3. The art or act of
• HERALDSHIP
  The office of a herald. Selden.
• LANGUAGELESS
  Lacking or wanting language; speechless; silent. Shak.
• LANGUAGED
  Having a language; skilled in language; -- chiefly used in composition. " Manylanguaged nations." Pope.
• BLAZONER
  One who gives publicity, proclaims, or blazons; esp., one who blazons coats of arms; a herald. Burke.
• OVERLANGUAGED
  Employing too many words; diffuse. Lowell.
• EMBLAZONING
  The act or art of heraldic decoration; delineation of armorial bearings.
• SEA LANGUAGE
  The peculiar language or phraseology of seamen; sailor's cant.
• INDO-DO-CHINESE LANGUAGES
  A family of languages, mostly of the isolating type, although some are agglutinative, spoken in the great area extending from northern India in the west to Formosa in the east and from Central Asia in the north to the Malay Peninsula in the south.
• EMBLAZONRY
  The act or art of an emblazoner; heraldic or ornamental decoration, as pictures or figures on shields, standards, etc.; emblazonment. Thine ancient standard's rich emblazonry. Trench.
• EMBLAZONER
  One who emblazons; also, one who publishes and displays anything with pomp.
• EMBLAZONMENT
  An emblazoning.
• EMBLAZON
  1. To depict or represent; -- said of heraldic bearings. See Blazon. 2. To deck in glaring colors; to set off conspicuously; to display pompously; to decorate. The walls were . . . emblazoned with legends in commemoration of the illustrious pair.