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Tenure of lands of the crown by an honorary kind of service not due to any lord, but to the king only. Grand sergeanty, a particular kind of tenure by which the tenant was bound to do some special honorary service to the king in person, as to carry

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Tenure of lands of the crown by an honorary kind of service not due to any lord, but to the king only. Grand sergeanty, a particular kind of tenure by which the tenant was bound to do some special honorary service to the king in person, as to carry his banner, his sword, or the like. Tomlins. Cowell. Blackstone. -- Petit sergeanty. See under Petit.

Related words: (words related to SERGEANTY)

• CROWN SIDE
  See OFFICE
• BOUNDLESS
  Without bounds or confines; illimitable; vast; unlimited. "The boundless sky." Bryant. "The boundless ocean." Dryden. "Boundless rapacity." "Boundless prospect of gain." Macaulay. Syn. -- Unlimited; unconfined; immeasurable; illimitable; infinite.
• CROWNED
  1. Having or wearing a crown; surmounted, invested, or adorned, with a crown, wreath, garland, etc.; honored; rewarded; completed; consummated; perfected. "Crowned with one crest." Shak. "Crowned with conquest." Milton. With surpassing
• GRANDEUR
  The state or quality of being grand; vastness; greatness; splendor; magnificence; stateliness; sublimity; dignity; elevation of thought or expression; nobility of action. Nor doth this grandeur and majestic show Of luxury . . . allure mine eye.
• LANDSTHING
  See BELOW
• PERSONNEL
  The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel.
• PERSONIFICATION
  A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying;
• CROWNER
  A coroner. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, crowns. Beau. & FL. 2. Etym:
• LANDSKIP
  A landscape. Straight my eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landskip round it measures. Milton.
• GRANDEESHIP
  The rank or estate of a grandee; lordship. H. Swinburne.
• GRANDMA; GRANDMAMMA
  A grand mother.
• CROWNLAND
  In Austria-Hungary, one of the provinces, or largest administrative divisions of the monarchy; as, the crownland of Lower Austria.
• GRANDUNCLE
  father's or mother's uncle.
• LANDSMAN
  A sailor on his first voyage. (more info) 1. One who lives on the land; -- opposed to seaman.
• CROWN OFFICE
  The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases. Burrill.
• SERGEANTY
  Tenure of lands of the crown by an honorary kind of service not due to any lord, but to the king only. Grand sergeanty, a particular kind of tenure by which the tenant was bound to do some special honorary service to the king in person, as to carry
• PERSONIZE
  To personify. Milton has personized them. J. Richardson.
• TENANT
  One who holds or possesses lands, or other real estate, by any kind of right, whether in fee simple, in common, in severalty, for life, for years, or at will; also, one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements the title
• GRANDIFIC
  Making great. Bailey.
• PERSONATE
  To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. In fable, hymn, or song so personating Their gods ridiculous. Milton.
• HOME-BOUND
  Kept at home.
• OUTBOUND
  Outward bound. Dryden.
• TER-TENANT
  See TERRE-TENANT
• COWPER'S GLANDS
  Two small glands discharging into the male urethra.
• UNBOUND
  imp. & p. p. of Unbind.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• UNSPECIALIZED
  Not specialized; specifically , not adapted, or set apart, for any particular purpose or function; as, an unspecialized unicellular organism. W. K. Brooks.
• UNBOUNDED
  Having no bound or limit; as, unbounded space; an, unbounded ambition. Addison. -- Un*bound"ed*ly, adv. -- Un*bound"ed*ness, n.