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
• NONTENURE
  A plea of a defendant that he did not hold the land, as affirmed.
• CHIEF BARON
  The presiding judge of the court of exchequer.
• 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