Word Meanings - MONSIGNORE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

My lord; -- an ecclesiastical dignity bestowed by the pope, entitling the bearer to social and domestic rank at the papal court.

Related words: (words related to MONSIGNORE)

• SOCIALIST; SOCIALISTIC
  Pertaining to, or of the nature of, socialism.
• ECCLESIASTICALLY
  In an ecclesiastical manner; according ecclesiastical rules.
• SOCIALIZE
  1. To render social. 2. To subject to, or regulate by, socialism.
• PAPALITY
  The papacy. Ld. Berners. Milton.
• DOMESTICATE
  1. To make domestic; to habituate to home life; as, to domesticate one's self. 2. To cause to be, as it were, of one's family or country; as, to domesticate a foreign custom or word. 3. To tame or reclaim from a wild state; as, to domesticate wild
• SOCIALITY
  The quality of being social; socialness.
• COURTESAN
  A woman who prostitutes herself for hire; a prostitute; a harlot. Lasciviously decked like a courtesan. Sir H. Wotton. (more info) courtier, It. cortigiano; or directly fr. It. cortigiana, or Sp.
• COURT TENNIS
  See TENNIS
• COURT-CUPBOARD
  A movable sideboard or buffet, on which plate and other articles of luxury were displayed on special ocasions. A way with the joint stools, remove the court-cupboard, look to the plate. Shak.
• COURTEPY
  A short coat of coarse cloth. Full threadbare was his overeste courtepy. Chaucer.
• COURTBRED
  Bred, or educated, at court; polished; courtly.
• SOCIAL
  Naturally growing in groups or masses; -- said of many individual plants of the same species. Living in communities consisting of males, females, and neuters, as do ants and most bees. Forming compound groups or colonies by budding from
• COURTESANSHIP
  Harlotry.
• COURT-MARTIAL
  A court consisting of military or naval officers, for the trial of one belonging to the army or navy, or of offenses against military or naval law.
• COURTLIKE
  After the manner of a court; elegant; polite; courtly.
• COURTEOUSNESS
  The quality of being courteous; politeness; courtesy.
• SOCIALLY
  In a social manner; sociably.
• DOMESTICATION
  The act of domesticating, or accustoming to home; the action of taming wild animals.
• 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.
• COURTELLE
  a wool-like fabric.
• WATER-BEARER
  The constellation Aquarius.
• SHIELD-BEARER
  Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, carries a shield.
• STATE SOCIALISM
  A form of socialism, esp. advocated in Germany, which, while retaining the right of private property and the institution of the family and other features of the present form of the state, would intervene by various measures intended to
• PALLBEARER
  One of those who attend the coffin at a funeral; -- so called from the pall being formerly carried by them.
• ANTIPAPAL
  Opposed to the pope or to popery. Milton.
• UNDERBEARER
  One who supports or sustains; especially, at a funeral, one of those who bear the copse, as distinguished from a bearer, or pallbearer, who helps to hold up the pall.
• OUTCOURT
  An outer or exterior court. The skirts and outcourts of heaven. South.
• TALEBEARER
  One who officiously tells tales; one who impertinently or maliciously communicates intelligence, scandal, etc., and makes mischief. Spies and talebearers, encouraged by her father, did their best to inflame her resentment. Macaulay.
• DISSOCIAL
  Unfriendly to society; contracted; selfish; as, dissocial feelings.