(v. t.) To make noble; to elevate in degree, qualities, or excellence; to dignify.
(v. t.) To raise to the rank of nobility; as, to ennoble a commoner.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lord Foster, the architect, who was ennobled in 1999, and Lord Bagri, the Indian metal magnate, resigned last night.
(2) They include the brothers David and Martin Ennals: the former became social services secretary in Callaghan’s 1976 Labour government and was later ennobled, the latter became general secretary of the National Council of Civil Liberties, a founder member of the Anti-Apartheid Movement and secretary general of Amnesty International.
(3) The unlikely ennoblement of this university lecturer, 49, passed largely unnoticed in the press.
(4) Three long-serving party grandees, Sir Alan Beith, Sir Menzies Campbell and Sir Malcolm Bruce, will also be also ennobled.
(5) Or, if that is too complicated, they can simply depict the ways in which human beings endure conflict, or are ennobled by it.
(6) Just marvel at the visceral and psychologically revealing language that Sullivan, after ennobling western violence, uses for the London attack [his emphasis]: "terrorism in its most animal-like form, created and sustained entirely by religious fanaticism which would find any excuse to murder, destroy and oppress Muslims and non-Muslims in the name of God."
(7) Jones, who went on to be ennobled and serve as a UK trade minister, continued to defend the record of Cryne as late as July 2006, when a string of profits warnings prompted concerns about iSoft's aggressive accounting to resurface.
(8) Now ennobled and a schools minister, he had earlier that day met two of the four Barrow borough councillors recently elected on the 'Our Schools Are Not For Sale' ticket.
(9) Yesterday, the MPs who will discuss the matter at their weekly meeting on Wednesday, were saying that the only thing which could rescue Mr Thorpe would be a spectacular performance at the forthcoming by-elections at Carshalton, where the sitting Tory, Robert Carr, has been ennobled, or the Wirral, where the Speaker, Selwyn Lloyd, is retiring.
(10) Stewart Wood, an academic who is Miliband's righthand man and who was ennobled on Friday, the day of the interview, makes the tea in cups that Miliband points out aren't dirty, but instead have been painted by his two-year old.
(11) On screen, after all, she has come to ennoble the dabblers.
(12) For Rabbi Julia Neuberger, today's ennoblement to Liberal Democrat peer is the latest in a list of titles, including a DBE in the New Year's honours, 11 honourary doctorates and an honourary fellowship of Mansfield College, Oxford.
(13) A previous attempt to ennoble the businessman failed when he was questioned as part of the cash-for-peerages scandal.
(14) She said: “The Department of Justice is the only department named for an ideal, and this is appropriate because our work … is both ennobling and profoundly challenging.” On Saturday, colleagues and peers of Lynch told the Guardian of her “low-key, very measured” approach and said she was “very smart, she knows how to surround herself with smart people”.
(15) He served a full five-year term before his ennoblement in 2005.
(16) Digby Jones, the former CBI chief, was ennobled and given the post of trade minister.
(17) In this particular instance, however, Marfan's syndrome bequeathed to posterity a legacy that will ennoble the human spirit for innumerable generations yet to come.
(18) The most eye-catching ennoblement, however, was that of the Oscar-winning screenwriter Julian Fellowes , creator of ITV1's hit period drama Downton Abbey.
(19) Since being ennobled, Ashcroft has attended the Lords for an average of 36 days each year, has asked few questions and has missed the overwhelming majority of votes.
(20) Alistair Cooke, a veteran of the Conservative research department, and Nick True, a longstanding adviser to Lord Strathclyde, the leader of the Lords, are also ennobled.
Vulgarize
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) To make vulgar, or common.
Example Sentences:
(1) Water stress inhibits the gibberellic acid (GA(3))-induced synthesis of alpha-amylase in aleurone layers of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.).
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Britain needs to talk about the R-word: racism It is also a wakeup call to those who recognise racism only when it is played out like a scene from Django Unchained , those who think that racism has to be some vulgar incident perpetrated only by the backward, ignorant and poorly educated, those who believe that racism has to be an act, rather than a complicated and intangible framework that sets up obstacles.
(3) Chinese hamster cells and normal human skin fibroblasts were treated with extracts from Salmonella typhimurium or Hordeum vulgare (barley) containing a crude mutagenic metabolite, as well as with synthetically produced azidoalanine.
(4) The model agrees with those proposed for TMV "vulgare" RNA and confirms their general validity for the tobamoviruses.
(5) Perhaps the recession will finally put the kibosh on all this vulgar Jimmy Choo-ing and Vera Wang-ing.
(6) In the present study we compare isoenzymes 1 and 2 from Sinapis alba and Hordeum vulgare on the basis of antigenic cross-reactivity, tryptic peptides, and amino acid composition.
(7) Three lectins, from Canavalia ensiformis (concanavalin), Triticum vulgare (wheat germ A), and Phytolacca americana (pokeweed [PWM]), were found to react with fungal pathogens commonly encountered in nosocomial infections.
(8) 'He's vulgar – but honest': Filipinos on Duterte's first 100 days in office Read more The inquiry is being led by senator Leila de Lima, a staunch critic of Duterte’s anti-drug campaign that has left more than 3,000 suspected drug users and dealers dead since he assumed the presidency in June .
(9) for which Taylor won her second Oscar, playing the bitter, 52-year-old, vulgar wife of a self-loathing professor (Burton).
(10) The chaddi [underwear] symbolises vulgarity, something Muthalik's men indulged in when they molested the girls in Mangalore, and pink adds shock value.
(11) Ideally they should also possess the sort of clipped tones that make vulgarities sound like Virgil and the sort of wardrobe that dresses up deviousness as a gentleman's sport.
(12) In his letter to the BBC, the ambassador wrote: "The presenters of the programme resorted to outrageous, vulgar and inexcusable insults to stir bigoted feelings against the Mexican people, their culture as well as their official representative in the United Kingdom.
(13) Biochemical analyses of the dorsal integument of the isopod, Armadillidium vulgare, revealed that sepiapterin, biopterin, pterin, isoxanthopterin and uric acid accumulated in the yellow-colored chromatophores which are distinguishable from ommochrome chromatophores.
(14) The prank involved a man saying a vulgar phrase on air while Shauna Hunt, a reporter with Toronto-based television news channel CityNews, interviewed fans after a soccer match.
(15) With the exception of Verrucae vulgares and plantares the epidemiology of these types of warts displays significantly different patterns.
(16) The geranyl and linalyl precursors were shown to be mutually competitive substrates (inhibitors) of the relevant cyclization enzymes isolated from Salvia officinalis (sage) and Tanacetum vulgare (tansy) by the mixed substrate analysis method, demonstrating that isomerization and cyclization take place at the same active site.
(17) It’s like that sick, sinking feeling you get when you’re walking down the street minding your own business and some guy yells out vulgar words about your body.
(18) You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books.
(19) Across Manhattan, authors, editors and agents alike work on computer, and make full use of email as a means of avoiding embarrassing and vulgar conversations.
(20) Too much money is involved, too much sex, too many vulgarly inflated egos, too much that is peripheral to the game.