(a.) Sovereign; independent; having authority or right to allegiance; as, a liege lord.
(a.) Serving an independent sovereign or master; bound by a feudal tenure; obliged to be faithful and loyal to a superior, as a vassal to his lord; faithful; loyal; as, a liege man; a liege subject.
(a.) Full; perfect; complete; pure.
(n.) A free and independent person; specif., a lord paramount; a sovereign.
(n.) The subject of a sovereign or lord; a liegeman.
Example Sentences:
(1) This study had for objective to detect the psychological morbidity of 176 non-consulting primiparas in the region of Liege using both the PSE and a sociological questionnaire.
(2) From January 1976 to June 1984, 308 necropsies were performed on neonates and fetuses of various gestational age, mainly coming from hospitals of the province of Liege.
(3) Radio 2 listeners recently voted Liege and Lief the most influential folk album ever.
(4) So Thursday night's "people's festival" in Ghent, a large street party in honour of eight government-free months, with its spoof world championship ceremony, was accompanied by stunts in Brussels and Antwerp, Leuven and Liege in what turned into a Red Nose day aimed at shaming a cynical political elite.
(5) Its designer, Kenjiro Sano, asked that his logo be withdrawn, weeks after a Belgian designer, Olivier Debie, accused him of drawing heavily on own motif for the Theatre de Liege .
(6) Osborne: We haven't got a legacy to stand on … Lansley: I am happy to announce, my liege, that the NHS is now officially a joke … Cameron: Brilliant, Adrian.
(7) Oldham is better known, of course, as that bearded liege lord of modern folk, Bonnie Prince Billy , and when Olsen joined his touring band in 2010 she was at the very other end of the musicians' ladder, an aspirant on the Chicago indie scene who'd not yet done a paid gig.
(8) When Porto signed Mangala from Standard Liege in August 2011, they bought 90% of his economic rights, not 100%.
(9) Updated at 4.44pm GMT 4.43pm GMT "I'm very happy to be sitting next to Leo as well..." Leonardo chuckles and says "Thank you my liege."
(10) After taking a second look at a treatment that was common in 1933 for victims of cluster headaches, a doctor from Lieges, Belgium, is now training anesthesiologists in the technique of alcoholization of the sphenopalatine ganglion.
(11) He bought and sold stakes in Standard Liege, Charleroi and Nice before deciding he wanted to own a British club, picking up Portsmouth for £5m in 1998.
(12) Although closely related (r = 0.68), the use of these two parameters in a single scale, the Glasgow-Liege scale, improves the precision of prognosis, especially for those head trauma patients with initial and complete loss of consciousness.
(13) But the Duke has for six decades honoured his own vow on that day to be "your liege man of life and limb, and of earthly worship", and he wasn't going to let her down now.
(15) The 29-year-old DR Congo international, four times a Belgian league champion across his spells with Standard Liege and Anderlecht, will move to Carrow Road pending the approval of a work permit.
(16) The complete pedigree indicates that Hb D-Los Angeles was already present in Liege province in the 18th century.
(17) Fellaini cost around €19m (£16m at the present rate) with add-ons when Moyes bought the Belgian midfielder to Everton from Standard Liege in 2008.
(18) The author complemented the AMDP-4 scale by some somatic items from the Liege psychiatric record, the code of Devroye, Pinchard and Timsit.
(19) The phenotypes of C3 and of Tf were determined in 818 and 576, respectively, unrelated individuals living in Liege.
(20) Eighty nine patients with hypoxic chronic obstructive airways disease (COAD) were enrolled into the 1 year Vectarion International Multicentre Study-VIMS in 4 centres, Sheffield (UK), and Antwerp, Liege and Namur (Belgium).
Lige
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) To lie; to tell lies.
Example Sentences:
(1) Here, we report the isolation and characterization of the beta-etherase gene, which contains an open reading frame of 843 bp and which we call ligE.
(2) Inherited as an autosomal recessive trait the syndrome is characterized by a medium degree generalized osteosclerosis, open craniial sutures and fontanels until adult lige, hypoplastic mandibles with deficiency of the angle, prominence of the forehead and occiput, hypoplasia of the paranasal sinuses, commonly observed dysproportionate dwarfism, acro-osteolysis and increased bone fragility.
(3) The long tissue half-lige of actinomycin D suggeststhat an intermittenr schedule of administration would be the most effective.
(4) In another reported incident, two men shoved an 18-year-old woman wearing a hooded sweatshirt, commented on religion and asked her: “Do you know you’re in America?” In the traditionally liberal city of Ann Arbor, two alleged incidents of ethnic intimidation and religious bias in a week is unusual, said Detective Lt Matthew Lige of the Ann Arbor police department.