(n.) A hump-backed person; -- so called sportively.
(n.) One who has power and authority; a master; a ruler; a governor; a prince; a proprietor, as of a manor.
(n.) A titled nobleman., whether a peer of the realm or not; a bishop, as a member of the House of Lords; by courtesy; the son of a duke or marquis, or the eldest son of an earl; in a restricted sense, a boron, as opposed to noblemen of higher rank.
(n.) A title bestowed on the persons above named; and also, for honor, on certain official persons; as, lord advocate, lord chamberlain, lord chancellor, lord chief justice, etc.
(n.) A husband.
(n.) One of whom a fee or estate is held; the male owner of feudal land; as, the lord of the soil; the lord of the manor.
(n.) The Supreme Being; Jehovah.
(n.) The Savior; Jesus Christ.
(v. t.) To invest with the dignity, power, and privileges of a lord.
(v. t.) To rule or preside over as a lord.
(v. i.) To play the lord; to domineer; to rule with arbitrary or despotic sway; -- sometimes with over; and sometimes with it in the manner of a transitive verb.
Example Sentences:
(1) The criticism over the downgrading of the leader of the Lords was led by Lord Forsyth of Drumlean, a former Scotland secretary, who is a respected figure on the right.
(2) Sewel is also recorded complaining about the level of appearance allowances at the House of Lords .
(3) Biomass and crops for animals are as damaging as [burning] fossil fuels.” The recommendation follows advice last year that a vegetarian diet was better for the planet from Lord Nicholas Stern , former adviser to the Labour government on the economics of climate change.
(4) In his notorious 1835 Minute on Education , Lord Macaulay articulated the classic reason for teaching English, but only to a small minority of Indians: “We must do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indians in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.” The language was taught to a few to serve as intermediaries between the rulers and the ruled.
(5) Wharton feared that if his bill had not cleared the Commons on this occasion, it would have failed as there are only three sitting Fridays in the Commons next year when the legislation could be heard again should peers in the House of Lords successfully pass amendments.
(6) "At the moment there are about 1,600 criminal justice firms, and they all have a contract with the lord chancellor.
(7) He also challenged Lord Mandelson's claim this morning that a controversial vote on Royal Mail would have to be postponed due to lack of parliamentary time.
(8) The Lords will vote on three key amendments: • To exclude child benefit from the cap calculation (this would roughly halve the number of households affected).
(9) Cobra collapsed into administration in 2009 after which Lord Bilimoria was criticised for using a “pre-pack” deal to buy back a stake in the firm.
(10) Buckingham Palace was drawn into the dispute when it was revealed that Pownall had sought advice from the Lord Chamberlain, a key officer in the royal household, on the potential misuse of the portcullis emblem due to it being the property of the Queen.
(11) We have already had the failure of House of Lords reform, the failure to change constituencies and the imbalance of MPs between England and the devolved assemblies.
(12) Publishing the government's low-carbon transport strategy, transport secretary Lord Adonis said the measures would save an additional 85m tonnes of CO2 over the period 2018-22, adding that the government would shortly announce plans for further electrification of the rail network.
(13) At 7.40am Lord Feldman, the Conservative party chairman, knocked on the front door of No 10.
(14) After the formal PIRC inquiry was triggered by the lord advocate, Frank Mulholland, Bayoh’s family said police gave them five different accounts of what had happened before eventually being told late on Sunday afternoon how he died.
(15) Lord Thomson of Monifieth , the now deceased chairman of the political honours scrutiny committee, was a former Labour minister but then sat in the Lords as a Liberal Democrat peer.
(16) One big question is whether Lord Adonis’s NIC will feel emboldened enough to make proposals that conflict with government policy.
(17) Lord Green of Hurstpierpoint, the trade minister, is taking a parallel trade delegation whose members will meet the prime minister in Saudi and the UAE.
(18) Steve Bell on Jeremy Corbyn not singing the national anthem – cartoon Read more Admiral Lord West, former Labour security minister, said the decision not to sing the anthem was extraordinary.
(19) An intimate account of her last hours was given on Monday by Lady (Carla) Powell, the Italian wife of Thatcher's former diplomatic adviser Lord Powell, who had visited her often in her declining years, and whose house outside Rome the former prime minister had visited on several occasions.
(20) Our later measures – parliament's power to declare peace and war, MPs to be subject to a right to recall, an end to the royal prerogative, an elected Lords – were about a 21st-century democracy, with citizenship to be founded on a new bill of rights and responsibilities and, in time, a written constitution.
Marquis
Definition:
(n.) A nobleman in England, France, and Germany, of a rank next below that of duke. Originally, the marquis was an officer whose duty was to guard the marches or frontiers of the kingdom. The office has ceased, and the name is now a mere title conferred by patent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: MCT via Getty Images With Marquis in the lead, striding forward holding a ski stick, we marched up the hill.
(2) The Marquis de Sade and Casanova used it to avoid venereal diseases (VDs).
(3) But he was far from comic as the splenetic Marquis of Queensberry, hounding Oscar Wilde to prison over his son's liaison with the homosexual playwright, in The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960).
(4) Marquis, a philosopher, employs a comparison of harms analysis and concludes that the rights of the postnatal child not to risk permanent, substantial, preventable injury overrides the pregnant woman's right not to be confined involuntarily.
(5) Water is about to reach houses in the coastal villages of Soubise and Marquis.
(6) Marquis believes the copper workings to be central to understanding the ruins.
(7) Shoing off the new co-op gameplay it had two players running through the streets of paris, taking out soldiers, before starting a riot that ends in a marquis being beheaded.
(8) The levels of free carnitine were measured through the enzyme-colorimetry method of Marquis and Fritz.
(9) Then at the Angel Ball, a glittering fundraiser for G&P held at the New York Marriott Marquis hotel on 30 November, Rich for the first time bought a table from Denise.
(10) There is going to be great competition and I’m really looking forward to it.” Elsewhere, another British gold medal winner on 2012’s Super Saturday, and also the European and Commonwealth champion, Greg Rutherford, hopes to recapture his best long jump form against a field that includes Marquis Dendy, who jumped a wind-assisted 8.68m this year, plus the improving Briton Dan Bramble.
(11) Bamiyan seems emblematic of the way international aid has treated Afghanistan,” says Philippe Marquis, former head of the French Archaeological Delegation in Afghanistan (Dafa).
(12) Presented at the ongoing Black Hat Asia 2014 conference in Singapore, Shane Huntley and Morgan Marquis-Boire's research shows that journalists are "massively over-represented" among the targets of state-sponsored hackers.
(13) This former residence of politician, polymath and billionaire hoarder the 17th Marquis of Cerralbo, has resplendent rooms jammed with ancient artefacts, priceless masters, oriental curios and an armoury worthy of a warlord.
(14) That was straight out of the 1750 classic A Character in King Charles the Second, by George Savile, the Marquis of Halifax.
(15) But Marquis could see order where I could not, and instantly identified the different sites and speculated on what they were once used for.
(16) Arguing from the position that prerandomization in clinical trials must be either unsuccessful or unethical, Marquis analyzes prerandomized single-arm consent and multiple-arm consent designs and compares them to each other and to conventional randomized designs.
(17) Schaffner introduces four articles on clinical trials (by F. Gifford, J.B. Kadane, L. Kopelman, and D. Marquis) by providing an historical and methodological context within which to interpret them.
(18) Plasma L-carnitine concentrations have been measured by a spectrophotometrical method according to Marquis and Fritz's technique and subsequently modified by Pearson and Seccombe.
(19) So does "sadism", for that matter, but the Marquis de Sade had been dead for 72 years.
(20) The 1995 season saw the fiscally challenged club unable to hold on to core players such as Walker, Wetteland, Marquis Grissom and Ken Hill – frustrated fans gave up on the organisation with many never going back.