of+great+dignity

  • 91Peter Vischer —     Peter Vischer     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Peter Vischer     Sculptor and metal founder, b. at Nuremberg about 1460; d. in 1529. His father Hermann, who had immigrated to Nuremberg, made a baptismal font at Wittenberg, and memorial brasses… …

    Catholic encyclopedia

  • 92Dago dazzler — A dago dazzler is an elaborately decorated document used to identify its bearer, usually an academic, as someone with an official association with an institution, usually a university or college, with the purpose of impressing low level… …

    Wikipedia

  • 93Ecclesiastes 10 — 1 Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour: so doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honour. 2 A wise man s heart is at his right hand; but a fool s heart at his left. 3 Yea also, when …

    The King James version of the Bible

  • 94TALMA, FRANÇOIS JOSEPH —    a famous French tragedian, born in Paris, where in 1787 he made his début; from the first his great gifts were apparent, and during the Revolution he was the foremost actor at the Théâtre de la République, and subsequently enjoyed the favour… …

    The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

  • 95Gregorian Music —    The Gregorian tones are certain chants of peculiar beauty and solemnity handed down to us from remote antiquity. They are said to have been set forth in their present form by Gregory the Great in the Sixth Century, from whom they are named.… …

    American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  • 96grand — a. 1. Stately, lordly, princely, august, majestic, exalted, elevated, dignified, eminent, illustrious, great, high in power, of great dignity. 2. Magnificent, splendid, superb, glorious, noble, sublime, lofty. 3. Principal, chief, superior, main …

    New dictionary of synonyms

  • 97comitatus — /komateytas/ In old English law, a county or shire; the body of a county. The territorial jurisdiction of a comes, i.e., count or earl. 1 Bl.Comm. 116. An earldom. The county court, a court of great antiquity and of great dignity in early times.… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 98comitatus — /komateytas/ In old English law, a county or shire; the body of a county. The territorial jurisdiction of a comes, i.e., count or earl. 1 Bl.Comm. 116. An earldom. The county court, a court of great antiquity and of great dignity in early times.… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 99coroner — A judicial and ministerial officer of great importance in the middle ages and an office of great dignity under the earlier common law, but whose functions have gradually been diminished in importance by legislation, until today, where the office… …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 100grande dame — [gränd däm] n. [Fr, great lady] a woman, esp. an older one, of great dignity or prestige …

    English World dictionary