- Belgian port - Feudal lord - Feudal superior - For example, lie about overlord - Lie about, for example, overlord - Lie about, for example, vassal - Lord
- Papal court - One of the thirty parts into which the Roman people were
divided by Romulus. - The place of assembly of one of these divisions. - The place where the meetings of the senate were held; the
senate house. - The court of a sovereign or of a feudal lord; also; his
residence or his household. - Any court of justice. - The Roman See in its temporal aspects, including all the
machinery of administration; -- called also curia Romana.
- Honour or respect shown publicly - Respect - Respect paid - Show of respect - Silver in home inspired reverence - What’s paid to keep silver in the home - A symbolical acknowledgment made by a feudal tenant to, and
in the presence of, his lord, on receiving investiture of fee, or
coming to it by succession, that he was his man, or vassal; profession
of fealty to a sovereign.
- A board or court of justice formerly held in the
counting house of the British sovereign's household, composed of the
lord steward and his officers, and having cognizance of matters of
justice in the household, with power to correct offenders and keep the
peace within the verge of the palace, which extends two hundred yards
beyond the gates.
- Army rank - NCO rank - Non-commissioned officer - See Grant become a soldier - Formerly, in England, an officer nearly answering to the
more modern bailiff of the hundred; also, an officer whose duty was to
attend on the king, and on the lord high steward in court, to arrest
traitors and other offenders. He is now called sergeant-at-arms, and
two of these officers, by allowance of the sovereign, attend on the
houses of Parliament (one for each house) to execute their commands,
and another attends the Court Chancery. - In a company, battery, or troop, a noncommissioned
officer next in rank above a corporal, whose duty is to instruct
recruits in discipline, to form the ranks, etc. - A lawyer of the highest rank, answering to the doctor of
the civil law; -- called also serjeant at law.