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Organum :: Organum (n.) An organ or instrument; hence, a method by which philosophical or scientific investigation may be conducted; -- a term adopted from the Aristotelian writers by Lord Bacon, as the title (Novum Organon) of part of his treatise on philosophical method..

Seigniorize :: Seigniorize (v. t.) To lord it over.

Token :: Token (n.) A piece of metal given beforehand to each person in the congregation who is permitted to partake of the Lord's Supper.

Epanadiplosis :: Epanadiplosis (n.) A figure by which the same word is used both at the beginning and at the end of a sentence; as, Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice..

Homage :: Homage (n.) 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..

Dominical :: Dominical (a.) Relating to, or given by, our Lord; as, the dominical (or Lord's) prayer..

Curia :: Curia (n.) The court of a sovereign or of a feudal lord; also; his residence or his household.

Lord :: Lord (n.) A husband.

Overlordship :: Overlordship (n.) Lordship or supremacy of a person or a people over others.

Terrier :: Terrier (n.) Formerly, a collection of acknowledgments of the vassals or tenants of a lordship, containing the rents and services they owed to the lord, and the like..

State :: State (n.) Any body of men united by profession, or constituting a community of a particular character; as, the civil and ecclesiastical states, or the lords spiritual and temporal and the commons, in Great Britain. Cf. Estate, n., 6..

Possessory :: Possessory (a.) Of or pertaining to possession, either as a fact or a right; of the nature of possession; as, a possessory interest; a possessory lord..

Chateau :: Chateau (n.) A manor house or residence of the lord of the manor; a gentleman's country seat; also, particularly, a royal residence; as, the chateau of the Louvre; the chateau of the Luxembourg..

Protest :: Protest (v.) A solemn declaration of opinion, commonly a formal objection against some act; especially, a formal and solemn declaration, in writing, of dissent from the proceedings of a legislative body; as, the protest of lords in Parliament..

Taille :: Taille (n.) Any imposition levied by the king, or any other lord, upon his subjects..

Lord :: 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.

Sunday :: Sunday (n.) The first day of the week, -- consecrated among Christians to rest from secular employments, and to religious worship; the Christian Sabbath; the Lord's Day..

Lordly :: Lordly (superl.) Proud; haughty; imperious; insolent.

Thane :: Thane (n.) A dignitary under the Anglo-Saxons and Danes in England. Of these there were two orders, the king's thanes, who attended the kings in their courts and held lands immediately of them, and the ordinary thanes, who were lords of manors and who had particular jurisdiction within their limits. After the Conquest, this title was disused, and baron took its place..

Eucharist :: Eucharist (n.) The sacrament of the Lord's Supper; the solemn act of ceremony of commemorating the death of Christ, in the use of bread and wine, as the appointed emblems; the communion..

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