Q.

a COLLECTION of ARTICLES, Injunctions, Canons, Orders, Ordinances, & Conſtitutions Eccleſiaſtical, With other PUBLICK RECORDS of the Church of England, Chiefly in the Times of K. Edward VI. Q. Elizabeth, K. James, and K. Charles I.

1684 [1559], Anth[ony] Sparrow, compiler, A Collection of Articles, Injunctions, Canons, Orders, Ordinances, & Constitutions Ecclesiastical, with Other Publick Records of the Church of England, […], 4th edition, London: […] Blanch Rawlet […], →OCLC, title page:

Wherefore the Earl of Eſſex, if he had not been befated with a ſtrong Opinion of ſucceſs in all his actions, (though built on the weakeſt foundation,) would never have referred his life and future well-being to the ſole arbitration of Chance, and the unconſtant guidance of a Womans Affection; which being only skin-deep, could not but in a Court furniſh a perſon of far leſs magnitude than a Sovereign Power with choice enough; eſpecially after his enemies, for their own ſecurity, had ſo far Indulged his, as to furniſh him with an Army paid by the Q. and choſen by himſelf.

1689 [1683], Francis Osborn[e], “Some Traditional Memorials on the Reign of Q. Elizabeth”, in The Works of Francis Osborn, Esq; […], 9th edition, London: Printed, and are to be sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, →OCLC, paragraph 10, page 606:

And his Elogy upon Q. Elizabeth, and her Successor K. James, in the latter end of his Henry VII, is a Proof of that Play's being written after the Accession of the latter of those two Princes to the Crown of England.

1709, Nicholas Rowe, Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespear:

MEMORIALS of AFFAIRS of STATE in the REIGNS of Q. ELIZABETH and K. JAMES I.

1725, Ralph Winwood, Edmund Sawyer, Memorials of Affairs of State in the Reigns of Q. Elizabeth and K. James I. […] In Three Volumes, volume I, London: Printed by W[illiam] B[owyer], for T. Ward, […], →OCLC, title page:

Tories taken in by K. William, II. 40, 242, 254. and by Q. Anne, 313, 314, 552.

a. 1716 (date written), Thomas Burnet, “An Index to the Two Volumes of This History”, in [Gilbert] Burnet, edited by Thomas Burnet, Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time. […], volume II, London: […] Joseph Downing […], and Henry Woodfall […], published 1734, →OCLC, page 763, column 2:


Abuna

From Ge'ez አቡነ (ʾäbunä, “our father”), from Arabic أَبُونَا (ʔabūnā, “our father”), from أَبُو (ʔabū), a form of أَب (ʔab, “father”), and ـنَا (-nā, “our”).

Two weeks later, before Abunas Pēṭros and Mātēwos, Menilek publicly swore not to deceive Mangashā nor cause him any harm.

1982, Ḥagai Erlikh, Ethiopia and Eritrea During the Scramble for Africa: A Political Biography of Rās Alulā, 1875-1897, African Studies Center, page 180:

Thus, four Ethiopian monks were consecrated in Cairo in June 1929 (Abunas Abreham, Petros, Mikael, Yeshaq), and the fifth (Abuna Sawiros) was consecrated in Addis Ababa in January 1930.

2012, Wudu Tafete Kassu, “Religion and Cold War Politics in Ethiopia”, in Philip Emil Muehlenbeck, editor, Religion and the Cold War: A Global Perspective, Nashville, Tenn.: Vanderbilt University Press, →ISBN, page 143:

The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles

Oxford University Press
w:Oxford University Press

The title of the leader, or patriarch, of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.


Mr. and Mrs.

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Mr. and Mrs..wav

Mr. and Mrs. Smith.

Mr. and Mrs. John Smith. (dated)

In the evening the reception party and a few other friends were entertained at cards by Mr. and Mrs. Flint. These guests included Messrs. and Mmes. Frank W. King, J. B. Bushnell, J. H. F. Peck, Fred Parke, Frank Burnett, Dr. and Mrs. M. L. Moore, Mrs. Sanders, the Misses Fairchild, Coleman, Messrs. B. E. Green. Luther Green, Barnwell, Drs. Rogers and Bryant. / The members of the Bonnie Brae Club were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Akin at their handsome residence on West Beacon street on the 13th. The prizes at whist were won by Miss Coleman and Mr. H. Jevne.

1898 January 22, “Society”, in The Capital, volume VII, number 4, Los Angeles, Calif., page 5, column 2:

Guests at the St. Louis affair included E. Lawrence Phillips, Ralph Lockett, Eddie Coe, Harvey Wilson, Del Lampkin, Morris Lipsky, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Lipsky, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Sharkey, Messrs. and Mmes. Mel Vaught, Harold Eutah, John McKee, Cecil Turner, Ray Turner, Jack Price, Earl Bunting, Ted Martin, Orval Williams, Robert L. Heth and Mike J. Dressen, W. M. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. George Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Proper, Tony Silvestri, E. M. Ford, John Fabick, who had 44 in his party for the largest single party of the evening; […]

1947 January 11, “Lads, Lassies Welcome ’47; 4 Orgs Hosts At New Year’s; 500 attend banquet and ball in St. Louis—HASC host to 225 in Kansas City”, in The Billboard, page 66:

Out of town guests attending today’s anniversary event will include Mmes. Wilson Nesbitt, Marjorie Mayne, Doris Weatherstone Smith and Sir Humphery Cotton Minchin, from England; William R. Mesland of Iran; Mr. and Mrs. John Watson of San Francisco; Messrs. and Mmes. Robert Butt, R. D. Roberts, Joseph Perry, Charles E. and E. W. Ballwanz, and Maj. and Mrs. C. E. Collings of Los Angeles, and Mr. and Mrs. George Evans of Hemet.

1959 February 1, “Pains To Receive On Anniversary”, in The San Diego Union; republished in Rodney H. Pain, Beatrix: From Royal Court to Cookstove, Trafford Publishing, 2003, →ISBN:

Out of town friends and relatives at the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Tomaschek, Chicago; Messrs^([sic]) and Mmes. Wm. Domonoske, Fred Domonoske, and Herman Domonoske, of Waterville; Mr. and Mrs. Paul Tesch and Mr. and Mrs. Carl Weckwerth, Granite Falls; Mr. and Mrs. Joe Holtan, Dawson; Mr. and Mrs. Paul Miller and Mrs. G. Lange of Echo; […]

1987, Bernelda Ost Roberts, compiler, A Genealogy of the Weckwerth Family: From Posen (Prussia) to Minnesota and Wisconsin, Madison, Wis.: B.O. Roberts, →OCLC, page 274:

a title used for a married couple before the surname or before the name of the husband.


FRS

(software) Initialism of functional requirements specification.


Bishop

en:Bishop (artillery)
en:Bishop (disambiguation)
en:Bishop (surname)

Alternative letter-case form of bishop, particularly as a title or term of address.


Prince of Wales

en-noun

Prince of Wales (plural Princes of Wales)

Furthermore, two of the Princesses of Wales — Lady Anne Neville and Katharine of Aragon — became Queen through later marriages and were not consorts of Princes of Wales at the time of their coronations.

1983, Mary Beacock Fryer, Arthur Bousfield, Garry Toffoli, “Introduction”, in Lives of the Princesses of Wales, Toronto, Ont.: Dundurn Press, →ISBN, page 6, column 1:

A royal title given to the male heir apparent to the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom.


Bhabhi

(South Asia) A title used for an elder brother's wife


Judge

An unincorporated community in Olmsted County, Minnesota, United States, named after Edward Judge.


Lord-Lieutenant

(UK) An official appointed to a ceremonial county by the reigning British monarch to be responsible for the organisation of all official Royal visits to their county.


MCPON

w:Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy

(military, US) Initialism of Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy.


SgtMaj

(military, US) Acronym of sergeant major.


SgtMajMarCor

Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps
w:Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps

(military, US) Abbreviation of Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps.


SMMC

(military, US) Initialism of Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps.


LtCol

Lieutenant Colonel
Lieutenant Colonel#English

(military, US, abbreviation) Lieutenant Colonel.


SMA

SMA (countable and uncountable, plural SMAs)

sergeant Major of the Army
w:sergeant Major of the Army

(military, US) Initialism of sergeant Major of the Army.

To simplify a bit, once having decided, the PFC passes the decision on to the rest of the frontal cortex, which passes it to the premotor cortex, then to the SMA and, a few steps later, on to your muscles.

2023, Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will, New York: Penguin, →ISBN:

supplementary motor area
supplementary motor area#English

(neuroanatomy) Initialism of supplementary motor area.

superior mesenteric artery
superior mesenteric artery#English

(anatomy) Initialism of superior mesenteric artery.

spinal muscular atrophy
spinal muscular atrophy#English

(pathology) Initialism of spinal muscular atrophy.

Initialism of standard metropolitan area.


CMC

CMC (countable and uncountable, plural CMCs)

command master chief petty officer
w:command master chief petty officer

(military, US) Initialism of command master chief petty officer.


master gunnery sergeant

master gunnery sergeant (plural master gunnery sergeants)

non-commissioned officer
non-commissioned officer

(military, US) A non-commissioned officer of rank E-9 in the United States Marine Corps, ranking above a master sergeant/first sergeant and below a warrant officer. It is equal in grade to sergeant major


Richard Schram, Air Force A1/C, Korea

2011, Bob Frankenstein, Counterfeit Peace: The Cold War The Wisconsin Connection Book Two:


A1C Carole Goodman was bored.

airman 1st class
airman 1st class#English

(military) Abbreviation of airman 1st class.


The Air Intelligence Officer (A-2) would then present new items...

1998, Ian Gooderson, Air Power at the Battlefront:

(military) Intelligence officer on an air force staff.


I was still a two-striper (A2/c) I couldn't afford phone calls.

2010, Franklin D. Duke, 21 Years in Blue: Story of Frank's Air Force Career 1951-1972:


Authorized grade of A2C (E-3).

2012, The Code Of Federal Regulations Of The United States Of America:


Another case involved an A3C "N."

1967, The United States Air Force JAG Law Review:


and those of us who finished were promoted to the grade of airman third class - A3/C.

2006, Wolfgang W.E. Samuel, Coming to Colorado:


K.

Hee wrote likewiſe to yͤ L. Iohn the infante, yͤ L. of Biſkey, and to yͤ Lady Mary of Biſkey, gouernereſſe of yͤ K. of Caſtile and Leon, and to Iames K. of Aragon, requeſting them to aid him with men of warre, as well horſemẽ as footemen againſt his aduerſarie yͤ Frẽch K. that moſt vniuſtly went about to depriue him of his inheritãce.

1577, Raphaell Holinshed, “Edward the second”, in The Laste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume II, London: […] for Iohn Hunne, →OCLC, page 875, column 1:

The delectableſt luſtie ſight and mouingeſt obiect, me thought it was that our Ile ſets forth, and nothing behinde in number with the inuincible Spaniſh Armada, though they were not ſuch Gargantuan boyſterous gulliguts as they, though ſhips and galeaſſes they would haue beene reckoned in the nauy of K. Edgar, who is chronicled & regiſtred with three thouſand ſhips of warre to haue ſcoured the narrow ſeas, and ſailed round about England euery Summer.

1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 5:

a SERMON Preach’d on the Coronation day of K. Charles I.

1661, [Ralph] Brownrigg, A Sermon Preach’d on the Coronation Day of K. Charles I. March 7. 1644. in S. Mary’s in Cambridge, London: […] John Williams […], title page:

a COLLECTION of ARTICLES, Injunctions, Canons, Orders, Ordinances, & Conſtitutions Eccleſiaſtical, With other PUBLICK RECORDS of the Church of England, Chiefly in the Times of K. Edward VI. Q. Elizabeth, K. James, and K. Charles I.

1684 [1559], Anth[ony] Sparrow, compiler, A Collection of Articles, Injunctions, Canons, Orders, Ordinances, & Constitutions Ecclesiastical, with Other Publick Records of the Church of England, […], 4th edition, London: […] Blanch Rawlet […], →OCLC, title page:

THE LIVES Of the moſt Famous Engliſh Poets, or the Honour of Parnassus; In a Brief ESSAY of the WORKS and WRITINGS of above Two Hundred of them, from the Time of K. William the Conqueror, To the Reign of His Preſent Majeſty King JAMES II.

1687, William Winstanley, The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets, or The Honour of Parnassus in a Brief Essay of the Works and Writings of Above Two Hundred of Them, from the Time of K. William the Conqueror, to the Reign of His Present Majesty King James II., London: […] H. Clark, for Samuel Manship […], title page:

[…] the K. made him a Knight, a Baron, a Viſcount, & an Earl in one day, […]

1689 [1683], Francis Osborn[e], “Some Traditional Memorials on the Reign of Q. Elizabeth”, in The Works of Francis Osborn, Esq; […], 9th edition, London: Printed, and are to be sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, →OCLC, paragraph 10, page 453:

When the K. from the Word he hath given does ſwerve, / And the Judges the Oath they have taken obſerve, / Or for breaking have but what they deſerve; And Popery, &c. / When Archbiſhop of York we ſee Dr. Ken, / And Compton made Biſhop of London agen, / And Herbert Rule, as before, on the Main; […]

1697, Poems on Affairs of State. The Second Part. Written During the Reign of K. James the II. Against Popery and Slavery, and His Arbitrary Proceedings. […], London, page 15:

now they are upon the preparing bills for evacating all grants of estates and other interests in England and Ireland from the crowne since K. Charles the Second.

a. 1709, James Ogilvy Earl of Seafield, James Ogilvy Earl of Findlater, James Grant, Seafield Correspondence from 1685 to 1708, published 1912, page 222:

And his Elogy upon Q. Elizabeth, and her Successor K. James, in the latter end of his Henry VII, is a Proof of that Play's being written after the Accession of the latter of those two Princes to the Crown of England.

1709, Nicholas Rowe, Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespear:

[…] and all along K. Charles his Reign countenanced the Doctrine of Paſſive Obedience, […]

1719, Roger Coke, A Detection of the Court and State of England, During the Reigns of K. James I. Charles I. Charles II. and James II. As Also the Inter-regnum. […], volume II, fourth edition ([…]), London: […] J. Brotherton and W. Meadows, […], page 351:

MEMORIALS of AFFAIRS of STATE in the REIGNS of Q. ELIZABETH and K. JAMES I.

1725, Ralph Winwood, Edmund Sawyer, Memorials of Affairs of State in the Reigns of Q. Elizabeth and K. James I. […] In Three Volumes, volume I, London: Printed by W[illiam] B[owyer], for T. Ward, […], →OCLC, title page:

Tories taken in by K. William, II. 40, 242, 254. and by Q. Anne, 313, 314, 552.

a. 1716 (date written), Thomas Burnet, “An Index to the Two Volumes of This History”, in [Gilbert] Burnet, edited by Thomas Burnet, Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time. […], volume II, London: […] Joseph Downing […], and Henry Woodfall […], published 1734, →OCLC, page 763, column 2:

EDward Herbert, ſon of Richard Herbert, Eſq; and Suſan Newport his wife, was born at Montgomery-caﬅle, and brought to court by the earl of Pembrook, where he was knighted by K. James, who ſent him over embaſſador into France. Afterwards K. Charles the ﬁrﬅ created him baron of Caﬅle-Iſland in Ireland, and ſome years after baron of Cherbury in Montgomeryſhire.

1766: David Lloyd, State⸗⸗Worthies: or, The Statesmen and Favourites of England from the Reformation to the Revolution, volume II, “Obſervations on the Life of the Lord Herbert of Cherbury”, pages 339–340 (J. Robson)

Adelold had half a ſuling and half a yoke, and in the time of K. Edward the Confeſſor it was worth 40 ſhillings, and afterwards 20 ſhillings, now 40 ſhillings.

1790, Edward Hasted, “The Hundred of Calehill”, in The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent. […], volume III, Canterbury, Kent: […] [F]or the author, by Simmons and Kirkby, →OCLC, page 207, column 2:


Red Army man

(historical) The lowest military rank of the Red Army.

կարմիրբանակային

the lowest military rank of the Red Army


Mirza

From Persian میرزا (mirzâ), from earlier میرزاد (mirzâd), composed of میر (mir, “commander”) (from Arabic title أَمِير (ʔamīr, “commander, prince”)) and the suffix ـزاد، ـزاده (-zâd, -zâde, “child of, son of”), from زادن (zâdan). Akin to Amir, amir, emir and admiral.

A title denoting the rank of a high nobleman or prince, signifying a male-line descent and relationship to the Imperial Families of Turkey, Persia and later South Asia, and was the title borne by members of the highest aristocracies in Tatar states, such as the khanates of Kazan and Astrakhan.


Venerable

en-adj

Venerable (comparative more Venerable, superlative most Venerable)

more Venerable (comparative)
most Venerable (superlative)

A form of address for an archdeacon in the Anglican Church

kunnianarvoisa

The description in the Roman Catholic Church of someone in the first stages of canonisation

agurgarri

The description of some saints in the Eastern Orthodox Church


Venerable

(Singapore) A title indicating respect, prefixed to the names of Buddhist monks and nuns.


Insp

(law enforcement) Abbreviation of inspector.


air vice-marshal

en-noun

air vice-marshal (plural air vice-marshals)

A rank in the Royal Air Force, between that of air commodore and air marshal, equivalent to an army major general.


squadron leader

squadron leader (plural squadron leaders)

A rank in the RAF, between that of flight lieutenant and wing commander, equivalent to an army major


wing commander

A person holding a rank in the RAF between that of squadron leader and group captain, equivalent to an army lieutenant colonel


air commodore

A person holding a rank, in the Royal Air Force and many Commonwealth air forces, between that of group captain and air vice-marshal, equivalent to an army brigadier general, or equivalent rank in other air forces.


m'lud

1969, Monty Python's Flying Circus, 1.3: "How to Recognise Different Types of Trees From Quite a Long Way Away"
Mr. Larch, you heard the case for the prosecution. Is there anything you wish to say before I pass sentence?
Well... I'd just like to say, m'lud, I've got a family... a wife and six kids... and I hope very much you don't have to take away my freedom... because... well, because, m'lud, freedom is a state much prized within the realm of civilised society.

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling

(British) Pronunciation spelling of m'lord


Dauphin

Coordinate term: Dauphine

French Dauphins: Louis XII ascended to the throne without having been Dauphin. He had two sons, both of whom died young and bore the title. Then the title passed to François I’s son. Henri II and François II succeeded, but Henri IV was not Dauphin. Louis XIII was of his line.

1983, Jean-Charles de Fontbrune, translated by Alexis Lykiard, Nostradamus: Countdown to Apocalypse, Pan Books, published 1984, →ISBN, page 36:


Justice

A place in the United States:
A village in Cook County, Illinois.

An unincorporated community in Franklin County, North Carolina.

census-designated place
census-designated place

A census-designated place in Rogers County, Oklahoma.

A census-designated place in Mingo County, West Virginia.


praporshchik

A senior non-commissioned officer, originally in the Russian military, and still in certain other uniformed services of the Russian government.

प्रापोर्शचिक

a senior non-commissioned officer, originally in the Russian military


spiritship

(hence, with his or your) Title applied to, or used when addressing, a spirit.


commanding officer

commanding officer (plural commanding officers)

The officer in command of, and typically having ultimate authority over, a military unit.


right honourable

I have in honourable and right honourable gentlemen opposite an admirable example of how to cut the painter of a similar league, with the maximum of political advancement, and the minimum of fidelity to a founder.

1906, FE Smith, maiden speech to House of Commons, 12 Mar 1906

A courtesy title applied to a privy counsellor, to the lord mayor of various cities, governor general, and to the prime minister of certain Commonwealth countries.


Princess

It was funny to me that my name, Princess Kasune Zulu, became such a big deal on this trip. I participated in a number of media interviews where journalists fixated on my name. "Are you a real princess?" they asked time and time again. Their published articles all too often said, "Princess is only her name, not a title."

2009, Princess Kasune Zulu, Warrior Princess, IVP Books, →ISBN, page 202:

(rare) A female given name from English.


Imperator

Imperator (plural Imperators or Imperatores)

Imperators (plural)
Imperatores (plural)

By a law of the tribunes L. Marius and M. Cato penalties were imposed upon all Imperatores who should be found guilty of having made false returns to the senate, and it was ordained that so soon as they returned to the city they should be required to attest the correctness of such documents upon oath before the city quaestor. […] But to compensate in some degree for what was then taken away, the custom was introduced of bestowing what were Triumphalia Ornamenta, that is, permission to receive the titles bestowed upon and to appear in public with the robes worn by the Imperatores of the commonwealth when they triumphed, and to bequeath to their descendants triumphal statues.

1848, William Smith, editor, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, 2nd edition, London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly, […]: John Murray, […], pages 1164 and 1167:

He [w:Trajan] was careful to distinguish and reward merit, and raised men of family, and the kindred of former Imperators, into situations of prominence or command.

1850, Mrs. Hamilton Gray [i.e., w:Elizabeth Caroline Gray], Emperors of Rome from Augustus to Constantine, Being a Continuation of the History of Rome, London: Thomas Hatchard, […], page 250:

They were permitted to receive the titles bestowed on the Imperatores of the Republic; to appear in the garb worn by them, a gold embroidered dress (‘toga picta’), and flowered tunic (‘tunica palmeata’), and a crown of laurel.

1861, Percival Frost, The Germania and Agricola of Tacitus, with Notes (Grammar School Classics), London: Whittaker and Co. […]; George Bell, […], page 154:

It is convenient to consider the Imperial dignity as that which originated in the Imperatores of Rome; the Kingship of Italy, symbolized by the iron crown, as a title resting on the subjugation of the Lombards.

1863, R[obert] G[ordon] Latham, The Nationalities of Europe, volume II, London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., […], page 335:

The free citizens of Rome become the slaves of an autocratic government. They fall a prey to the unlimited sway of Imperators who again give birth to a Nero and a Caligula.

1896, Charles Hermann Leibbrand, This Age of Ours: Containing The Book of Problems and The Book of Socialism, 2nd edition, London: w:Sampson Low, Marston & Company, page 251:

For within the principia the highest, and focal, point of the whole ensemble is formed by the ‘temple of the standards’, on whose lintel a Latin inscription proudly proclaimed the completion of the work: ‘The Repairers of their world and Propagators of the human race, our Lords Diocletianus and Maximianus, the most unconquered Imperatores, and Constantius and Maximianus (i.e., Galerius), the most noble Caesares, have successfully founded the camp (castra), under the care of Sossianus Hierocles, vir perfectissimus, governor (praeses) of the province, devoted to their numen and maiestas’.

1993, Fergus Millar, The Roman Near East, 31 BC – AD 337, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 182:

The upheavals of the late 18th and early 19th centuries brought to the fore Napoleon Bonaparte (possibly the last of the Imperators) on one side, and popular ‘heroes’ such as Horatio Nelson and the Duke of Wellington on the other.

1998, David R. Sear, The History and Coinage of the Roman Imperators 49-27 BC, Spink and Son Ltd, →ISBN, page ix:

(formal, usually italicized) The reigning emperor; male equivalent of Imperatrix


Sheikh

The Makaddam of Dhaboot, Sheikh Awadth, is a fine-looking old man, and seemed much gratified at the recognition by Government of his kindness to the sailors. Two of the headmen of Nishton, Sheikhs Muhammad and Moosa, who happened to be here, received their presents at the same time as Sheikh Awadth.

1885, Report on the Administration of the Persian Gulf Political Residency and Muscat Political Agency for 1884-85 (Selections from the Records of the Government of India, Foreign Department; No. CCVII), Calcutta: […] [T]he Superintendent of Government Printing, India, page 20:


Emperor

Certainly LH levels rise in female Emperors during the brooding (guard) phase of chick rearing and decrease significantly in females that have lost their chicks, suggesting that there is a link between brooding behaviour and elevated LH levels.

2010, Lloyd Spencer Davis, Martin Renner, Penguins, page 128:

Most Emperor breeding failures are actually caused by their fellow penguins: either a mate's careless transfer of the egg, or when a disgruntled neighbor's aggressive action slides or breaks the egg.

2011, David Salomon, Penguin-Pedia, page 29:

There are Seventeen kinds of penguin, but the Emperor is the only one that breeds in Antarctica in midwinter.

2014, Martin Jenkins, The Emperor's Egg, page 3:

Nevertheless the Emperors were unsettled owing, there can be no doubt, to the knowledge that bad weather was impending.

2016, Apsley Cherry-Garrard, The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic 1910-1913:

Alternative form of emperor (emperor penguin).


Captain

These islands were discovered by Captain Cook.

[…] the governor, convinced of the need of a thorough exploration of the south coast, now ordered Grant to return and carefully survey the bay between Cape Otway and Cape Schank, besides the land which had been seen by Captains Black and Buyers, then to sail to King George’s Sound and, in returning, to explore the whole south coast to Wilson’s Promontory, going to the head of every bay or inlet as far as possible.

1906, Ida Lee, The Coming of the British to Australia, 1788 to 1829, Longmans, Green, and Co., page 100:

The honorific of a captain, especially a ship's captain or a person with the military rank of captain.


Urius

From the Latin Urius, derived from the Greek Οὔριος (Oúrios), itself derived from οὖρος (oûros, “fair wind”).

It was by you that the temple of Jupiter Urius, the most ancient and the most venerated of all the temples of the barbarians, was plundered.

1891, M. Tullius Cicero, translated by Charles Duke Yonge, Against Piso:

Signia ... was celebrated for its temple of Iupiter Urius...

1898, Harry Thurston Peck, transl., Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities:

A rare epithet of the Roman god Jupiter.


Regius Professor

Regius Professor (plural Regius Professors or Regii Professores)

Regius Professors (plural)
Regii Professores (plural)

As our wish and our object is not so much to blame as to praise, we regret, that we gave reason (p. 216) to expect any notice of this pamphlet, whose Author, besides railing at the present arrangements of our prelacy, tythes, &c., would, by a fixed perpetual rent-charge, do that for the clergy, which, by a similar error, was badly done for our Regii Professores, i.e. provide for the clergy an unalterable annual maintenance! which, according to the present value of money, might, possibly, compensate the Clergy; but which, as the value of money changes, must, ere long, leave them paupers indeed!

1835, a Clergyman, The Textuary and Ritualist; or, Biblical and Liturgical Repertory: Intended as a Help to Students of the Bible, and a Guide to Members of the Church, volume I, London: […] J. Souter, […]; L. B. Seeley, […]; Hatchard and Son, […]; and J. Nesbit, […], page 246:

“The sum of two hundred and fifty pounds nineteen shillings and tenpence, standing in the names of the Reverend James Ameraux Jeremie, D.D., John Thomas Abdy, Esquire, LL.D., and Henry John Hayles Bond, Esquire, M.D. (three of the Regii Professores in the University of Cambridge), being the produce of two hundred and forty pounds, the purchase-money for property in Cambridge taken under the powers and provisions of the Cambridge Improvement Act, 28 George III. / “The sum of six hundred and eight pounds nine shillings and eight pence, also standing in the names of the Reverend James Ameraux Jeremie, D.D., John Thomas Abdy, Esquire, LL.D., and Henry John Hayles Bond, Esquire, M.D., the three Regii Professores in the University of Cambridge, being the produce of five hundred and sixty-two pounds seventeen shillings and sixpence, the purchase-money for property in Cambridge taken by Saint John’s College.

1870, Twenty-Second Report from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, with an Appendix. Report, and Part I. of Appendix., London: […] George E[dward] Eyre and William Spottiswoode, […] [f]or Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, page 757:

...some of us wish to avail ourselves of the opportunity to discuss them, and, as we think most proper, to make our Regius Professor a party to the discussion; and we do so because our ultimate and chief object is to co-operate with the Head of our Faculty in the duties of his chair as he has officially defined them.

1905, A Letter to the Regius Professor of Modern History on the Teaching of History at Oxford:

New Troy. London was supposed to have been founded by Aeneas, descendant of Brutus, after his defeat by the Greeks. Accordingly it was also called Troynovant, as Brathwait humorously referred to it in Mercurius Britanicus: "In Troynovant . . . thou shalt see Coblers and Hucksters, that arise out of old Shoes and Panniers, beating the Pulpit and broaching new doctrines, as if they were Regii Professores, and held by the Rabble to be most profound Divinity. . . ." Quoted in Black, Richard Brathwait, An Account of His Life and Works (Philadelphia, 1928), p.76.

1928, Matthew Wilson Black, Richard Brathwait: An Account of His Life and Works, Philadelphia, Pa., page 76; quoted in Allen H. Lanner, editor, A Critical Edition of Richard Brathwait’s Whimzies, New York, N.Y., London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1991, page 340:

The forty-first chapter of a draft of new statutes for the college, drawn up in the reign of Queen Mary, is exclusively concerned with the three Regius Professors; and though these draft statutes were never formally approved by the Crown, and therefore never became operative, the code which Queen Elizabeth gave to the college was almost identical with them, except for such modifications as the religious changes required.

1955, D.A. Winstanley, Early Victorian Cambridge, page 289:

And this Statute, so far as the letter is concerned at any rate, does not give the powers, now claimed, to the Regius Professor — for one plain reason — that it does not once mention his name throughout.

2006, John Henry Newman, Francis J. McGrath, Charles Stephen Dessain, The letters and diaries of John Henry Newman, →ISBN:

regius professor
regius professor#English

A VACANCY having occurred in the HEAD MASTERSHIP of this Institution, Candidates for the Office are requested to send in their Names and Testimonials on or before the 1st of July next, to the Rev. the Regii Professores of Divinity, Hebrew, and Greek, in the University of Cambridge, under cover to the Rev. Professor Lee, D.D., College-green, Bristol, from whom information as to the duties and emoluments of the Office may be obtained.

1846 June, The Ecclesiastical Gazette; or, Monthly Register of the Affairs of the Church of England, and of Its Religious Societies and Institutions, volume VIII, London: […] Charles Cox, […], page 287:

Acquainted, however, as you would have us believe you are, with the internal economy of the Church, you cannot be ignorant of the fact, that the Bishops have been in the habit of requiring from all candidates for holy orders certificates of having attended the Lectures of the Divinity Regii Professores of Oxford and Cambridge, whoever these might be.

1847, W[illiam] B[almbro’] Flower, A Letter to The Right Hon. Lord John Russell, Her Majesty’s First Lord of the Treasury, in Reply to His Lordship’s Answer to the Remonstrant Bishops. With a Postscript on Dr. Hampden’s Letter., London: Joseph Masters, […], page 5:

There were but three Regii Professores of Physic at Cambridge in the last century (Chr. Green, Cai. 1700: Russell Plumptre, Qu. 1741: Sir Isaac Pennington 1793—1817), which speaks well for their professional treatment of themselves, but I do not know that they ever lectured.

1877, Christopher Wordsworth, Scholae Academicae: Some Account of the Studies at the English Universities in the Eighteenth Century, Cambridge: At the University Press. London: Cambridge Warehouse, […]. Cambridge: Deighton, Bell, and Co., page 172:

Finally they appointed the Regius Professors of Divinity both at Oxford and at Cambridge to provide for the occasion, and it took both of these a long series of months to propound their answers to Campion’s tract, which is only as long as a magazine article.

1914, Edmund Campoon, Ten Reasons Proposed to His Adversaries for Disputation in the Name of the Faith and Presented to the Illustrious Members of Our Universities, London: The Manresa Press, […]. B. Herder, […], page 25:

The Divinity School consists of the Regius Professor of Divinity, and Archbishop King's Lecturer, each of whom has his assistants.

2000, Nicholas Lee, Irish identity and literary periodicals, 1832-1842 - Volume 4, page 115:

In 1895 Sanderson succeeded Acland as Regius Professor of Medicine. Other medical sciences, including anatomy and pathology, were strengthened, the curriculum and orginazation of Oxford medicine was reformed, and by the 1890s it was possible to get a decent training in the preclinical medical sciences at Oxford, walk the wards for a year or two in London, and, upon examination by a regius professor who still had very few other duties, get an Oxford medical degree.

2002, Michael Bliss, William Osler: A Life in Medicine, →ISBN, page 310:

Sir Farquhar Buzzard on being appointed Regius Professor of Medicine in 1929 did not wish to occupy the house, and it was let by Christ Church successively to two tenants, first Miss H. L. Hurlston and later a Miss Fairburn.

2004, Lawrence D. Longo, Our Lords, the Sick, →ISBN:

Part of the title of a regius professor.


Your Rottenness

From your + rottenness, from rotten (“cruel, mean, immoral”). Compare Your Majesty and Your Highness.

[Iago is running on the same place, to turn wheels on a machine that produces an artificial storm required to cast a magical spell]
Iago: [panting] With all due respect, Your Rottenness, couldn't we just wait for a real storm?
Jafar: Save your breath, Iago. Faster!

“Ready my vacuum cleaner and pack eight bottles of chartreuse sunscreen. Henry Potty will rue the day he dared defy me!”
Miffie smiled. “Don't worry, Your Rottenness. His series is numbered.”

2008, Valerie Estelle Frankel, Henry Potty and the Deathly Paper Shortage: An Unauthorized Harry Potter Parody, Henry Potty and the Pet Rock, →ISBN, page 53:

(rare) A pseudo-title of respect used towards a villain or another unlikeable person.


my Lady

peers of the realm
peers of the realm#English

(UK) Used in direct address to female peers of the realm, usually now excluding duchesses and, potentially, the Lords Spiritual.

(UK) Used in direct address to the female Lord Mayors of certain important cities, including London and Canterbury.

(UK) Used in direct address to certain female judges, particularly High Court Judges and above.


Chancellor

An unincorporated community in Geneva County, Alabama.

A town in Turner County, South Dakota, named for Chancellor Otto von Bismarck.

Spotsylvania County
Spotsylvania County#English

An unincorporated community in Spotsylvania County, Virginia.


Editor-in-Chief

An honorific for the editor-in-chief of a publication.


Your Dukeness

"Proud to make the acquaintance of your Dukeness," I said, hastily swallowing a quantity of tobacco-juice.

1888 October 27, “The Fakir In England”, in Grip, volume 31, number 803, page 4:

1985, "A Gummi by Any Other Name", season 1, episode 9 of Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears
Duke Sigmund Igthorn: I've always known I was a genius, but this time I've surpassed myself.
Ogre: Oh yes, […] Your Dukeness.

(rare, humorous) A pseudo-title of respect used towards a duke.


Kentucky Colonel

en-proper noun

Kentucky Colonel (plural Kentucky colonels)

Kentucky (US)

Colonel (US)

Origin unconfirmed from 1775. As a compound word that was merged from two lexemes the title is a demonym and exonym label that emerged in the early 19th century to refer to the old colonial leaders of Kentucky. In 1896, the state adopted the term as an official referencial title and commission for civilian officers with access to the governor.
Kentucky from an Iroquoian word meaning "prairie"; compare Mohawk kenhtà:ke (“the meadow”), Seneca gëdá'geh (“at the field”), combined with the title Colonel which meant "head of colony, company or county" as it was originated from the place representative of its territorial leaders and founders as of 1775-1792.

unk

Origin unconfirmed from 1775

The greatest title of authority and honor bestown by the Commonwealth of Kentucky, recognizing noteworthy accomplishments, actions, deeds and service to a community, state or a nation.

A natural person who has been recognized with the style of Honorable by the Governor of Kentucky and is granted a Kentucky Colonel Commission.

The scene is laid at New York, in the house of Mr. Freeman, a New York merchant, who is uncle to the Kentucky Colonel.

April 20, 1833, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The National Gazette (page 1)

President George H. W. Bush was a Kentucky Colonel.

2019, Albert W. A. Schmid, How to Drink Like a Spy, page 81:

A person holding the honorable title of colonel who lived in or migrated to Kentucky as the result of a land bounty deed.


Chowdhury

From Sanskrit चतुर्धर (caturdhara, “name of a family or race”). Cognate with Assamese চৌধুৰি (soudhuri), Bengali চৌধুরি (cōudhuri), Nepali चौधरी (caudharī), Hindi चौधरी (caudhrī), Sylheti ꠌꠗꠞꠤ (sodri), Urdu چودھری.


author of life

ôʹthərəvlīfʹ

/ˈɔːθəɹəvˈlaɪf/

Calque of Late Latin auctor vītae (literally “the originator or cause of life”): “life” understood to mean existence simpliciter in the case of God the Father, and to mean the salvation of eternal life in the case of God the Son.

(Christianity) An epithet of God and of Jesus.


Your Excellency

head

Your Excellency (plural Your Excellencies)

(formal) A title of respect used when addressing heads of state other than monarchs, heads of government, governors, ambassadors, certain ecclesiastics, royalty, and others holding equivalent rank.


Maheshwar

From Sanskrit महेश्वर (maheśvara); ultimately from महा (mahā, “great”) + ईश्वर (īśvara, “god”).

(Hinduism) Epithet of the Hindu god Shiva.


Sra.

[…] at auction in lots to Sra. Enriqueta E. de Echenique and Srtas. Maria and Victoriana Erratchu at an average price of […]

1927, The Review of the River Plate, page 41:

Certificates of accomplishment were presented by Secretary of Labor L. B. Schwellenbach on July 11 to four trainees of the Women's Bureau - Srta. Maria Mendez of Chile, Srta. Isabel Alayza of Peru, Srta. Josephina Albano of Brazil, and Sra. Mercedes Moure de Carmona of Puerto Rico.

1946 August, Mary Cannon, “Women Labor Officials of Other American Republics Receive Certificates of Accomplishment”, in The Record, volume 13, number 8, page 20:

The Howard Nibeckers, of nearby Tlaquepaque were escorts on tours of the fine collections of Srs. and Sras. Clemenz, Ugarte, Rosillo, among others.


His Excellency

(formal) A title of respect for males used when referring to heads of state, heads of government, governors, ambassadors, ecclesiastics such as Catholic Bishops, Nuncios, royalty and those of equivalent rank.


Her Excellency

(formal) A title of respect for females used when referring to heads of state, heads of government, governors, ambassadors, certain ecclesiastics, royalty, and others holding equivalent rank.


His Royal Majesty

(formal) A title of respect used when referring to a king.


Her Royal Majesty

(formal) A title of respect used when referring to a queen.


Lord President of the Council

(politics, UK) The fourth of the Great Officers of State of England.


El Shaddai

Borrowed from Hebrew אֵל שַׁדַּי (ʼĒl Šadạy, “God Almighty”).

bor

Epithet of Yahweh, usually translated as "God Almighty", though the exact meaning of "Shaddai" remains uncertain.


senior researcher

en-noun

senior researcher (plural senior researchers)

associate professor
associate professor#English

An academic title for a researcher usually of comparable standing to an associate professor.


Your Royal Highness

head

Your Royal Highness (plural Your Royal Highnesses)

A form of address used for certain members of a royal family.


your Honors

(formal, addressing several judges or magistrates, rare) the plural you


Lord Chancellor

en-noun

Lord Chancellor (plural Lord Chancellors)

(politics, UK) An office in the government of the United Kingdom, held by a Cabinet minister with responsibility for the efficient functioning and independence of the courts.


His Highness

(formal) A title of respect for male royals.

Hans Højhed

a title of respect when mentioning a male royal


Her Highness

(formal) A title of respect for female royals.

Hendes Højhed

a title of respect when mentioning a female royal


Good Shepherd

Referring to the Bible verse John 10:11.


Mr. President

Mister President
Mister President#English


All-Father

From all + father. The sense used to refer to Odin was a calque of Old Norse Alfǫðr.

Our first lesson is that God is a Father ; the second, that He is an All-Father ; that His Fatherhood is a fact in which others, without any limit perceptible to us, have an equal share with ourselves.

1891, Philip Hankinson Newnham, The All-father: Sermons Preached in a Village Church, page 27:

At a primitive stage this is sometimes (e.g. with the Australians) scarcely regarded as communion with a specific divinity or divinities, yet the All-Fathers and the mythical beings fill an important rôle in these rites, while at a more developed stage the rites have a close connexion with chthonic or heavenly powers.

1913, James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie, Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, page 737:

The Arunta totemic system could not coexist with an All-Father.

2010, Harold W. Montzka, The Separation of Heaven and Earth:

A supreme being; a god who rules over all others.


United States Attorney

United States Attorney (plural United States Attorneys)

United States of America
United States of America#English

A title for some attorneys for the federal government of the United States of America. The head of the government attorneys' office and prosecutor's office for a court district in the U.S. federal district court system, which represents the government's position.


JDSN

Initialism of Korean 전도사(傳道師) (jeondosa, “lay leader”) + 님 (nim, honorific suffix).

Through Pyon JDSN, whose love for the young souls is ardent, our youths' souls will be revived.

2003, Manwoo A. Kim, New Morning of the Pasture: Poetic Reflections of a Korean American Pastor, Hermit Kingdom Press, published 2003, page 14:

I think of their ongoing struggles to create innovative ministries all while the first-generation Korean pastor can't figure out why the Jdsn doesn't show up to 6:00 AM morning prayer every day.

2010, Jonathan Tran, "Why Asian-American Christianity is the Future", SANACS Journal (1), page 51

(Korean Protestantism) A title for a lay leader who has not been ordained as a pastor, particularly a youth group leader.


His Eminence

(Roman Catholicism) An honorific style for a cardinal


Allfather

Allfather, the father of gods and men, the one God, is the one who, like the Hellenic Zeus, orders destiny according to his everlasting laws.

1878, Wilhelm Zimmermann, A Popular History of Germany:


Allfather

We shall keep our God, but he will be an Allfather, and not an all-but-All-tormentor.

1882, John Torrey Morse (Jr.), Henry Cabot Lodge, Robert Percival Porter, The International Review - Volume 12, page 574:

The suggestion of a belief in an Allfather has however been challenged with much force by Mr. Hartland,” but has been adopted by Mrs. Parker in her work on the Euahlayi tribe.

1907, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London:

The Indo-European belief in an 'Allfather' may have inspired the Christian concept of 'Our Father in Heaven'.

1985, Roger Pearson, Anthropological Glossary, page 7:


Great Assassin

A title sarcastically given on September 24, 1896, by Gladstone to sultan Abdul Hamid II of the Ottoman Empire, in reference to the massacres of Ottoman Armenians.


First Gentleman

First Gentleman (plural First Gentlemen)

President Gloria M. Arroyo and First Gentleman Mike Arroyo (left) during a “pamanikan” with the Montealegre family (couple at right) to ask for the hand of their daughter engaged to be married to the President’s son Mikey M. Arroyo (center). […] The day of his arrival, Malacañang announced that henceforth the First Gentleman was going to have his own spokesman.

2002, Isabelo T. Crisostomo, The Power and the Glory: Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and Her Presidency, →ISBN:

President Macapagal-Arroyo had been amply forewarned. First Gentleman Miguel Arroyo said she “knew that her job as Vice President was to be prepared to take over[…]”

2004, The Macapagal-Arroyo Presidency and Administration: Record and Legacy, 2001-2004 : President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and Her Administration, University of the Philippines Press, →ISBN, page 52:

Meredith Nicholson becomes the 44th President of the United States and Milton Stafford becomes the country's "First Gentleman". […] After all what were husbands—”First Gentlemen”—good for if they didn’t go above and beyond for the ones they loved.

2004 November, Kristina Bachman, The First Gentleman, iUniverse, →ISBN:

Fourteen years ago, before the President and First Gentleman were married, they checked into Keene Memorial Hospital and there had a son, this boy, Cooper Jewett.

2005, Gary D. Schmidt, First Boy, →ISBN:

Seven years later, in 2006, Kubrador was released in the wake of another sequence of state crises: the political scandals of 2005 that implicated the First Gentleman of the Philippines, Mike Arroyo, in payoffs from the illegal gambling trade, jueteng. […] The opening intertitles point to jueteng payolas as being linked to both deposed leader Joseph “Erap” Estrada and family members of former president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, whose husband, First Gentleman Mike Arroyo, was also accused of involvement in jueteng.

2011 May 9, Jyostna Kapur, Keith B. Wagner, Neoliberalism and Global Cinema: Capital, Culture, and Marxist Critique, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN:

The husband (or man of similar rank) of a chief executive of a nation; especially the husband of the President of a country.


megaduke

From Byzantine Greek μέγας δούξ (mégas doúx, literally “great leader”). By surface analysis, mega- + duke.

bor

Roger de Flor was given the title of megaduke and the King of Bulgaria's daughter as his wife.

1968, Alan Lloyd, The Spanish Centuries, page 56:

In September 1169 the Byzantine admiral, the megaduke Andronicus Contostephanus, arrived in Tyre […]

1979, Jean Richard, translated by Janet Shirley, The Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, volume 1, page 50:

After Manuel's death, the actual number of ships and sailors under the megaduke had declined significantly, and the sailors tended to consist of unreliable foreigners.

1987, John V. A. Fine, Jr., The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest, page 35:

(historical, military) The commander in chief of the Byzantine navy.


Madam

The conſtant queſtion, upon her offering to ſtir abroad, was, where are you going Madam? To ſee the King my papa, replied the Princeſs. That cannot be Madam. No? why ſo? It is not the Etiquette. — And thus, if ſhe had a mind to viſit any of the Mesdames, the king’s ſiſters or aunts, ſhe was always told, it was not the Etiquette.

1792, I. G. Rievethal, Lectures Intended for the Instruction and Amusement of Young People, Who Apply Themselves to the English Tongue, Riga: I. Fr. Hartknoch, pages 49–50:

And nowadays the Madam will blame the Worker’s Unions […] Very unnatural but the Mesdames take the girls for granted

2008, Dave M. Save, Mano a Mano—Quote, Unquote, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 423:

After two years, Madam X was busy enough to take on a partner: Madam Z, aged twenty. Both regularly scouted new marks and told Stead that ‘nurse girls’ (nannies) were the best: ‘there are any number in [the parks] every morning and all are virgins’. Selling maidenhoods was their speciality. ‘Our gentlemen want maids,’ they said, ‘not damaged articles.’ ‘Come,’ he said to the mesdames, ‘what do you say to delivering me five [girls] on Saturday next? . . . Could you deliver me a parcel of maids, for me to distribute among my friends?’ Within a fortnight, the Mesdames had supplied Stead with seven girls between the ages of fourteen and eighteen.

2012, Bridget O’Donnell, Inspector Minahan Makes a Stand: The Missing Girls of England, Picador, →ISBN:

For the Mesdames Stuart and Scaglia, finding first and maiden names has taken some archival digging, mainly because of the conventional use of ‘Madam’.

2021, Randi Margrete Selvik, Svein Gladsø, Annabella Skagen, editors, Relevance and Marginalisation in Scandinavian and European Performing Arts 1770–1860: Questioning Canons, Routledge, →ISBN:


general of the air force

en-noun

general of the air force (plural generals of the air force)

A commissioned military officer of the highest rank in the United States Air Force, NATO grade OF-10,. This rank is currently out of use.


marshal of the RAF

marshal of the RAF (plural marshals of the RAF)

(military) The highest rank in the Royal Air Force, NATO grade OF-10, currently out of use.


Pharaohess

Alternative letter-case form of pharaohess


S/Sgt.

Sgt. (plural S/Sgts. or S/Sgt.'s or S/Sgt's)

Sgt. (canonical)
S/Sgts. (plural)
S/Sgt.'s (plural)
S/Sgt's (plural)

A title added before the name of a staff sergeant.


Sgt. (plural 1/Sgts. or 1/Sgt.'s or 1/Sgt's)

sergeant first class
sergeant first class#English

A title added before the name of a sergeant first class.


Princess of Wales

Princess of Wales (plural Princesses of Wales)

Furthermore, two of the Princesses of Wales — Lady Anne Neville and Katharine of Aragon — became Queen through later marriages and were not consorts of Princes of Wales at the time of their coronations.

1983, Mary Beacock Fryer, Arthur Bousfield, Garry Toffoli, “Introduction”, in Lives of the Princesses of Wales, Toronto, Ont.: Dundurn Press, →ISBN, page 6, column 1:

A royal title given to the wife of the Prince of Wales.


buck general

(US, military slang) A brigadier general.


Foreign Secretary

Foreign Secretary (plural Foreign Secretaries)

Foreign Secretaries (plural)
without capitals (sometimes)

Philip Hammond has been appointed chancellor of the exchequer and Boris Johnson foreign secretary as Theresa May allocated the top posts in her cabinet on her first evening as prime minister.

2016 July 13, Peter Walker, “Theresa May unveils cabinet, with Hammond and Johnson in top jobs”, in The Guardian, London:

(UK politics) The British cabinet minister who heads the Foreign Office and is responsible for Britain's relations and dealings with other countries. Official full title: Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs.


Ms. President

The honorific used in addressing a female president


Mister President

Honorific used in addressing a president, either male or female.


Presidentress

She was more than America’s “first, First Lady” and “Presidentress,” she was an incredible force for good. […] Together, but perhaps not alone, they merit the title of one of America’s greatest Presidents and Presidentresses.

2020, Rodney K. Smith, Dolley and James Madison: An Unlikely Love Story that Saved America, Outskirts Press, →ISBN, page 111:

(politics) The title for the wife of a President, a First Lady.


Mrs. President

The honorific used in addressing a the wife of a President, a First Lady; the companion of Mr. President.


quinquagenary

/kwɪŋˈkwæd͡ʒəˌnɛɹi/

/ˌkwɪŋkwəˈd͡ʒɛnəɹi/

From Latin quīnquāgēnārius (“containing 50”), either directly or via French quinquagénaire, from Latin quīnquāgēnus (“50 each”) + -ārius (“-ary”), from quīnquāgintā (“five tens, fifty”). Cognate with quinquagenarian and quingenary.

Synonym of quinquagenarian: Of or related to fiftysomethings.


base chief

chief petty officer
chief petty officer#English

(Canada, military, Royal Canadian Navy) A chief petty officer, the highest ranked warrant officer on a military base.


full colonel

A colonel, as opposed to the lower rank lieutenant colonel (which is also addressed as colonel).


drungar

Borrowed from Ancient Greek δρουγγάριος (droungários), from Late Latin drungārius, from drungus, of Gaulish [Term?] or Germanic origin.

(historical) A kind of military commander in the late Roman and Byzantine Empires, usually commanding roughly a battalion on land or a fleet on the sea.


red hat

From the red band on the caps they wore.

(UK, military, slang) A senior army officer.


Soter

From the Greek personal name Σωτήριος (Sotírios).


Injustice

We want now to build toward electing enough progressive populist reform
Congressmen and senators that we can lead to the impeachment of the
illegitimate Bush and Cheney and the Three Chief Injustices of the Supreme
Kangaroo Court, Herr Rhinequest and his lap dogs, Scalia and Thomas.

2000 December 15, pn...@takiweb.com, “[RHETORIC] You don't lick 'em by joining 'em”, in alt.thebird (Usenet):

Tell Chief Injustice Rehnquist to shove it right up his activist,
goose-stepping, shriveled up ass.

2002 March 1, CUE - CARD BUSH, “Chief Justice Rehnquist requests Indian woman take off head-wrap”, in alt.politics (Usenet):

In my view, the tenure of the thirty-seventh Chief Injustice of India
Konakuppakatil Gopinathan Balakrishnan, also known as K. G.
Balakrishnan, which lasted from January 14 2007 and ended on May 12
2010, was the darkest age in the history of Justice and Jurisprudence
in India.

2010 December 29, and/or www.mantra.com/jai, “Chief Injustice of India K. G. Balakrishnan in Sonia-stricken Bharat - V. Sundaram”, in alt.politics (Usenet):

(humorous, derogatory) Justice (title of a justice of court), seen as being unjust.


colonel general

colonel general (plural colonel generals)

(military) A general officer's rank in some nations' militaries, corresponding to the rank of either a lieutenant general or full general in the United States rank system.

գեներալ-գնդապետ

a general officer's rank in some nations' militaries


Cosmocrat

He chose, on the contrary, to be installed as World-Ruler and Cosmocrat at the completion of a mission of self-humbling and lowly obedience unto death.

1971, John G. Gibbs, Creation and Redemption: A Study in Pauline Theology, Page 83


posadnik

Borrowed from Russian поса́дник (posádnik).

(historical) a mayor in some East Slavic cities, towns, and oblasts.


Grand Lama

It was through this person, whose family held the office of high priest to the kings of Thibet for ten generations, that the succession of the ancient Buddhist patriarchs was continued, and that of Grand Lamas commenced; and it was also since his time that Lamaism, or reformed Buddhism, became the common religion of all Mongols.

1857, M. L'Abbé [Évariste Régis] Huc, Christianity in China, Tartary and Thibet, London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, page 286:

The Buddhist natives of Tibet hold the grand Lama to be always the same person, the same Buddha, only re-incarnated or renovated, in a new mundane case or body; and Jesus Christ was considered by some Christians to be a renewed incarnation of both Adam and Noah; and this was one of the reasons for the careful setting forth of His pedigree in the New Testament.

1887, Marie [Sinclair], Countess of Caithness, The Mystery of the Ages Contained in the Secret Doctrine of All Religions, 3rd edition, London: C. L. H. Wallace, page 368:

The Tibetans believe that when a Grand Lama dies, his soul is reincarnated in a child born at about the time of his death.

1947 April, Ethel N. Brown, “Lamaism”, in The Green Caldron, volume 16, number 4, Urbana, I.L.: University of Illinois, →OCLC, page 25:

At that time, Ladakh was an independent kingdom under the suzerainty of the Grand Lamas of Tibet.

1991, Jagmohan [Malhotra], My Frozen Turbulence in Kashmir, New Delhi […]: Allied Publishers Limited, page 68:


Great Lama

These scarves are of various descriptions. The longest and the best ones are presented to the great lamas, high officials, and to other personages; they carry respect according to their quality, colour and length.

1902, Sarat Chandra Das, “ཁ་བཏགས kha-ḇtags̠”, in A Tibetan-English Dictionary With Sanskrit Synonyms, Calcutta: Bengal Secretariat Book Depôt, page 128:

Having forded the river, they passed under this town up a little cross-valley, when they reached Deshi-ribgyal where the great lama was residing. The date was November 8th, 1774.

1904, Graham Sandberg, The Exploration of Tibet, Its History and Particulars From 1623 to 1904, Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co, page 105:

Many Easterners persist in regarding Fuller's appointment to this high office as somewhat comparable to the selection of a Dalai Lama, the great religious ruler in Tibet. When the Great Lama dies, the Buddhist authorities select his successor from the children in the country born at the time of his death, into one of whom his spirit has supposedly entered.

1950, Willard L[eroy] King, Melville Weston Fuller: Chief Justice Of The United States 1888–1910, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, page 98:

Kircher, following Grueber, states that there were two kings of Tibet. One of these is called the 'Deva' — i.e. the then regent. The other is the 'Great Lama', who resides in a citadel where he is 'removed from the bother of all extraneous affairs and enjoys leisure in the secret solitudes of his palace'.

2008, Alexander Norman, Holder of the White Lotus: The Lives of the Dalai Lama, London: Little, Brown, →ISBN, page 246:


Lord High Chancellor

(politics, UK) The official title of the Lord Chancellor.


Siqatul Islam

Derived from Classical Persian ثِقَتُ الْاِسْلَام or ثِقَةُ الْاِسْلَام (siqatu l-islām), from Arabic ثِقَة (ṯiqa) + الإِسْلَام (al-ʔislām).

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ثِقَتُ الْاِسْلَام

Classical Persian ثِقَتُ الْاِسْلَام

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ثِقَتُ الْاِسْلَام

(Shia Islam) a title below ayatollah, one who has explicitly been trusted to narrate fatwas.


Druk Gyalpo

/ˈdɹʊk ˈɡjɑːl.pəʊ/

Borrowed from Dzongkha and Tibetan འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་པོ ('brug rgyal po, literally “Dragon King”).

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འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་པོ

The Druk Gyalpos preferred to deal directly with the district officers rather than through an intermediate-level official. By the time of the second Druk Gyalpo the Pönlop title had come to be used more as an honorary designation of rank for powerful members of the royal family but had no specific administrative functions or powers attached thereto.

1977 January 1, Leo E. Rose, The Politics of Bhutan, →ISBN, page 184:

The Druk Gyalpo—the king—is both head of state and head of government. In the process of coming to power, the first Druk Gyalpo, Ugyen Wangchuck, who reigned from 1907 to 1926, unified the nation, established friendly relations with Britain, and set his dynasty's political agenda.

2008 January 1, Ramesh Chandra Bisht, International Encyclopaedia of Himalayas (5 Vols.), →ISBN, page 143:

At exactly 8:31 a.m., former King Jigme Singye Wangchuck, 52, placed the Raven Crown on the head of his son, 28-year-old Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck, giving him the title of Druk Gyalpo, or Dragon King.

2008 November 6, Gavin Rabinowitz, “Bhutan celebrates coronation of new king”, in The Independent, archived from the original on 2019-09-20:

Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck
King of Bhutan


Je Khenpo

Borrowed from Dzongkha and Tibetan རྗེ་མཁན་པོ (rje mkhan po, literally “Chief Abbot”).


His Imperial Highness

(formal) A title of respect for male emperors.


Her Imperial Highness

(formal) A title of respect for empresses.