Definition of Nobiliary

1. a. Of or pertaining to the nobility.

2. n. A history of noble families.

Definition of Nobiliary

1. Adjective. pertaining or related to nobility ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Nobiliary

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nobiliary

nobbily
nobble
nobbled
nobbler
nobblers
nobbles
nobblier
nobbliest
nobbling
nobbly
nobbut
nobby
nobelium
nobeliums
nobiletin
nobiliary (current term)
nobiliary particle
nobilified
nobilify
nobilifying
nobilissimus
nobilitate
nobilitated
nobilitating
nobilitation
nobilitations
nobilities
nobility
noble
noble-minded

Literary usage of Nobiliary

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Empire of the Tsars and the Russians by Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu (1898)
"And if the prerogatives of the territorial assemblies on some points remain behind those of the nobiliary assemblies, they are, nevertheless, ..."

2. The Empire of the Tsars and the Russians by Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu (1893)
"... though not Despoiled, it Practically Lost all its Privileges—Importance of the Prerogatives Conferred on the " nobiliary Assemblies " by Catherine II. ..."

3. Modern English by Fitzedward Hall (1873)
"Bentham, who1 modestly speaks of the word as " new, though not inexpressive."2 nobiliary, in such a phrase as ' nobiliary roll,' or ' nobiliary element of ..."

4. England: its people, polity and pursuits by Thomas Hay Sweet Escott (1881)
"On the one hand, this absence of the perpetuation of nobiliary titles of courtesy from generation to generation divests English society of much of the ..."

5. Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and by Colin MacFarquhar, George Gleig (1797)
"... nobiliary of Dau- phine, ... nobiliary of Provence. The Germans are faid to be particularly careful of th^ir ..."

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