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▪ I. noˈbilitate, pa. pple. and ppl. a. Sc. Now rare or Obs.
Also 6–7 -at.
[ad. L. nōbilitāt-us, pa. pple. of nōbilitāre: see next.]
Ennobled; distinguished, renowned.
1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. Prol. 12 Farther it is nobilitate in fyne wole and quhyt. Ibid. 28 Westwarde lyes monteith, nobilitat and mekle commendet throuch the name of sik cheise. 1632Lithgow Trav. x. 499 A fruitfull, populous, and nobilitat planure. a1670Spalding Troub. Chas. I (1850) I. 105 The Lord Ogiluy..being narrest the stock..and nobilitat before him. 1689tr. Buchanan's De Jure Reg. 56 [He] thought him to be Nobilitate by the Slaughter of a Tyrant. 1722Nisbet Her. I. 76 The Branches of the principal Family of Douglass, which were nobilitate.
▪ II. nobilitate, v.|nəʊˈbɪlɪteɪt|
Now rare or Obs.
[f. ppl. stem of L. nōbilitāre, f. nōbilis noble.]
= ennoble v. in various senses.
1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. 52 b, Sir kyng it is your pleasure..to nobilitate this place. 1577Hellowes tr. Gueuara's Chron. 58 The greatest of Traianes exercise was, to augment and nobilitate his armie and knighthood. 1598R. Haydocke tr. Lomazzo i. 6 There are two things, which doe specially dignifie and nobilitate a man. c1610Sir C. Heydon Astrol. Disc. (1650) 69 Nature hath singularly nobilitated all the Aspects in the Motions of Saturn and Jupiter. 1665J. Webb Stone-Heng (1725) 3 A glorious Shew of Statues and Inscriptions..nobilitated the Memory of famous Citizens. 1699T. Boston Art Man-fishing (1900) 44 My heart is nobilitated and tramples on the world.
b. To raise (one) to noble rank.
1538[see below]. 1669in Macfarlane Genealog. Collect. (1900) 65 He nobilitate Kenneth, making him by Patent Lord Kintail. 1724J. Macky Journ. thro. Eng. (ed. 4) I. i. 11 The Family..was Nobilitated into two Branches by King Charles II. 1763Chron. in Ann. Reg. 62 William, lord Borthwick, was nobilitated in the year 1424.
Hence noˈbilitated ppl. a.; noˈbilitating vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1538Leland Itin. (1769) VI. 38 The firste nobilitating of the Pophams, as it is saide, was by Matilde Emperes. 1729E. Erskine Serm. Wks. 1871 I. 442 This law coming out of Zion is a dignifying or nobilitating law. 1753Scots Mag. Nov. 530/1 The..nobilitating of rich commoners. 1791State P. in Ann. Reg. 188* The law..which subjects all newly-nobilitated persons to certain civil restrictions. |