heraldryn.
/ˈhɛrəldri/, /ˈhɛrl̩dri/, U.S. /ˈhɛrəldri/ 1. figurative.1641 ‘Smectymnuus’ Vindic. Answer Hvmble Remonstr. vi. 88 As for the Herauldry in blazoning Aerius for an heretick..We referre to former answeres.a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) iv. ii. 66 All those Discourses which have been written of the Soul's Heraldry, will not blazon it so well to us as itself will doe.a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) ix. i. 381 Titles of Worldly honour in Heavens heraldry are but only Tituli nominales.1823 J. Baillie in Coll. of Poems 263 Watt, who in heraldry of science ranks With those to whom men owe high meed of thanks.† b. Heraldic practice or regulation. Obsolete.† c. Heraldic title, rank, or precedence. Hence, ‘An old and obsolete abuse of buying and selling precedence in the paper of causes for hearing’ ( Wharton's Law Lex. 1883). Obsolete.
a. The art or science of a herald; now, esp. the art or science of blazoning armorial bearings and of settling the right of persons to bear arms or certain bearings; in connection with which it deals with the tracing and recording of pedigrees, and deciding of questions of precedence. canting heraldry, that which deals with canting arms: see canting adj.2 5.
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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > heraldry > [noun]
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1572 J. Bossewell Wks. Armorie Ded. Such one was of late specially in this kinde of Herehaultry a very fruteful and worthy writer, master Gerard Leigh.
1664 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders (new ed.) i. sig. e5 The Antiquity and Origine of Herauldry.
1668 J. Denham Poems 183 'Twas no false Heraldry, when madness drew Her Pedigree from those, who too much knew.
1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) I. xii. 77 You may look back..to an illustrious pedigree, in which heraldry has not left a single good quality upon record.
1830 T. B. Macaulay Moore's Life Byron in Ess. (1887) 160 Is poetry, like heraldry, mere matter of arbitrary regulation?
1872 J. Ruskin Eagle's Nest §47 The most brilliant, and..most practically effective of the arts—Heraldry.
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1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. i. 86 Hamlet..Did slay this Fortenbrasse, Who by a seale compact well ratified, by law And heraldrie, did forfeit with his life all those His lands.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > honour > [noun] > precedence > heraldic
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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > heraldry > [noun] > heraldic title, rank, or precedence
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a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) ii. iii. 260 You are more sawcie with Lordes and honourable personages, then the Commission of your birth and vertue giues you Heraldry . View more context for this quotation
1742 R. North & M. North Life F. North 204 Nothing sat heavier upon his Spirits, than a great Arrear of Business..for he knew well that, from thence, there sprang up a Trade, in the Register's Office, called Heraldry, that is buying and selling Precedence in the Paper of Causes.
2. A heraldic emblazonment or device; a collection of heraldic devices; armorial bearings; heraldic symbolism. Also figurative.
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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > [noun] > armorial bearings or coat of arms
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coat-arms1623
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1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. B2v This Herauldry in Lucrece face was seene, Argued by Beauties red and Vertues white. View more context for this quotation
1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet ii. ii. 459 Pirrus..Hath now his blacke and grimme complexion smeered With Heraldry more dismall.
1709 J. Swift Baucis & Philemon 6 The Ballads..high in Order plac'd, describe The Heraldry of ev'ry Tribe.
1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc viii. 37 Known by the buckler's blazon'd heraldry, Salisbury lay dead.
1870 F. R. Wilson Archit. Surv. Churches Lindisfarne 76 A series of panels filled alternately with heraldry and figures.
1889 Cent. Mag. Dec. 237/2 Nature soon covers the work of man in wood or stone with a carpet of moss and her own heraldry of lichens.
3. The office of herald or official messenger.
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society > communication > information > message > [noun] > messenger > office of
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postship1545
heraldry1593
messengership1611
peonage1900
the world > movement > progressive motion > order of movement > going first or in front > [noun] > one who goes first > as a harbinger or messenger > position of
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harbingership1613
society > communication > information > announcing or proclaiming > [noun] > announcer or proclaimer > herald > official > office of
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heraldship1612
1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie i. xv. 89 The lawe of Heraldrie in warre is positiue.
1834 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pilgrims of Rhine xix. 179 Fulfilling the heraldry of God, to each Star he appointed the duty and the charge.
1835 E. Bulwer-Lytton Rienzi II. iii. i. 4 I trust my next heraldry will be to a more friendly court.
4. The action of announcing and ushering in with pomp and ceremony; heraldic pomp.
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society > communication > information > announcing or proclaiming > [noun] > announcing as herald
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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > heraldry > [noun] > heraldic pomp
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1645 J. Milton Upon Circumcision in Poems 21 He who with all Heav'ns heraldry whileare Enter'd the world, now bleeds to give us ease.
1816 S. T. Coleridge Christabel ii. 33 He would proclaim it far and wide With trump and solemn heraldry.
1840 J. S. Mill Diss. & Disc. (1875) I. 427 A writer..announced, with all the pomp and heraldry of triumphant genius, a discovery.
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