单词 | honorant |
释义 | honorantn. rare between the early 17th and mid 20th centuries. A person who honours or confers an honour on another. In early use also: †a servant extraordinary (see extraordinary adj. 2) (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > heraldry > herald > [noun] > servant extraordinary honorant1602 c1425 tr. J. Arderne Treat. Fistula (Sloane 6) (1910) 5 (MED) Honour is in the honorant & noȝt in the honored. 1602 W. Segar Honor Mil. & Civill iv. xxi. 237 These diuers degrees were in the Emperiall Court called Administrantes, Vacantes, and Honorarij... The same course is to be kept among the Honorantes or seruants extraordinary. 1610 W. Segar L'Envoy in J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie sig. (a)2v Made Honour onely by the Honorant. 1966 Archaeol. Rep. for 1965–6 (Soc. for Promotion Hellenic Stud.) No. 12. 38 The honorand..is a high official of the Hadrianic period. The honorant is [Τιβέριος Κλαύδι]ος Άττικός. 2005 A. Gianto in E. Cussini Journey to Palmyra 74 The characterization of the honorant and the honoree can be expanded. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1425 |
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