peeragen.

Brit.

/ˈpɪərɪdʒ/, U.S.

/ˈpɪrɪdʒ/

Forms: see peer n. and adj. and -age suffix.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: peer n., -age suffix.

Etymology: < peer n. + -age suffix. Compare earlier parage n.

I. A class or rank of nobility.

1. The body of peers; peers as a class.

a. In the United Kingdom.

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society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > lord or lady > [noun] > peer or lord of parliament > collectively

lords1394

peerage1454

1454 Rolls of Parl. V. 242/1 Due and humble obeissaunce..I owe to doo unto the Kyng..and to you the Perage of this lande.

1658 T. Burton Diary (1828) II. 428 The excluding of the old peerage, which have right and are a considerable party.

1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 8 Having so great an Influence upon the Body of the Peerage, that [etc.].

1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. ii. 157 A bill passed the house of lords, and was countenanced by the then ministry, for limiting the number of the peerage.

1800 (title) An armorial of the extinct and dormant peerage of England.

1848 W. M. Thackeray Bk. Snobs xxi. 79 We have said Bull knows nothing: he knows the birth, arms, and pedigree of all the peerage.

1861 Cornhill Mag. May 543 There is only one modern instance of a sovereign raising an unmarried lady to a place in the peerage out of pure gallantry.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 61/2 The crown can also call the peerage out of abeyance at any moment.

1991 Parl. Hist. 10 141 The proxy books are a remarkably rich source for ascertaining the political attitudes of the peerage.

b. In France. Now historical.

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society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > lord or lady > [noun] > peer or lord of parliament > who possessed territory in France > body of peers in France

peerage1667

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 586 When Charlemain with all his Peerage fell By Fontarabbia.

1834 New Monthly Mag. 42 42 Even the peerage of France was beginning to republicanize.

1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. II. xv. 183 The very limited peerage which in France co~existed with an enormous mass of privileged nobility.

1944 Econ. Jrnl. 54 98 Antoine Sylvain de C...was raised to the French peerage by Louis Philippe with the title of Baron de Ballyheigue.

1990 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 4 Nov. 13/1 Max Beerbohm created the Duke of Dorset,..his British titles were innumerable, and he was in addition a prince of the Holy Roman Empire and a duke in the peerage of France.

c. gen. The nobility, the aristocracy; a group of people or things of the highest rank.

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society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > [noun]

optimacy1579

aristocracy1651

great world1699

peerage1725

well-connected1788

governing class1795

patriciate1795

well-connected1831

caste1842

(the) salt of the earth1842

the leisured class(es1848

japonicadom1851

countyocracy1859

masterclass1861

proprietariat1872

four hundred1888

the Establishment1923

gratin1934

power élite1942

U1954

upper1955

topside1958

1725 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. i. 355 Convoke the Peerage [Gk. ἥρωας Ἀχαιοὺς], and the Gods attest.

1814 J. Taylor Inq. into Princ. & Policy of Govt. of U.S. i. 9 The peerage of knowledge or abilities..can no longer be collected and controlled in the shape of a noble order.

a1854 H. Reed Lect. Brit. Poets (1857) vi. 229 The peerage of Pandemonium stood mute in expectation of Satan's voice.

1886 T. Hardy Mayor of Casterbridge I. xx. 257 He was not to be numbered among the aldermen—that Peerage of burghers—as he had expected to be.

1995 Canad. Forum Apr. 42/1 Each year spawns new issue from the CanLit peerage.

a. The title or rank of peer or peeress; the condition of being a peer or peeress. Also figurative.

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society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > lord or lady > [noun] > peer or lord of parliament > rank or condition of peer

peership1577

peerdom1603

peerage1648

peerhood1869

1648 W. Prynne Plea for Lords C By vertue of their Peerage, Baronries, and Offices.

1671 F. Philipps Regale Necessarium 434 The Viscounts, a Title no longer ago than the Reign of King Henry the sixth,..turned into a Dignity Titular, or Peerage.

1692 R. L'Estrange Fables clxxxviii. 158 When a Reasonable Soul descends..to Abandon the Whole Man to the Sensuality of Brutal Satisfactions he forfeits his Peerage, and the very Privilege of his Character and Creation.

1718 Mem. Life J. Kettlewell ii. §56. 175 To this they Pleaded the Benefit of their Peerage.

1771 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. lxvii. 308 My humble congratulations upon the glorious success of peerages and pensions, so lavishly distributed.

1808 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 295 Showered down upon this happy courtling..two pensions, two Irish titles, and a British peerage.

1841 Sir R. Peel in Croker Corr. II. 410 The satisfaction of answering a letter which..does not apply for a baronetage or a peerage.

1885 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 458/2 The peerage differs from nobility strictly so called, in which the hereditary privileges..pass on to all the descendants of the person first created or..acknowledged as noble.

1924 R. S. Rait Parl. Scotl. 286 The eldest sons of Scottish peers..were known as ‘Masters’, a courtesy description still in use where a Scottish peerage has no second title.

1995 New Statesman & Society 24 Nov. 5/2 The politics of the hereditary principle will move centre-stage as soon as Labour publishes its plans to abolish hereditary peerages.

†b. The territory or fief of a peer. Obsolete.

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the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > real or immovable property > land > land owned or occupied by specific class of person

cotlanda1150

knighttec1380

lairdship1397

thanage14..

marchionatc1449

pittancery1519

marquesya1525

marquisdom1530

marquisatea1544

peership1594

peerdom1611

vavasory1611

thane-landa1641

marquisshipa1680

starosty1681

freedom1752

peerage1759

pollam1765

senatory1804

squireship1824

majorat1827

dukery1837

patroonship1848

squatment1860

1759 W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. vii, in Hist. Wks. (1813) I. 539 Many of the abbeys and priories had been erected into temporal peerages.

3. Also with capital initial. A book containing a list of the peers and peeresses of a country, with their genealogy, history, connections, titles, etc. Also in extended use.

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society > communication > book > kind of book > reference book > [noun] > directories

peerage1766

court-guide1814

blue book1822

stud book1834

peerage book1843

social register1886

society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > lord or lady > [noun] > peer or lord of parliament > book containing list of

peerage1766

peerage book1843

Burke1848

1709 A. Collins (title) The Peerage of England.]

1766 A. Jacob (title) A complete English Peerage, containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of the Peers of this Realm, together with the different branches of each family.

1856 G. J. Whyte-Melville Kate Coventry xvii His name was in the Peerage.

1884 Bookseller 5 Apr. 356/2 ‘Debrett’ is not only a Peerage, it is a Baronetage, a Knightage, and a Companionage.

1892 Spectator 23 Jan. 115 That singular necropolitan peerage, the death-list of the Times.

1909 H. G. Wells Tono-Bungay (U.K. ed.) i. i. 16 There was an old peerage and a Crockford together with the books of recipes.

1951 N. Mitford Blessing i. viii. 86 I subscribe to your peerage, such a beautiful book.

1987 Times (Nexis) 20 May Peskett's Peerage could soon be joining the ranks of Burkes and de Bretts on the book shelves of Britain's aristocrats and their followers.

†II. The condition of being an equal.

4. A state of equality. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > [noun]

comparison1340

evennessa1398

evenhead?a1400

equipollencec1430

pareil?c1450

equalityc1460

comparation1483

egalness1526

equalness1530

equivalency1535

eveningc1540

equivalencea1542

indifferency1569

owelty1579

coequality1583

mateship1593

equal1596

adequation1605

parity1609

parility1610

matchableness1611

equipollency1623

equiparance1624

egality1628

equipage1633

comparitya1635

omniparity1635

peership1641

exequation1656

equipoise1658

equipotency1658

countervalue1660

adequateness1664

commensurablenessa1676

peerage1681

égalité1794

peerdom1891

1681 J. Flavell Method of Grace xiv. 279 He had a Peerage, or equality with his Father in glory.

Compounds

C1.

† peerage blood n. Obsolete

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1736 R. Savage Volunteer Laureat for 1736 in Gentleman's Mag. 6 100/1 No—trust to honour! that you ne'er will stain From peerage blood, which fires your filial vein.

peerage book n.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > book > kind of book > reference book > [noun] > directories

peerage1766

court-guide1814

blue book1822

stud book1834

peerage book1843

social register1886

society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > lord or lady > [noun] > peer or lord of parliament > book containing list of

peerage1766

peerage book1843

Burke1848

1843 Times 17 Jan. 7/3 Captain Cauty complained of his great losses by assisting the aristocracy... Mr. Commissioner Fonblanque: Then you should certainly keep a special peerage book.

1846 N. Amer. Rev. July 166 It is not often that a nobleman born leaves much trace of his existence, out of the pages of a peerage-book.

1890 F. W. O. Ward 'Twixt Kiss & Lip 435 I am a merchant Prince, if peerage-books say no.

1988 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 11 Feb. 14/1 Also available are foreign telephone directories, peerage books and a copy of the catalogue for the Newbery Library of Genealogy in Chicago.

peerage-maker n.

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a1823 J. Penney Linlithgowshire (1832) 90 (note) This peerage-maker, is however, mistaken.

1864 Littell's Living Age 4 June 475/2 The peerage-maker tells us how Lord Lisle was killed, and how Lord Berkeley's men kept the field.

C2.

Peerage Bill n. now historical a bill of 1719 (defeated in the House of Commons) which was designed to limit the number of peers in the House of Lords.

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1719 S. T. (title) An account of the conduct of the ministers with relation to the Peerage-Bill: in a letter to a friend in the country.

1876 T. Keightley Hist. Eng. 458 The object of Sunderland, with whom the peerage-bill originated, was to gratify the spleen of the king against the prince of Wales, with whom he was at enmity.

1993 Eng. Hist. Rev. 108 472 Jones's own essay, an excellent, convincing analysis of the politics and social tensions underlying the Peerage Bills of 1719.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	peerage
释义	peeragen. Brit. /ˈpɪərɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈpɪrɪdʒ/ Forms: see peer n. and adj. and -age suffix. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: peer n., -age suffix. Etymology: < peer n. + -age suffix. Compare earlier parage n. I. A class or rank of nobility. 1. The body of peers; peers as a class. a. In the United Kingdom. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > lord or lady > [noun] > peer or lord of parliament > collectively lords1394 peerage1454 1454 Rolls of Parl. V. 242/1 Due and humble obeissaunce..I owe to doo unto the Kyng..and to you the Perage of this lande. 1658 T. Burton Diary (1828) II. 428 The excluding of the old peerage, which have right and are a considerable party. 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 8 Having so great an Influence upon the Body of the Peerage, that [etc.]. 1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. ii. 157 A bill passed the house of lords, and was countenanced by the then ministry, for limiting the number of the peerage. 1800 (title) An armorial of the extinct and dormant peerage of England. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Bk. Snobs xxi. 79 We have said Bull knows nothing: he knows the birth, arms, and pedigree of all the peerage. 1861 Cornhill Mag. May 543 There is only one modern instance of a sovereign raising an unmarried lady to a place in the peerage out of pure gallantry. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 61/2 The crown can also call the peerage out of abeyance at any moment. 1991 Parl. Hist. 10 141 The proxy books are a remarkably rich source for ascertaining the political attitudes of the peerage. b. In France. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > lord or lady > [noun] > peer or lord of parliament > who possessed territory in France > body of peers in France peerage1667 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 586 When Charlemain with all his Peerage fell By Fontarabbia. View more context for this quotation 1834 New Monthly Mag. 42 42 Even the peerage of France was beginning to republicanize. 1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. II. xv. 183 The very limited peerage which in France co~existed with an enormous mass of privileged nobility. 1944 Econ. Jrnl. 54 98 Antoine Sylvain de C...was raised to the French peerage by Louis Philippe with the title of Baron de Ballyheigue. 1990 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 4 Nov. 13/1 Max Beerbohm created the Duke of Dorset,..his British titles were innumerable, and he was in addition a prince of the Holy Roman Empire and a duke in the peerage of France. c. gen. The nobility, the aristocracy; a group of people or things of the highest rank. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > [noun] optimacy1579 aristocracy1651 great world1699 peerage1725 well-connected1788 governing class1795 patriciate1795 well-connected1831 caste1842 (the) salt of the earth1842 the leisured class(es1848 japonicadom1851 countyocracy1859 masterclass1861 proprietariat1872 four hundred1888 the Establishment1923 gratin1934 power élite1942 U1954 upper1955 topside1958 1725 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. i. 355 Convoke the Peerage [Gk. ἥρωας Ἀχαιοὺς], and the Gods attest. 1814 J. Taylor Inq. into Princ. & Policy of Govt. of U.S. i. 9 The peerage of knowledge or abilities..can no longer be collected and controlled in the shape of a noble order. a1854 H. Reed Lect. Brit. Poets (1857) vi. 229 The peerage of Pandemonium stood mute in expectation of Satan's voice. 1886 T. Hardy Mayor of Casterbridge I. xx. 257 He was not to be numbered among the aldermen—that Peerage of burghers—as he had expected to be. 1995 Canad. Forum Apr. 42/1 Each year spawns new issue from the CanLit peerage. 2. a. The title or rank of peer or peeress; the condition of being a peer or peeress. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > lord or lady > [noun] > peer or lord of parliament > rank or condition of peer peership1577 peerdom1603 peerage1648 peerhood1869 1648 W. Prynne Plea for Lords C By vertue of their Peerage, Baronries, and Offices. 1671 F. Philipps Regale Necessarium 434 The Viscounts, a Title no longer ago than the Reign of King Henry the sixth,..turned into a Dignity Titular, or Peerage. 1692 R. L'Estrange Fables clxxxviii. 158 When a Reasonable Soul descends..to Abandon the Whole Man to the Sensuality of Brutal Satisfactions he forfeits his Peerage, and the very Privilege of his Character and Creation. 1718 Mem. Life J. Kettlewell ii. §56. 175 To this they Pleaded the Benefit of their Peerage. 1771 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. lxvii. 308 My humble congratulations upon the glorious success of peerages and pensions, so lavishly distributed. 1808 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 295 Showered down upon this happy courtling..two pensions, two Irish titles, and a British peerage. 1841 Sir R. Peel in Croker Corr. II. 410 The satisfaction of answering a letter which..does not apply for a baronetage or a peerage. 1885 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 458/2 The peerage differs from nobility strictly so called, in which the hereditary privileges..pass on to all the descendants of the person first created or..acknowledged as noble. 1924 R. S. Rait Parl. Scotl. 286 The eldest sons of Scottish peers..were known as ‘Masters’, a courtesy description still in use where a Scottish peerage has no second title. 1995 New Statesman & Society 24 Nov. 5/2 The politics of the hereditary principle will move centre-stage as soon as Labour publishes its plans to abolish hereditary peerages. †b. The territory or fief of a peer. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > real or immovable property > land > land owned or occupied by specific class of person cotlanda1150 knighttec1380 lairdship1397 thanage14.. marchionatc1449 pittancery1519 marquesya1525 marquisdom1530 marquisatea1544 peership1594 peerdom1611 vavasory1611 thane-landa1641 marquisshipa1680 starosty1681 freedom1752 peerage1759 pollam1765 senatory1804 squireship1824 majorat1827 dukery1837 patroonship1848 squatment1860 1759 W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. vii, in Hist. Wks. (1813) I. 539 Many of the abbeys and priories had been erected into temporal peerages. 3. Also with capital initial. A book containing a list of the peers and peeresses of a country, with their genealogy, history, connections, titles, etc. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > kind of book > reference book > [noun] > directories peerage1766 court-guide1814 blue book1822 stud book1834 peerage book1843 social register1886 society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > lord or lady > [noun] > peer or lord of parliament > book containing list of peerage1766 peerage book1843 Burke1848 1709 A. Collins (title) The Peerage of England.] 1766 A. Jacob (title) A complete English Peerage, containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of the Peers of this Realm, together with the different branches of each family. 1856 G. J. Whyte-Melville Kate Coventry xvii His name was in the Peerage. 1884 Bookseller 5 Apr. 356/2 ‘Debrett’ is not only a Peerage, it is a Baronetage, a Knightage, and a Companionage. 1892 Spectator 23 Jan. 115 That singular necropolitan peerage, the death-list of the Times. 1909 H. G. Wells Tono-Bungay (U.K. ed.) i. i. 16 There was an old peerage and a Crockford together with the books of recipes. 1951 N. Mitford Blessing i. viii. 86 I subscribe to your peerage, such a beautiful book. 1987 Times (Nexis) 20 May Peskett's Peerage could soon be joining the ranks of Burkes and de Bretts on the book shelves of Britain's aristocrats and their followers. †II. The condition of being an equal. 4. A state of equality. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > [noun] comparison1340 evennessa1398 evenhead?a1400 equipollencec1430 pareil?c1450 equalityc1460 comparation1483 egalness1526 equalness1530 equivalency1535 eveningc1540 equivalencea1542 indifferency1569 owelty1579 coequality1583 mateship1593 equal1596 adequation1605 parity1609 parility1610 matchableness1611 equipollency1623 equiparance1624 egality1628 equipage1633 comparitya1635 omniparity1635 peership1641 exequation1656 equipoise1658 equipotency1658 countervalue1660 adequateness1664 commensurablenessa1676 peerage1681 égalité1794 peerdom1891 1681 J. Flavell Method of Grace xiv. 279 He had a Peerage, or equality with his Father in glory. Compounds C1. † peerage blood n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1736 R. Savage Volunteer Laureat for 1736 in Gentleman's Mag. 6 100/1 No—trust to honour! that you ne'er will stain From peerage blood, which fires your filial vein. peerage book n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > kind of book > reference book > [noun] > directories peerage1766 court-guide1814 blue book1822 stud book1834 peerage book1843 social register1886 society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > lord or lady > [noun] > peer or lord of parliament > book containing list of peerage1766 peerage book1843 Burke1848 1843 Times 17 Jan. 7/3 Captain Cauty complained of his great losses by assisting the aristocracy... Mr. Commissioner Fonblanque: Then you should certainly keep a special peerage book. 1846 N. Amer. Rev. July 166 It is not often that a nobleman born leaves much trace of his existence, out of the pages of a peerage-book. 1890 F. W. O. Ward 'Twixt Kiss & Lip 435 I am a merchant Prince, if peerage-books say no. 1988 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 11 Feb. 14/1 Also available are foreign telephone directories, peerage books and a copy of the catalogue for the Newbery Library of Genealogy in Chicago. peerage-maker n. ΚΠ a1823 J. Penney Linlithgowshire (1832) 90 (note) This peerage-maker, is however, mistaken. 1864 Littell's Living Age 4 June 475/2 The peerage-maker tells us how Lord Lisle was killed, and how Lord Berkeley's men kept the field. C2. Peerage Bill n. now historical a bill of 1719 (defeated in the House of Commons) which was designed to limit the number of peers in the House of Lords. ΚΠ 1719 S. T. (title) An account of the conduct of the ministers with relation to the Peerage-Bill: in a letter to a friend in the country. 1876 T. Keightley Hist. Eng. 458 The object of Sunderland, with whom the peerage-bill originated, was to gratify the spleen of the king against the prince of Wales, with whom he was at enmity. 1993 Eng. Hist. Rev. 108 472 Jones's own essay, an excellent, convincing analysis of the politics and social tensions underlying the Peerage Bills of 1719. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1454
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