And that all sorts of tenures, held of the king or others, be turned into free and common socage; save only tenures in frank almoign, copyholds, and the honorary services of grand serjeanty.
Meantime he had been made by Sir Joshua Reynolds Honorary Secretary for Foreign Correspondence to the Royal Academy, and then Johnson recommended him to the husband of Mrs. Thrale as tutor to her girls at Streatham.
Mr. Greville may have felt that the Thrales had no business to be of the party, or Johnson may have gained the impression that Burney's old patron was anxious to play the same part, in an honorary sort of way, in regard to himself.
While, however, the primary of Alba Longa had never extended beyond giving to that city the honorary presidency of the league, making it the religious center of Latium, the leadership of Rome was of a real and substantial character.
The honorary grand inner guard on duty at the far street door, after a brief and unsuccessful struggle with unseen forces, was observed to be shoved violently aside from his post.
Beyond him to the left in the center of the stage were grouped the honorary officers of the league, flanking and supporting their chief.
As an honorary member he has presided over the deliberations of this Chamber, and his genial presence was seldom missed at our annual banquets.
Only a few months ago, at the annual meeting of this Chamber, we saw the face of our honorary member on this platform by the side of our President.
One evening, it is related, General Sherman went into a club of which he was an honorary member.
But Schindler relates that when Bernard, in preparing an announcement for the public press, added to Beethoven's name: "Honorary Member of the Academies of Arts and Sciences at Stockholm and Amsterdam and also Honorary Citizen of the R.
The society afterward elected him to honorary membership.
The honorary senators, that is, such who were not received into the council of the city by election, but by the appointment of the emperor, paid a certain sum of money upon their admission into the senate.
The fund appropriated for the carrying on of this work arises from the money which those honorary members you were pleased to add to the senate paid (or, at least, are ready to pay whenever I call upon them) for their admission.
His versions of the Oedipus of Sophocles and of the Iphigenia of Euripides were rewarded by the Hungarian Academy, of which in 1838 he was elected honorary member.
He was created an honorary aide-de-camp to the king-emperor and an honorary colonel in the British army.
He was also elected an honorary member of the Royal Academy, London, 1869, on the institution of that class.
Guest was a fellow of the Royal Society, and anhonorary member of the Society of Antiquaries.
Tenders of Honorary Degrees from Oxford and Cambridge.
The Vice-Chancellors of Oxford and Cambridge communicated to him, in the same week, their request that he would attend at the approaching Commemorations, and accept the honorary degree of Doctor in Civil Law.
They have paid me the compliment to make me an honorarymember of the corps, as my days of active service have been long over.
Moreover, the University of Constantinople, the College of Salonica, and the National Historical Society have each elected Doctor Gilman an honorary member.
The Rough Riders didn't make him an honorary member of their regiment just because he was charming and a faithful friend, but largely because they were a lot of daredevils and he was another.
The distinction, however, was certainly more anhonorary than a legal precedence.
Gilbert, the new honorary physician whom the King has appointed.
I wish to be honoraryhouse physician to your Majesty.
John Lascaris, of Imperial blood, the teacher of Hellenism in France under three kings, was an honorary member.
Among Italians, Pietro Bembo, Aleander, and Alberto Pio occupied positions of honorary distinction rather than of active industry.
To any one who knows the value and importance attached in Germany to these honorary distinctions—which we should be inclined to regard as mere trivialities—this act of the Emperor’s will convey more than any words of anger and indignation.
For this heroic act Washington praised her, gave her an honorary commission as captain and Congress voted her half pay for life.
The result was Judge Sener was elected anhonorary member of the society and the invitation was unanimously accepted.
He became corresponding member of more literary and scientific circles, and received more honorary diplomas, at home and abroad, than any other man known to history.
One died a short time ago, at a ripe old age, with the honorary LL.
He refused to go to England to take an honorary degree, Doctor of Music, offered by Cambridge University.
In 1881 the University of Breslau conferred an honorary Ph.
All the teachers were elected honorary members, and one was critic.
His reputation stood equally high on the Continent and in America, and he had been elected an honorary member of several foreign societies.
As an amusing traveller and diligent antiquarian, however, we can do Mr. Squier full honor, and were glad to see the just compliment lately paid to him in London, when our Antiquarian Society elected him an honorary member.
The sender was a legend to all “Canal” Marines, Honorary U.
Waters, who had been on the Committee, having accepted the office of honorary secretary, vice Rev.
Ferrier moved that the foregoing be appointed a committee to carry out the arrangements for establishing the corps, with power to appoint a sub-committee; and that Colonel Beckham be requested to act as honorary secretary.
Cufaude to act as honorary secretary to the Committee.
It may be added that the St. George's Chess Club had been installed at the Polytechnic Institution some years before Mr. Staunton joined them, as an honorary member, in compliment to his rising reputation.
A good story is told of Perigal, who, for a long period, officiated as the Honorary Secretary.
He was elected honorary member of the club; he had been introduced by the abbe.
In this case, shall a secure port be stipulated, and the pecuniary and honorary considerations granted?
Certain pecuniary considerations to some, andhonorary military distinctions to other influential chiefs, on their taking oaths of allegiance to the United States.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "honorary" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
