The rim projects slightly, and in panels reserved in the border are the honorific marks.
In other pieces the honorific marks are introduced in the design, or appear upon the neck of vases, or are so disposed as to constitute the chief ornaments.
These productions frequently bear certain honorific marks, from which their destination can be inferred.
In all three dialects the verb makes little or no distinction of number, but instead there is a distinction between non-honorific andhonorific forms.
Finally, in the first person the non-honorific and honorific forms depending on the subject are the same, and are also identical with those forms of the second person in which the subject is honorific.
Forms in which the object is non-honorific may be, as in the case of nouns, short, long or redundant.
A title or honorific name for Gonds and one by which they are often known.
An honorifictitle for Darzis or tailors, and Muhammadan barbers.
Risley, is the common term employed by the Kols for the headman of a village, whence it has been adopted as an honorific title for the tribe.
An honorific title of Gonds and Savars in Saugor and Damoh.
An honorific title of Thanapati and of Uriya Brahmans.
Their usual honorific titles at present are Dora (Sahib or Lord) and Naidu.
But if the name happen to have three syllables, the honorific "O" is not used.
Instead of the prefix, an honorificsuffix is appended to the yobina,--the suffix ko.
I have said that the honorific "O" is placed before the yobina of women of the middle and lower classes.
If a king calls himself by some strange honorific title, it is no assistance to understanding the meaning of it that a score of successors should do the same.
A more serious difficulty is, that, as it was customary to apply the same honorific titles to both a god and the king, it is often uncertain to which the original meant to apply them.
It is, therefore, to be hoped that no one will build any far-reaching theories upon logical deductions from the translations given here or elsewhere of such honorific titles.
The most notable of these battles, whereby he won his honorific epithet of Nevsky (i.
It is a purely honorific distinction representing the admiralship of the islands and Ocean Sea, conferred on the discoverer by the Catholic sovereigns, Ferdinand and Isabella.
Sun Yat-sen, known by his honorific pseudonym Chung Shan, was buried in one of the most magnificent tombs of modern times.
These bronzes take the form of ritual or honorific vessels, and the archaic shapes used in the service of the prehistoric religion of the country are repeated and copied with slight changes in decoration or detail to the present day.
It is now of more honorific than actual importance.
He never hurrahed at foot-ball contests, nor did he dress himself in honorific garments, nor stupify himself at "smokers.
Footnote 4: O is the honorific placed before female names of not more than two syllables.
The idea of substitution is widespread among all early religions, and is found in honorific as well as piacular rites.
The Fishermen speak in elaborately deferential and honorific language.
Haku throughout omits the honorific turns of speech which civility demands.
But the common bear, as a honorific totem or crest, might be assumed by anybody, whatever his clan.
Each totem clan had a certain number of honorific totems or crests, and these might be assumed by any member of the clan who fulfilled the required conditions; but they could not be acquired by members of another clan.
Initiatory rites at the adoption of a honorific totem.
The honorific totems of the Carrier Indians may perhaps correspond in some measure to the sub-totems or multiplex totems of the Australians.
The honorifictitle of the Gowaris is Dhare, which is said to mean 'One who keeps cattle.
The term Bhoi, which literally means a bearer in Telugu, is used as a synonym for the Gonds and also as an honorific title.
Risley states, is the common term employed by the Kols for the headman of a village, and has come into general use as an honorific title, as the Santals call themselves Manjhi, the Gonds Bhoi, and the Bhangis and other sweepers Mehtar.
The Hindu term Bhoi or bearer is now commonly applied to the Gonds, and is considered by them as an honorific name or title.
The Korwas have thehonorific title of Manjhi, also used by the Santals.
They do not address any relative or caste-man by his name if he is older than themselves, but use the term of relationship to a relative and to others the honorific title of Gaontia.
The functions of a rabbi were purely honorific in character, dignifying, and unrelated in kind to' mercantile goods, for which one receives pay.
Presumably this plural ishonorific for the Honoured Mother Mahim.
It may be noted here that in speaking of these elder women Babur uses the honorific plural, a form of rare occurrence except for such women, for saintly persons and exceptionally for The supreme Khan.
This plural, unless ironical, cannot be read as honouring 'Ali; Babur uses the honorific plural most rarely and specially, e.
What is strongly against its being Babur's where otherwise it might be his, is that Mahim, as he always calls her simply, is there written of as Hazrat Walida, Royal Mother and with the honorific plural.
Recorded, in the Travancore Census Report, 1901, as an honorific title of Nayars.
Among the Canarese, and to a less extent among the Uriyas also, the word is used in an honorific sense, a custom which is difficult to account for if Dr.
But there are a few deities of whom the honorific sang-yang is used, but not batara, e.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "honorific" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
