Dii majores et minores=--Gods of a higher and lower degree.
They could not do better than elect him: and elected he was by the assembled aldermen or eldermen (majores natu) of the City.
And though in those times there might be much irregularity in issuing writs of summons, the term "majores barones" must have had an application to definite persons.
The former of these seem to be the majoresbarones of King John's Charter.
The prescription was properly in favour of the class, the majores barones generally, and as to them it was perfect, extending itself in right, if not always in fact, to every one who came within its scope.
They observe afterwards that "they have found no document before the Great Charter of John in which the term 'majores barones' has been used, though in some subsequent documents words of apparently similar import have been used.
We cannot absolutely assume any to have been, in a general sense, members of the legislature except the prelates and the majores barones.
The right of personal summons did not constitute them, for it is on majores barones, as already a determinate rank, that the right is conferred.
But if themajores et potentiores were exuberant in their manifestations of loyalty, the people were dumb.
This was certainly the case with the 'majores et potentiores' of Bruges and Ypres and Ghent in the days of Count Guy.
Thus, Firmilian speaks of "seniores et praepositi," and of the Church "ubi praesident majores natu.
His first remarkable work was his doctor’s thesis: De historicæ doctrinæ apud sophistas majores vestigiis, written in 1838.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "majores" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
