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The office and dignity of president; presidency. Hooker.

The office or dignity of a pretor. J. Warton

The office, rank, or character of a primate; the chief ecclesiastical station or dignity in a national church; the office or dignity of an archbishop; as, the primacy of England.

First in dignity or importance; chief; principal; as, primary planets; a matter of primary importance.

The office, dignity, or position of a primate; primacy.

First in rank, degree, dignity, authority, or importance; as, prime minister. "Prime virtues." Dryden.

The quality of being princely; the state, manner, or dignity of a prince.

The superior of a priory, and next below an abbot in dignity. Conventical, or Conventual, prior, a prior who is at the head of his own house. See the Note under Priory. -- Claustral prior, an official next in rank to the abbot in a monastery; prior of the cloisters.

The dignity, office, or government, of a prior. T. Warton.

A lady superior of a priory of nuns, and next in dignity to an abbess.

The office or dignity of a proctor; also, the term of his office. Clarendon.

by of; as, aprovident man; an animal provident of the future. And of our good and of our dignity, How provident he is. Milton.

specifically, the purple rode or mantle worn by Roman emperors as the emblem of imperial dignity; as, to put on the imperial purple. Thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and purple, and scarlet. Ex. xxvi. 1.

, to put one in fear; to put a theory in practice; to put an enemy to fight. This present dignity, In which that I have put you. Chaucer. I will put enmity between thee and the woman. Gen. iii. 15. He put no trust in his servants. Job iv. 18. When God into the hands of their deliverer Puts invincible might. Milton. In…

The state, rank, or dignity of a queen.

To bring to a higher condition or situation; to elevate in rank, dignity, and the like; to increase the value or estimation of; to promote; to exalt; to advance; to enhance; as, to raise from a low estate; to raise to office; to raise the price, and the like. This gentleman came to be raised to great titles. Clarendon.…

The office or dignity of a rajah.

Degree of dignity, eminence, or excellence; position in civil or social life; station; degree; grade; as, a writer of the first rank; a lawyer of high rank. These all are virtues of a meaner rank. Addison.

To rave in violent, high-sounding, or extravagant language, without dignity of thought; to be noisy, boisterous, and bombastic in talk or declamation; as, a ranting preacher. Look where my ranting host of the Garter comes! Shak.

al reason; real Madeira wine; real ginger. Whose perfection far excelled Hers in all real dignity. Milton.