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treat exceedingly. [Archaic] Your rhymes assassinate our fame. Dryden. Such usage as your honorable lords Afford me, assassinated and betrayed. Milton.

or adopt. The sixth was a young knight of lesser renown and lower rank, assumed into that honorable company. Sir W. Scott.

A festival in honor of the ascent of the Virgin Mary into heaven.

A stain or staining; state of being in dishonor or condemnation. [Obs.] He lived from all attainder of suspect. Shak. Bill of attainder, a bill brought into, or passed by, a legislative body, condemning a person to death or outlawry, and attainder, without judicial sentence.

To accuse; to charge with a crime or a dishonorable act. [Archaic]

A additional charge to a coat of arms, given as a mark of honor. Cussans.

s, artifices will not avail the sinner in the day of judgment. O, what avails me now that honor high ! Milton.

A song or dance in honor of Bacchus.

A feast or an orgy in honor of Bacchus.

In a state of restraint or hindrance. The Lord hath kept thee back from honor. Numb. xxiv. 11.

From a better to a worse state, as from honor to shame, from religion to sin. The work went backward. Dryden.

A title of respect or honor given to European officers in East Indian state papers, and colloquially, and among the natives, to distinguished officials and other important personages.

A barbarous, cruel, or brutal action; an outrage. A heinous barbarism . . . against the honor of marriage. Milton.

nd singer, as among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men.

An agreement or stipulation; mutual pledge. And whon your honors mean to solemnize The bargain of your faith. Shak.

A dignity or degree of honor next below a baron and above a knight, having precedency of all orders of knights except those of the Garter. It is the lowest degree of honor that is hereditary. The baronets are commoners.

ration); to traffic; to truck; -- sometimes followed by away; as, to barter away goods or honor.

Not held by honorable service; as, a base estate, one held by services not honorable; held by villenage. Such a tenure is called base, or low, and the tenant, a base tenant. Base fee, formerly, an estate held at the will of the lord; now, a qualified fee. See note under Fee, n., 4. -- Base metal. See under Metal.…

In a base manner; with despicable meanness; dishonorably; shamefully.

A Turkish title of honor, now written pasha. See Pasha.