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ally applied to the rank and dignity of sovereigns. The Lord reigneth; he is clothed with majesty. Ps. xciii. 1. No sovereign has ever represented the majesty of great state with more dignity and grace. Macaulay.

See Leze majesty.

Any crime committed against the sovereign power.

Pertaining to a walk. [R.] The princess of whom his majesty had an ambulatory view in his travels. Sir H. Wotton.

some office, dignity, or the like, instead of the proper name of the person; as when his majesty is used for a king, or when, instead of Aristotle, we say, the philosopher; or, conversely, the use of a proper name instead of an appellative, as when a wise man is called a Solomon, or an eminent orator a Cicero.…

Any one out of an indefinite number of persons; anyone; any person. His Majesty could not keep any secret from anybody. Macaulay.

Ignatius, and Hermas; to these Barnabas has sometimes been added. -- Apostolic king (or majesty), a title granted by the pope to the kings of Hungary on account of the extensive propagation of Christianity by St. Stephen, the founder of the royal line. It is now a title of the emperor of Austria in right of the thron…

Moral or political duty or obligation. I love your majesty According to my bond, nor more nor less. Shak.

To feign or counterfeit. "Borrowed hair." Spenser. The borrowed majesty of England. Shak.

Made obligatory; imposed as a duty; binding. I am much bounden to your majesty. Shak.

p, as the bristles of an angry hog; -- sometimes with up. Now for the bare-picked bone of majesty Doth dogged war bristle his angry crest. Shak. Boy, bristle thy courage up. Shak.

Of or pertaining to Great Britain; British; as, her Britannic Majesty.

of fluid displaced. Such are buoyancies or displacements of the different classes of her majesty's ships. Eng. Cyc.

Security; guaranty; bail. [R.] The Parliament would yet give his majesty sufficient caution that the war should be prosecuted. Clarendon.

To envelop; to clothe, as with a mantle or cloak. And with the majesty of darkness round Covers his throune. Milton. All that beauty than doth cover thee. Shak.

To nurse or train in infancy. He that hath been cradled in majesty will not leave the throne to play with beggars. Glanvill.

Hurtful; pernicious. [R.] That it be not demageable unto your royal majesty. Hakluit.

with more than ordinary elegance; to array; to adorn; to embellish. Deck thyself now with majesty and excellency. Job xl. 10. And deck my body in gay ornaments. Shak. The dew with spangles decked the ground. Dryden.

is station. Hallam. If your master Would have a queen his beggar, you must tell him, That majesty, to keep decorum, must No less beg than a kingdom. Shak.

ll with discontent and unfriendliness. They had attempted to disaffect and discontent his majesty's late army. Clarendon.