Word Meanings - BARONETCY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The rank or patent of a baronet.

Related words: (words related to BARONETCY)

• BARONET
  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. Note: The order was founded
• PATENT
  Open; expanded; evident; apparent; unconcealed; manifest; public; conspicuous. He had received instructions, both patent and secret. Motley. 2. Open to public perusal; -- said of a document conferring some right or privilege; as, letters patent.
• PATENTEE
  One to whom a grant is made, or a privilege secured, by patent. Bacon.
• PATENTLY
  Openly; evidently.
• BARONETAGE
  1. State or rank of a baronet. 2. The collective body of baronets.
• PATENT-HAMMERED
  Having a surface dressed by cutting with a hammer the head of which consists of broad thin chisels clamped together.
• PATENTABLE
  Suitable to be patented; capable of being patented.
• BARONETCY
  The rank or patent of a baronet.
• ERECTO-PATENT
  Having a position intermediate between erect and patent, or spreading.
• KNIGHT BARONET
  See BARONET