1 to behave as if you are better than someone and have the right to tell them what to do: --
2 a title used in front of the names of male peers and officials of very high rank: --
the Lord Chancellor
Lord Longford
3 (in the Christian religion) God or Jesus Christ: --
[ as form of address ] Lord, hear our prayer.
Praise the Lord!
4 (in some countries) a title of a man who has a specially high social rank, or the person himself --
Along with these restrictions, there was the influence of feudal lords, primarily aimed at determining social relations within the elite.
Of the thirteen synonym groups examined here, it participates in only two, 'king, lord' and 'sin, evil'.
For every other copyhold tenement a fine at the lords will is due on admission.
So here the lord of the manor took possession of local wood pasture zones, for a manorial centre and for a deer park.
You can perhaps give the author the hot tip to actualize it, as we write the year of the lord 1989.
There, before her preferred audience of assembled lords, gentlemen, ladies and others, the wedding ceremonials were played out with maximum splendour and magnificence.
But earlier, between the ninth and twelfth centuries, warriors and powerful lords were also sometimes held up as models of sanctity.
Its membership of three hundred included landlords, learned law lords, and university professors.
