| 单词 | her britannic majesty |
| 释义 | > as lemmasHer Britannic Majesty Of Britain; British. Chiefly in His Britannic Majesty (abbreviated H.B.M.) the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (before 1927: Ireland); similarly Her Britannic Majesty.extra-, pan-, Scoto-Britannic: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > British Isles > [adjective] > Britain BritannishOE BritishOE Britona1387 Britannical1548 Britannian1589 Britain1609 Britannic1635 pongo1944 Brit1948 1635 D. Person Varieties v. 71 So hath it divers denominations from the Coasts it bedeweth, as Britannick, Atlantick, Aethopick, Indick, and so forth. 1695 R. Blackmore Prince Arthur viii. 237 The Britannic Hero. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 6. ⁋12 Envoy Extraordinary from her Britannick Majesty. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 208 On a clear day the three Britannic kingdoms may be seen from this island. 1848 W. K. Kelly tr. L. Blanc Hist. Ten Years I. 473 His Britannic majesty maintained with St. Petersburg relations of amity. 1876 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. (rev. ed.) II. xxxv. 390 For the English colonies, her Britannic majesty..was the exclusive slave-trader. 1950 ‘C. S. Forester’ Mr. Midshipman Hornblower ix. 209 His Britannic Majesty's Consul at Oran pro. tem., and a Mussulman from expediency. 1971 Daily Dispatch (East London, S. Afr.) 30 June 10 Hilary said, ‘I believe I am the first man to have climbed this peak and I claim it in the name of Her Britannic Majesty’. 2002 T. Nairn Pariah ix. 103 She compares the Britannic roller-coaster with Russia,..as exhibiting how nervous post-imperial countries can become, as they teeter unstably between one stereotype and the next. His (also Her) Britannic Majesty In this use Your Majesty is a formal substitute for the pronoun you, and His (also Her) Majesty (abbreviated H.M.) may be either prefixed to such designations as the King, the Queen, Queen Elizabeth II, etc., or substituted for them; so, in later use, Their Majesties, when more than one royal person is meant. Also, with distinguishing adjective: His (also Her) Imperial Majesty (now historical) (abbreviated H.I.M.): said of an emperor or empress; His (also Her) Britannic Majesty (abbreviated H.B.M.) (see Britannic adj.); His Catholic Majesty (now historical): the King of Spain; His Most Christian Majesty (now historical): the King of France; His Satanic Majesty: the Devil, Satan (also ironic); also his sable majesty (see sable adj.).extracted from majestyn.< as lemmas |
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