honorific

How To Use honorific In A Sentence

• He and his wife were then given honorific titles.
• He now occupies the lofty position of Editor Emeritus at the Irish Times, an honorific title given to him for loyal, distinguished service, dedication beyond the call, etc.
• Moreover, political reasons may have motivated the Tibetans to address honorifically certain rulers as 4 Buddha-Figures
• The ‘little’ was the traditional honorific indicating that the kid was a prodigy.
• The courses all have honorific ingredients that are listed afterwards. Times, Sunday Times
• Members of the caste are honorifically addressed as Mullaji. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II
• ‘Welcome aboard the Oberon, Captain,’ Reagan said, addressing Lawrence by the honorific he deserved as commanding officer of a ship.
• In ipsius translatione ipsa ciuitas restaurabatur, et firmabatur multò honorificentiùs, et fortiùs destructione sua, quæ per Carolum magnum Regem Franciæ antea fuit plenè annihilata, dum Ogerus dux Danorum præfatus in ea tenebatur captiuus, quem Templarij ad filios Brehir Regis Sarracenorum cum traditione vendiderant, eò quòd ipse Ogerus dictum Brehir in proelio occiderat, iuxta Lugdunum Franciæ ciuitatem. The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
• In at least two of his honorific inscriptions, this Piso is called both "high priest of the Imperial cult" (this must have been after T. Flavius Neon held this office), but also "the first organizer (agonothetès) for eternity (in perpetuum) of the agones Klareia. Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Recording Report 3: Epigraphical Studies
• Thus, in the case of an honorific status, no powers are associated with it, according to him.