Honorific: alternatives and connections

Conferring absolution; absolutory.

A ceremony formerly used in conferring knighthood, consisting am embrace, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat blade of a…

Being of advantage; conferring advantage; gainful; profitable; useful; beneficial; as, an advantageous position; trade is advantageous…

The act rendering alkaline by impregnating with an alkali; a conferring of alkaline qualities.

Immortality; also, the nectar conferring immortality.

The ceremony observed in conferring the degree of doctor of divinity in some European universities. It begins by a harangue of the cha…

Conferring aid or help; helping; aiding; assisting; subsidiary; as auxiliary troops.

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 Gar…

To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness.

The act of conferring a benefit.

Conferring benefits; useful; profitable; helpful; advantageous; serviceable; contributing to a valuable end; -- followed by to.

The act of giving or bestowing; a conferring or bestowal.

Taking or conferring rank by brevet; as, a brevet colonel; a brevet commission.

To combine with carbon or a carbon compound; -- said esp. of a process for conferring a higher degree of illuminating power on combust…

The act of conferring or bestowing.

To call to remembrance by a special act or observance; to celebrate with honor and solemnity; to honor, as a person or event, by some…

A certificate conferring military or naval rank and authority; as, a colonel's commission.

Of, pertaining to, or conferring, a commission; conferred by a commission or warrant.