nobby (nob i)

[ ital. [Slang.] I'll come back in the course of the evening, if agreeable to you, and endeavor to meet your wishes respecting this unfortunate family matter, and the nobbiest way of keeping it quiet. Dickens , Bleak House, liv. nobile officium (nob'i-lē o-fish'i-um). [L., lit. 'noble office': nobile, neut. of nobilis, noble; officium, office: see office.] In Scotland, an exceptional power po e ed by the Court of Se ion to interpose in questions of equity, so as to modify or abate the rigor of the law, and to a certain extent to give aid where no strictly legal remedy can be obtained. nobiliary (no-bil'i-ā-ri), a. and n. [F. nob i liaire = Sp. Pg. nobiliario, Nobiliary , in such a phrase as " nobiliary roll," or " nobil iary element of Parliament," is a term of patent utility, one to which we should try to habituate ourselves. F. Hall, Mod. Eng., p. 377. II. n.; pl. no biliaries (-riz). A history of noble families. nobilify (no-bil'i-fi), v. t.; pret. and pp. nobili fied, ppr. nobilifying. [L. nobilis, noble, + -ficare, make: see- fy.] To nobilitate. Holland. Nobili's rings. See ring . nobilitate (no-bil'i-tat), v. t.; pret. and pp. no- bilitated , ppr. nobilitating . [L. nobilitatus, pp. of nobilitare , make known, render famous, render excellent, make noble, ennoble, nobilis , known, famous, noble: see noble .] To make noble; ennoble; dignify; exalt. That, being nobly born, he might per sever, Enthron'd by fame, nobilitated ever. Ford , Fame's Memorial, nobilitate (no-bil'i-tāt), a. [ nobilitatus , pp.: see the verb.] Ennobled. The branches of the principal family of Douglas which Nisbet , Heraldry (1816), I. 74. were nobilitate.