baronetical

[Eng. baronet; -ical.] Belonging to or having the dignity of a baronet. "The baronetical family of Money musk."-J. Pick ford, M.A., in Notes & Queries, Nov. 18, 1882. bạ-rō-ni-al, a. [In Fr. baronnial.] Pertaining or relating to a baron, or to the order of barons. wandering on from hall to hall, Words worth: Excursion, bk. ii. Baronial court or royal." baronial service. Service by vwhich a barony was held. It was generally that of furnishing a specified number of knights to aid the king in war. băr-on-ỹ, * băr-on-ye, * băr-ron-nỹ, s . [In Sw. and Dan. baroni ; Ger. baronie; Fr. baronnie; Sp. baronia , varonia male line, a barony; Port. baronia = male line; Ital. & Low Lat. baronia.] The lordship or fee of a baron, either temporal or spiritual. Originally every peer of superior rank had also a barony annexed to his other titles. But now the rule is not universal. Baronies in their first creation emanated from the king. [BARONIAL SERVICE.] Baronies appertain also to bishops, as they formerly did to abbots, William the Conqueror having changed the spiritual tenure of frank-almoyn, or free alms, by which they held their lands under the Saxon government, to the Norman or feudal tenure by barony. It was in virtue of this that they obtained seats in the House of Lords. Black stone: Comment., bk. i., chaps. 2, 12.) The word is common in Ireland for a subdivision of a county. băr'-o-scope, s . [In Fr. baroscope ; Ger. baroskop; from Gr. (1) βάρος ( baros ) = weight, and (2) σκοπέω ( skopeō ) = to look at, to behold.] An instrument designed to show that bodies in air lose as much of their weight as that of the air which they displace. It consists of the beam of a balance with a small weight at one end and a hollow copper sphere at the other. If these exactly balance each other in the air, then the sphere preponderates in a vacuum. where the winds are not variable, the alterations of the baroscope are very small."-Arbuthnot. băr-o-scop-ic, băr-o-scop-ic-al, adj . [Eng. baroscop (e); -ic.] Pertaining or relating to a baroscope; ascertained by means of a baroscope. that some inquisitive men would make baroscopical observations in England."-Boyle: Works, 11.798. ( Richardson.)