majesticalness (majestikalnes)

The character of being majestic. [Rare.] majesticne (mā-jes'tik-nes), n. The quality of being majestic. Cartwright, To the Counte of Car lisle. [Rare.] majesty (maj'es-ti), n.; pl. majesties (-tiz). [ And aftir that, zit scholde he putten hem in a fayrere Paradys, where that the i schold see God of Nature visibly, in his Magestee and in his Bli e. Mandeville, Travels, p. 279. The Lord reigneth, he is clothed with majesty . Ps. xciii. i. Awed by the majesty of Antiquity, turn not with indifference from the Future. Sumner , Orations, I. 196. 3585 Before she arrived at London, Captaine Smith, to deserue her former couretesies, made her qualities knowne to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie and her Court. Quoted in Capt . John Smith's Works, II. 29. Most royal majesty , I crave no more than hath your highne offer'd. Shak ., Lear, i. 1. 196. 4. [ cap.] In medieval art, etc., a symbolic representation of the first person of the Trinity, seated on a throne. In the art of the Western Church this figure is usually robed in a cope and other vestments, wearing, as emblematic of sovereignty over the whole universe, a triple (sometimes a quadruple) crown similar to the papal tiara, and holding the mound or globe of kingly authority. The dome [of St. Sophia at Constantinople] was covered with mosaic of gla : the summit, as usual, representing a Majesty. Neale, Eastern Church, i. 238. 5. In medieval English usage, the canopy of a hearse: so called because generally adorned with the symbolic figure of God the Father, called the Majesty. See hearse. This tester-like covering was known as the majesty . Rock , Church of our Fathers, ii. 497. 6. In her., a representation of an eagle as crowned with a regal crown and holding a scepter.-Apostolic Majesty. See apostolic king, under apos tolic. majesty ship (maj'es-ti-ship), n. [ A bitter shrub Greene, Looking-gla for London and England. Maj.-Gen. An abbreviation of Major -General, used before a name. majoe-bitter (mā'jō-bit"èr), n . of the West Indies, Picramnia Antidesma , used medicinally. majolica (ma-jol'i-kä; It. pron. mä-yōʻli-kä), n. [ Maiolica , for Majorca (Sp. Mallorca ), w Mallorca ), whence , the first specimens came.] 1. Decorative enameled pottery, especially that of Italy from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century. The name is applied particularly to the more richly adorned pieces, the colors of which have remarkable intensity. (See mezz a majolica ). Mod ern writers on ceramics have at tempted to limit it lustered pot- tery, especially that of the middle ages and the sixteenth century, made in Majorca or in Spain, or more especially in Italy, in sup- posed imitation of ware from the two former countries. Majolica Pesaro Ware of about A. D. 1510. 2. As applied to modern pottery, a kind of ware which in effects of color partly imitates the pottery above defined, especially in large pieces used for architectural decoration, gar den-seats, vases, etc. This ware is usually much harder and more perfectly manufactured than the ancient, but is inferior in decorative effect, being cast in molds and having a mechanical look. Fontana majolica, a variety of the majolica of Urbino, the name Fontana having adopted by certain of the leading decorators of that school. The painter known as Orazio Fontana is the most celebrated of these; his work takes rank among the finest produc tions of the sixteenth century.