esquired
English
Adjective
esquired (not comparable)
- (dated) Using the title or honorific of esquire.
- 1822, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 12, page 83,
- Here's to all the rest, both esquired and anonymous, / May they all in their times find their own Hieronymus ;
- 1824, Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto the Sixteenth, LXIX,
- All country gentlemen, esquired or knighted, / May drop in without cards, and take their station / At the full board, and sit alike delighted / With fashionable wines and conversation;
- 1822, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 12, page 83,
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