majorate

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin majorare (“to augment”), derived from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin māior, māiōrem. See major (adjective).

Verb

1. (obsolete) To augment; to increase.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Howell to this entry?)

Noun

majorate (plural majorates)

1. The office or rank of a major.

   Synonym: majorship

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “majorate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)