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Preferment
Preferment Pre*fer"ment, n.
1. The act of choosing, or the state of being chosen;
preference. [R.]
Natural preferment of the one . . . before the
other. --Sir T.
Browne.
2. The act of preferring, or advancing in dignity or office;
the state of being advanced; promotion.
Neither royal blandishments nor promises of valuable
preferment had been spared. --Macaulay.
3. A position or office of honor or profit; as, the
preferments of the church.
Meaning of Preferment from wikipedia
- A pre-ferment (also
known as
bread starter) is a
fermentation starter used in indirect
methods of
bread making. It may also be
called mother dough. A...
- cession, upon the
clerk being instituted to
another benefice or some
other preferment incompatible with it; by
deprivation and
sentence of an ecclesiastical...
- A Fool's
Preferment; Or, The
Three Dukes Of
Dunstable is a 1688
comedy play by the
English writer Thomas D'Urfey. It is a
reworking of John Fletcher's...
- John
Merewether (1797 – 4
April 1850) was an
English churchman, Dean of
Hereford from 1832,
known also as an antiquary. The son of John
Merewether of Blackland...
- The
Noble Fisherman, also
known as
Robin Hood's
Preferment and
Robin Hood's Fishing, is a 17th-century
ballad of
Robin Hood. Unusually, it
depicts Robin...
-
George Bromley (ca. 1526–1589) was an
English lawyer, landowner,
politician and
judge of the Mid-Tudor and
Elizabethan period, a
member of an important...
- the
Douchi making process;
first you make the Koji, then
there is a
prefermentation stage.
There can also be a
maturation or post
fermentation stage, were...
- The
Force of Love (1680) and
eight songs for
Thomas d'Urfey's A Fool's
Preferment (1688). He also
composed songs for two
plays by
Nahum Tate (later the...
-
Young took holy orders, and
wrote many
fawning letters in
search of
preferment,
attracting accusations of insincerity.
Young was a son of
Edward Young...
- "
preferments" and are
ordered by bishops. Such
appointments that
place a
preferment title in
front of "Reverend" are
normally a
permanent preferment,...
