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Definition of Margrave

1. Noun. The military governor of a frontier province in medieval Germany.

2. Noun. A German nobleman ranking above a count (corresponding in rank to a British marquess).

Definition of Margrave

1. n. Originally, a lord or keeper of the borders or marches in Germany.

Definition of Margrave

1. Noun. A feudal era military-administrative officer of comital rank in the Carolingian empire and some successor states, originally in charge of a border area. ¹

2. Noun. A hereditary ruling prince in certain feudal states of the Holy Roman Empire and elsewhere; the titular equivalent became known as marquis or marquess. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Margrave

1. the military governor of a medieval German border province [n -S]

Medical Definition of Margrave

1. 1. Originally, a lord or keeper of the borders or marches in Germany. 2. The English equivalent of the German title of nobility, markgraf; a marquis. Origin: G. Markgraf, prop, lord chief justice of the march; mark bound, border, march + graf earl, count, lord chief justice; cf. Goth. Gagrefts decree: cf. D. Markgraaf, F. Margrave. See March border, and cf. Landgrave, Graff. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Margrave

margo superior glandulae suprarenalis margo superior pancreatis margo superior partis petrosae ossis temporalis margo superior scapulae margo superior splenis margo superomedialis margo supraorbitalis margo tibialis pedis margo ulnaris antebrachii margo uteri

margo zygomaticus alae majoris margosa margosas margravate margravates margrave (current term) margraves margravial margraviate margraviates

margravine margravines margs marguerite marguerite daisy marguerites mari complaisant maria mariachi mariachis

Literary usage of Margrave

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1844)
"THE margrave OF ANSPACH. [1798, JULY 25, 26; 1800, MARCH 14. ... The margrave and Margravine giving very expensive fetes and entertainments, ..."

2. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians (1911)
"See Brandenburg-Ansbach Jägerndorf, under the ban (1620), rv 68; 71; 75; v 653 margrave John George of, Prince of of Elector Frederick III, Princess of, ..."

3. The Dictionary of Biographical Reference: Containing Over One Hundred by Lawrence Barnett Phillips (1889)
"1431 DLU Baden, Carl I., margrave of ; d. 1475 DLU Baden, Carl - Friedrich, grand - duke of ; 1728— 1811 I..LU Baden, Carl-Ludvig-Friedrich; 1786—1818 DLr ..."

4. Memoirs of Wilhelmine, Margravine of Baireuth by Wilhelmine, Helena Augusta Victoria (1888)
"When the margrave and ourselves lived there it was already a tight squeeze. ... I had this arranged for the margrave, and prepared some rooms in the castle ..."

5. The Annals of the English Bible by Christopher Anderson (1845)
"And so it has been done, and I delivered myself the said Lady's letters to the foresaid margrave, in presence of the whole Council of the said town of ..."

6. The Gentleman's Magazine (1828)
"From Lisbon the margrave and Margravine went to Madrid, thence through France to Berlin, and thence came to England. " Upon my return to England (tbe lay*) ..."

7. The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal by David Brewster, Robert Jameson, Royal Society of Edinburgh (1819)
"margrave, who was ordered on this service, fell a sacrifice to the climate of that country, ... margrave, the most active of all the Prince's attendants, ..."

8. The World's Great Classics by Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne (1901)
"II " Woe's me," began the margrave, " That ever I was born, That none can stay the sorrows of this disastrous morn 1 Howe'er I long for concord, ..."

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