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Definition of Pursuivants
1. pursuivant [n] - See also: pursuivant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pursuivants
Literary usage of Pursuivants
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Chronicle of the English Augustinian Canonesses Regular of the Lateran by Adam Hamilton (1906)
"THE pursuivants AT MR ... The foresaid gentleman living there, it happened that
once the pursuivants came on a sudden. ..."
2. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1822)
"Grooms of his late Royal Highness's Bedchamber. pursuivants : 'George Frederick
Beltz, esq. Portcullis. William Woods, esq. ..."
3. Military and Religious Life in the Middle Ages and the Period of the Renaissance by P. L. Jacob (1874)
"pursuivants at Arms.—Courts and Tribunals of Love.—Creation of Knights.—Degradation
of Knights.—Judicial Duels.—Trials by Ordeal.—Feudal Champions. ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"While there, he was arrested by the pursuivants, and together with Battie was
tried at York and sentenced to death for high treason. ..."
5. The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical by John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees, Thomas Hood, John Harris (1816)
"heralds and pursuivants of arms, repaired to their stations at the four great
corner pillars of the theatre. The Recognition. ..."
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