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CARDINAL
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Shakespearean
King Henry the Eighth' Cardinal Campeius.
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English, French, Spanish, and Dutch
English, French, Spanish, and Dutch : from Middle English, Old French cardinal ‘cardinal’, the church dignitary (Latin cardinalis, originally an adjective meaning ‘crucial’). The surname may have denoted a servant who worked in a cardinal’s household, but was probably more often bestowed as a nickname on someone who habitually dressed in red or who had played the part of a cardinal in a pageant, or on one who acted in a lordly and patronizing manner, like a prince of the Church.A bearer of the name, of unknown origin, is documented in Montreal by 1666.
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English
English : apparently a metonymic occupational name for a crossbowman who specialized in fighting from the battlements of castles, from Anglo-Norman French carnel ‘battlement’, ‘embrasure’ (a metathesized form of crenel, Late Latin crenellus, a diminutive of crena ‘notch’).English : reduced form of Carbonell or Cardinal.Swedish : the second element -ell is a common suffix of Swedish surnames, taken from the Latin adjectival ending -elius. The first element is unexplained.
Boy/Male
Shakespearean
King Richard III' Cardinal Bourchier, Archbishop of Canterbury.
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Shakespearean
King John' Cardinal Pandulph, the Pope's legate.
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Hindu, Indian, Marathi
Continuing; The Best; Son
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Indian
Flowers
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Hebrew
Incense.
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Bengali, Hindu, Indian
Beauty
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Tamil
Peacock, Illusion
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English
English : diminutive of Pine 1.
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Hindu
Friend of fire, Sparkling eyes
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Indian
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Indian
Writer
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French
Gift from Apollo.
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v. t.
To exalt to the office of a cardinal.
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The point in the heavens where the sun is seen to set at the equinox; or, the corresponding point on the earth; that one of the four cardinal points of the compass which is in a direction at right angles to that of north and south, and on the left hand of a person facing north; the point directly opposite to east.
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A genus of plants, including a great number of species. Lobelia inflata, or Indian tobacco, is an annual plant of North America, whose leaves contain a poisonous white viscid juice, of an acrid taste. It has often been used in medicine as an emetic, expectorant, etc. L. cardinalis is the cardinal flower, remarkable for the deep and vivid red color of its flowers.
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That one of the four cardinal points of the compass, at any place, which lies in the direction of the true meridian, and to the left hand of a person facing the east; the direction opposite to the south.
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One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south.
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A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points, which are often called the four winds.
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An office of the papal court which examines cases of conscience, confession, absolution from vows, etc., and delivers decisions, dispensations, etc. Its chief is a cardinal, called the Grand Penitentiary, appointed by the pope.
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A portable ornamental column, formerly carried before a cardinal, as emblematic of his support to the church.
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A cardinal, from one of the more considerable Roman Catholic nations, who looks after the interests of his people at Rome; also, a cardinal who has the same relation to a college, religious order, etc.
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The office, rank, or dignity of a cardinal.
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The first ceremony used for devoting a person to the service of God and the church; the first degree of the clericate, given by a bishop, abbot, or cardinal priest, consisting in cutting off the hair from a circular space at the back of the head, with prayers and benedictions; hence, entrance or admission into minor orders.
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The bishop of Rome, the head of the Roman Catholic Church. See Note under Cardinal.
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A congregation of cardinals, established in 1622, charged with the management of missions.
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That one of the four cardinal points directly opposite to the north; the region or direction to the right or direction to the right of a person who faces the east.
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That on which anything turns or depends; a governing principle; a cardinal point or rule; as, this argument was the hinge on which the question turned.
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A cardinalate. See Cardinal.
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A skullcap covering the tonsure, worn under the berretta. The pope's is white; a cardinal's red; a bishop's purple; a priest's black.
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The condition, dignity, of office of a cardinal
v. t.
To degrade from the cardinalship.
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Of or pertaining to Cardinal Mazarin, prime minister of France, 1643-1661.