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esquired

esquired adjective: using the title or honorific of esquire. Also the simple past and past participle of esquire.

Adjective

esquired (not comparable)

  1. (dated) Using the title or honorific of esquire.
    • Here's to all the rest, both esquired and anonymous, / May they all in their times find their own Hieronymus ;1822, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 12, page 83
    • All country gentlemen, esquired or knighted, / May drop in without cards, and take their station / At the full board, and sit alike delighted / With fashionable wines and conversation;1824, Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto the Sixteenth, LXIX

Also used as

esquired is also the simple past and past participle of esquire.

Words that rhyme with esquired

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Questions about esquired

What does esquired mean?
Esquired means using the title or honorific of esquire.
What part of speech is esquired?
Esquired is an adjective.

Words near esquired in the dictionary

  1. Esquimaus
  2. Esquimaux
  3. Esquimo
  4. Esquimos
  5. esquire
  6. esquired
  7. esquires
  8. esquireship
  9. esquireships
  10. esquiress
  11. esquiresses

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