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Birth; condition; rank by birth.

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Definitions

  1. a. Birth; condition; rank by birth.
  2. a. People of education and good breeding; in England, in a restricted sense, those between the nobility and the yeomanry.
  3. a. Courtesy; civility; complaisance.
  4. n. the most powerful members of a society
  5. n:100 n. the most powerful members of a society