Vocabulary Word
Word: eminent
Definition: rising above others; high; lofty; distinguished; Ex. eminent position
Definition: rising above others; high; lofty; distinguished; Ex. eminent position
Sentences Containing 'eminent'
But when variety in the forms is wanted, she is pre eminent, and it is never advisable to waste inventive power where it is so unnecessary.
``Really, sir,''retorted the count,``have you attained the eminent situation in which you are, without having admitted, or even without having met with exceptions?
Osborne went to the West Indies, where he became an eminent lawyer and made money, but died young.
Ramuzzini, an eminent Italian physician, has written a particular book concerning such diseases.
Something not less than the largest of those two sums, therefore, must at that time have been usually paid to the most eminent teachers at Athens.
Many other eminent teachers in those times appear to have acquired great fortunes.
His way of living, as well as that of Hippias and Protagoras, two other eminent teachers of those times, is represented by Plato as splendid, even to ostentation.
The most eminent of them, however, appear always to have enjoyed a degree of consideration much superior to any of the like profession in the present times.
In the former situation, we are likely to find the universities filled with the most eminent men of letters that are to be found in the country.
In a country which has produced so many eminent men of letters, it must appear somewhat singular, that scarce one of them should have been a professor in a university.
We very rarely find in any of them an eminent man of letters, who is a professor in a university, except, perhaps, in the professions of law and physic; professions from which the church is not so likely to draw them.
In those countries, the universities are continually draining the church of all its most eminent men of letters.
How know we whether Socrates were so eminent indeed, and of so extraordinary a disposition?
He first did the eminent service of arousing attention to the probability of all change in the organic, as well as in the inorganic world, being the result of law, and not of miraculous interposition.
I have associated with several eminent fanciers, and have been permitted to join two of the London Pigeon Clubs.
It is certain that several of our eminent breeders have, even within a single lifetime, modified to a large extent their breeds of cattle and sheep.
Not one man in a thousand has accuracy of eye and judgment sufficient to become an eminent breeder.
As the degree of sterility in the latter case depends in an eminent degree on the conditions of life being more or less favourable, so I have found it with illegitimate unions.
We see this in the fact that the most eminent palaeontologists, namely, Cuvier, Agassiz, Barrande, Pictet, Falconer, E.
I am not the one to undermine the propriety of Senor Don Quixote, for it strikes me that among his many virtues the one that is pre-eminent is that of modesty.
I had been very happy there, I had a great attachment for the Doctor, and I was eminent and distinguished in that little world.
Then, 'Remarkable Behaviour of an Eminent Scientist,' I heard the Editor say, thinking (after his wont) in headlines.
I have already some acquaintance with the law--as a defendant on civil process--and I shall immediately apply myself to the Commentaries of one of the most eminent and remarkable of our English jurists.
The nurseries for males of noble or eminent birth, are provided with grave and learned professors, and their several deputies.
A particular description of the Struldbrugs, with many conversations between the author and some eminent persons upon that subject.
Nor is the pre-eminent tremendousness of the great Sperm Whale anywhere more feelingly comprehended, than on board of those prows which stem him.
Carmen Lawrence appointed Wilson as one of the three eminent jurists conducting The WA Inc Royal Commission.
He was recommended as physician to the Virginia Company of London by the eminent Dr. Theodore Gulston, the founder of the Gulstonian Lectureship of the London College of Physicians.
Eminent educationist Prof. Kazi Rafikul Haque was appointed principal immediately after nationalization.
He was the son of eminent Indologist R. G. Bhandarkar.
Many eminent persons from this surname have achieved success in their life.
This required eminent domain proceedings against the northern parcel.
Invoking eminent domain, the government obtained the surrounding land for the base expansion.
An eminent author, he died on 15 July 1983.
Other eminent Catholic lawyers like Stephen Rice also denounced the measure, but to no avail.
Kamala Dasgupta, wife of the eminent Indian sculptor, Pradosh Dasgupta.
He was born at Madrid, into a family connected with the theatre, his mother being the eminent actress Joaquina Baus.
Metropolitans Vasyl Lypkivsky and Mykola Boretsky were eminent UAOC preachers.
In the words of an eminent British historian, ""It is very difficult to evaluate his importance in the scale of world history.
Eminent persons are invited to address the gathering of students.
This is the basic characteristics of the AL and at that time all eminent editors had to go to jail.
He was a patron of the arts, and sponsored - among others - the eminent Elizabethan actor Edward Alleyn.
He was equally eminent in ecclesiastical history, as an editor of texts and as the historian of the British constitution.
Eminent Banker, Philanthropist and Social Leader K.K. Pai became Chairman of the KLCF.
There were a few eminent teachers on the staff of St.
He was eminent in the councils of the Church of England in Canada.
1560 – 1609) was a knight writer on heraldry, a genealogist, an eminent common lawyer and MP.
Parkinson has been called one of the most eminent gardeners of his day.
(S.T.B., 1951), an eminent Johannine scholar and St.
Named in honour of the eminent Australian botanist, L.A.S.Johnson.
