illustrious, glorious, splendid, brilliant, radiant; bright &c 420; full-blown; honorific. eminent, prominent; high &c 206; in the zenith; at the head of, at the top of the tree; peerless, of the first water.; superior &c 33; supereminent, preeminent.

This wider meaning should be attached to certain passages in Herodotus, which have been generally interpreted 'commanding the sea,' or by the mere titular and honorific 'having the dominion of the sea.'

They bestowed on his son the same honorific title as upon him, so that Claudius was known in a way as Britannicus Proper.

They entitled him Pythian Victor, Olympian Victor, National Victor, Absolute Victor, besides all the usual expressions, and of course added to these names the honorific designations belonging to his imperial office, so that every one of them had "Caesar" and "Augustus" as a tag.

Yet, far from refusing to worship them on that account, he is assiduous in prayer and sacrificeperhaps, indeed, all the more assiduous in consequence of what he believes about their attributes;[10] being persuaded (like the attendant who warned Hippolytus) that his only chance of mollifying their ungentle dispositions in regard to himself is, by honorific tribute in words and offerings.

Such was the treatment accorded unhappy Alexandria by the Ausonian Beast, as the tag of the oracle about him called him; and he said he liked the title and was glad to be distinguished by the honorific appellation of "Beast."