Squired vs Esquired - What's the difference?
squired | esquired |
(squire)
A shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight.
A title of dignity next in degree below knight, and above gentleman. See esquire.
A male attendant on a great personage.
A devoted attendant or follower of a lady; a beau.
(UK, colloquial)
To attend as a squire
To attend as a beau, or gallant, for aid and protection
(obsolete) A ruler; a carpenter's square; a measure.
* 1598 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene)
* 1598 , (William Shakespeare), (w, Love's Labour's Lost) , V, 2, 474.
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* 1628 , (William Shakespeare), (w, The Winter's Tale) , IV, 4, 348.
(dated) Using the title or honorific of esquire.
* 1822 , Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine , Volume 12,
* 1824 , , Canto the Sixteenth, LXIX,
(esquire)
As verbs the difference between squired and esquired
is that squired is (squire) while esquired is (esquire).As an adjective esquired is
(dated) using the title or honorific of esquire.squired
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Verb
(head)squire
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(wikipedia squire)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Verb
(squir)- (Chaucer)
- to squire a lady
- (Goldsmith)
Etymology 2
From (etyl) See square.Noun
(en noun)- But temperaunce, said he, with golden squire , / Betwixt them both can measure out a meane.
- do not you know my lady's foot by the squire .
- as for a workman not to know his axe, saw, squire , or any other toole, […].
- twelve foot and a half by the squire .
Anagrams
* *esquired
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Adjective
(-)page 83,
- Here's to all the rest, both esquired and anonymous, / May they all in their times find their own Hieronymus ;
- 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;
