Meaning of raise to the ermine | Babel Free

Definitions

To ennoble; to appoint someone to the House of Lords or the judiciary.

Commonwealth

Examples

“THE Times, in a late article on the judicial system, in reference to the objection that, 'by multiplying judicial officers an inferior order of men must be raised to the ermine,' remarked that, if fifty years ago it was easy to select fifteen judges from the mass of practising barristers, it ought to be quite as easy to choose twenty or twenty-five now from a field of selection three or four times as wide.”

“Burnet styles him "this vicious drunkard raised to the ermine." Evelyn terms him "most ignorant but most daring cruel and a slave to the Court"”

“The last Australian raised to the ermine was the Rt Hon Richard Gardiner Casey, who became a life peer as Baron Casey of Berwick and the City of Westminster in 1960.”

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