Meanings of high prerogative in English

The Speaker intimated that such ruling was in accord with the high prerogative of the Chair.

You have brought insult upon our sacred order, and have caused bold and impious defiance of our high prerogative.

Her high prerogative it is to offer fitting first-fruits to high heaven, hers to furnish forth the overflowing festal board.

Old England's high prerogative.

No lawless impulses usurped the place of that serene resolve which had grown strong by every exercise of its high prerogative.

In the United States, the office has been shorn of this high prerogative, and these Officers are elected by the Grand Lodge.

The paramount right, the high prerogative of love, which he held as strongly as I did, seemed attacked in its liberty divine.

Reason and conscience require this, and God gives to every one the mastery of himself if he will but use his high prerogative.

His proposal excited the indignation of the high prerogative party, who thought themselves betrayed; his followers rose in revolt; "the treasury bench seemed to totter".

Remember that the highest prerogative of power is the exercise of mercy.

The freedom of the Hebrew poet is one of his high prerogatives.

Constantine, as a Roman emperor, exercised the supreme right of legislation,-thehighest prerogative of men in power.

Hence the universal respect which the whole race entertains for their spiritual rulers, and their unutterable confidence in their high prerogatives.

Structure was everything; life, with its highest prerogatives, intellect, instinct, did not count, was not worthy of admission into the zoological scheme.

The Queen was compelled to choose which of her two highest prerogatives she would exercise, whether she would create Peers, or dissolve the Parliament.