dishonouryoudaoicibaDictYouDict
chiefly British English spelling of dishonor; also see -or. Related: Dishonoured; dishonouring; dishonourable; dishonourably.
honor (v.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
mid-13c., honuren, "to do honor to," from Old French honorer, from Latin honorare, from honor (see honor (n.)). In the commercial sense of "accept a bill due, etc.," it is recorded from 1706. Related: Honored; honoring.
A custom more honoured in the breach than the observance. Whoever will look up the passage (Hamlet I. iv. 16) will see that it means, beyond a doubt, a custom that one deserves more honour for breaking than for keeping: but it is often quoted in the wrong & very different sense of a dead letter or rule more often broken than kept. [Fowler]
honouryoudaoicibaDictYouDict
chiefly British English spelling of honor; also see -or. Related: Honoured; honouring; honours.
time-honored (adj.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
also time-honoured, 1590s; from time (n.) + past participle of honor (v.).
unhonored (adj.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
1510s, also unhonoured, from un- (1) "not" + past participle of honor (v.).
macteyoudaoicibaDictYouDict
"Expressing approval, encouragement, or good will: ‘all praise to you!’, ‘well done!’, ‘bravo!’; ‘good luck!’", Late 16th cent.; earliest use found in Gabriel Harvey (c1552–1631), scholar and writer. From classical Latin macte, vocative of mactus honoured, extolled (used, frequently in fixed phrases, with estō may you be, either expressed or implicit), probably the past participle of an unrecorded verb *magere, cognate with magnus great.