Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- By the grace or favor of God: an expression usually inserted in the ceremonial statement of the title of a sovereign: as, Victoria Dei gratia Britanniarum regina (Victoria, by the grace of God queen of the Britains).
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Quibus omnibus articulis, Serenesima princeps Elizabeth, Dei gratia
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Consequent to this claim of the Pope to vicar general of Christ in the present Church (supposed to be that kingdom of his to which we are addressed in the gospel) is the doctrine that it is necessary for a Christian king to receive his crown by a bishop; as if it were from that ceremony that he derives the clause of Dei gratia in his title; and that then only is he made king by the favour of God when he is crowned by the authority of God's universal vicegerent on earth; and that every bishop, whosoever be his sovereign, taketh at his consecration an oath of absolute obedience to the Pope.
Leviathan 2007
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