Monsignore

Monsignore, a title of honour given to prelates of the Roman Catholic Church. Formerly in France the corresponding title of Monseigneur was allowed to all high dignitaries of the church, to the princes of the blood-royal, to the higher nobles, and to the presidents of the superior law-courts. But from the time of Louis XIV. Monseigneur without further addition was appropriated as the title of the Dauphin.