Major

·adj Of full legal age.

II. Major ·adj A person of full age.

III. Major ·adj A Mayor.

IV. Major ·adj Of greater dignity; more important.

V. Major ·adj Greater by a semitone, either in interval or in difference of pitch from another tone.

VI. Major ·adj An officer next in rank above a captain and next below a lieutenant colonel; the lowest field officer.

VII. Major ·adj Greater in number, quantity, or extent; as, the major part of the assembly; the major part of the revenue; the major part of the territory.

VIII. Major ·adj That premise which contains the major term. It its the first proposition of a regular syllogism; as: No unholy person is qualified for happiness in heaven [the major]. Every man in his natural state is unholy [minor]. Therefore, no man in his natural state is qualified for happiness in heaven [conclusion or inference].