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† ˈgeneralty Obs.
Forms: 4–5 generalte, 5–6 generaltee, -tie, -tye, 6– generalty.
[a. OF. *generalté (generauté), f. general general.]
1. The quality or fact of being general; = generality 1. of, in a generalty: in general.
c1380Wyclif Serm. Sel. Wks. I. 316 Þis Cesare was moost in generalte and larges, and pees of his lordship. c1449Pecock Repr. 130 Forwhi this firste parti of this present book and The iust apprising of Holi Scripture as in generalte schewen vndoutabli..that [etc.]. 1494Fabyan Chron. vii. 666 One other cause was, whiche ensuythe of a generaltie, that for the more partie one mayer wyll nat fynesshe that thynge whiche that other begynneth. 1549Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par 1 Tim. 6 In a generaltye it is not expedient that the state of the commune wealth shoulde be dysturbed by meanes of vs. 1570–6Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) 159 The name of this place [Hyde], importing..by the generaltie thereof, some note of woorthinesse. 1642W. Bird Mag. Honor 52 In this our Common-wealth of England, me thinks that a Baron may be described in a generalty, answerable to every kind thereof in this manner. a1676Hale Hist. Com. Law ii. (1713) 24 The Municipal Laws..include in their Generalty all those several Laws which are allowed, as the Rule and Direction of..Judicial Proceedings.
2. A general statement, notion, term, etc.; = generality 2.
1533More Apol. xlv. Wks. 916/1 This pacifyer will fall fro the bablyng of a generaltie..and come to the naming of any one persone special. 1567J. Maplet Gr. Forest 8 b, I must needes..speake of the Gem: for that we haue beene occasioned, and shall be hereafter to vse it as the generaltie or notion of the name. 1601B. Jonson Poetaster v. i. (1602) K 2 b, Nor any long, or far-fetcht Circumstance Wrappt in the curious General'ties of Artes. 1609Douland Ornith. Microl. 29 To proceed from generaltie to specialty is more naturall to vs.
3. The main body, greater part; = generality 3.
c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 43 Ȝif it seme ony tyme to þe generalte of mynystris prouyncial & custodis þat þer forseide mynyster is not sufficient to þe seruyce [etc.]. 1525Ld. Berners Froiss. II. ccxxviii. [ccxxiv.] 716 Ye ought rather to entertayne the generaltie of your realme than the ydell wordes of two knyghtes.
4. a. The dignity or office of general; = generality 4. b. The general staff of an army; = generality 5. c. (See quot. 1611) = generality 6.
1611Cotgr., Generalité..a generaltie; a place of generall receit of the finances. 1643Prynne Sov. Power Parl. App. 178 The Earle of Egmont..by the advice of the Councell of Estate, and of the Generalty, had..been..sent into Spain. 1647W. Browne tr. Gomberville's Polexander iii. v. 147 The Emperour..put a terrible Army into the Field, divided the Generalty between Achomat and Haly Basha, and gave the command of the Janizaries to Solyman. |