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ˈushership
[f. usher n. + -ship.]
1. The office or functions of an usher.
1580Fulke Martiall Confut. iv. 165 Y⊇ Priestes are appointed to vse those signes, which if Martials Vshership will not admit, [etc.]. 1631T. Power Tom of all Trades 44 To leape into instantly, and imediately out of a Ladies vshership. 1740Ld. Harrington in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. I. 275 The Ushership of the Exchequer. 1788Cowper Let. Wks. 1836 VI. 201 When I was under his ushership at Westminster. 1825T. Hook Sayings Ser. ii. III. 93 To assume the ushership of the black rod at Montgomery Place. 1881Daily News 1 Aug. 5/3 In Algeria..his years of ushership had been the most wretched of his life.
2. A post or position as a (school-) usher.
1788W. Cowper Let. 30 Nov. (1982) III. 233, I was under his ushership at Westminster. 1825Hone Every-day Bk. I. 79 The son..being put to school, obtained successive usherships. 1880R. K. Dent Old & New Birmingham 79 Johnson having found the drudgery of an ushership..too irksome for him. |