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† vice-count Obs.
[vice-, after med.L. vicecomes.]
A viscount.
1461Rolls of Parlt. V. 477 Henry late Erle of Northumberlond, William Vicecount Beaumont [etc.]. 1633T. Stafford Pac. Hib. iii. xvii. (1821) 658 John Barry, brother to the Vicecount. 1655Digges Compl. Ambass. 367 The Vice-Count of Turayne, a Gentleman very dear unto Monsieur. 1673Phil. Trans. VIII. Ded., To the Right Honourable Richard Lord Vice-Count Ranalaugh.
So † vice-countess, a viscountess; hence † vice-countess-ship. † vice-countile a., viscountile.
c1624J. Williams Let. in Cabala (1654) 79 A strange Creation passed of late, of a Vice-Counteship of Maiden⁓head, passed to the Heires Males, who must be called here⁓after *Vice-Countesse Fynch. 1685Broadside, Coronat. James II (T. Newcomb), Vice-Countesses, Four a-Breast.
c1630Risdon Surv. Devon (1810) 13 The *vicecountile jurisdiction was hereditary. |