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intendancy|ɪnˈtɛndənsɪ|
Also 6 -encie. 7–9 -ency.
[f. intendant n.: see prec. and -ancy. In sense 2, ad. Sp. intendencia.]
1. The office, position, or function of an intendant; a body of intendants.
1598J. D. tr. Le Roy's Aristotles Politiques 172 The fourth [of the kinds of governments is]..a perpetuall military intendencie by tribe. 1645Evelyn Diary 25 Jan., Hence we went to see Dr. Gibbs..who had some intendency in an Hospital built on the Via Triumphalis [Rome]. 1670Cotton Espernon iii. xi. 548 Under colour of some Commission of his Intendancy. 1762tr. Busching's Syst. Geog. III. 619 Each..is vested with the intendancy of some interior districts. 1825Carlyle Schiller App. ii. (1872) 265 The theatre of that town..owes to him its foundation, and its maintenance through his long Intendancy. 1870Daily News 27 Sept., The intendancy had orders to proceed to Lagny.
b. fig. Superintendence.
1727Warburton in Tracts (1789) 118 The Atomist Lucretius, whose cold Philosophy had formally excluded all Intendency of a superior Mind.
2. A district in Spanish America under the control of an intendant (intendente).
[1808Pike Sources Mississ. iii. App. (1810) 4 The foregoing nine administrations or intendencias, the kingdom of Leon, and the province of Nuevo San Ander..form, as I believe, the whole political government of the vice-roy of Mexico.] 1810Edin. Rev. XVI. 98 The intendancy of Guanaxuato has 568 inhabitants to the square league. 1836Macgillivray tr. Humboldt's Trav. xxvi. 395 The silver..was deposited in the provincial treasuries established in the chief places of the intendancies. |