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lieutenancy
(lɛf-, lɪfˈtɛnənsɪ, U.S. ljuːˈtɛnənsɪ)
Also less correctly lieutenantcy.
[f. lieutenant: see -ancy.]
The office of a lieutenant.
†1. Delegated authority or command. Obs.
a1631Donne in Select. (1840) 255 He that resists his [God's] commission, his lieutenancy, his authority, in law⁓makers appointed by him, resists himself.
2. The office of a lieutenant, in various senses; e.g. that of deputy governor of a kingdom, etc., of Lord-lieutenant of a county; also, the commission of lieutenant in the army or navy.
1450Rolls of Parlt. V. 186/2 Graunte to hym made, of eny Revenuez..for his seid Lieutenauncie there. 1675Ogilby Brit. Introd. 3 The Regiments..upon a Commission of Lieutenancy..were settled. 1703Lond. Gaz. No. 3886/4 The Earl of Rochester having desired to be discharged from the Lieutenancy of Ireland. 1711Swift Jrnl. to Stella 4 Apr., Her husband bought a lieutenancy of foot, and is gone to Portugal. 1712― Let. to Whig Lord Wks. 1824 IV. 108 All your lordship can hope for, is only the lieutenancy of a county. 1799Washington Lett. Writ. (1893) XIV. 177 A lieutenancy was considered a handsome appointment for him. 1828Scott F.M. Perth xiii, When I was intrusted with the lieutenancy of the kingdom. 1841J. T. J. Hewlett Parish Clerk III. 7 The appointment to a coast⁓guard lieutenancy. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. ix. II. 423 The Earl of Abingdon..had recently been turned out of the lieutenancy of the county. 1875Stubbs Const. Hist. III. xviii. 140 Edmund Beaufort was ordered to undertake the lieutenancy in France and Normandy.
3. The term of a lieutenant's office.
1632Sir R. Le Grys tr. Velleius Paterc. 109 In his Lievetenancie under Marius in France..hee [Sylla] had routed some of the most esteemed Captaines. 1673Essex Papers (Camden) I. 108 In y⊇ time of my Lord Berkeley's Lieutenancy. 1842De Quincey Cicero Wks. VI. 226 The prolongation of these lieutenantcies beyond the legitimate year was one source of enormous evil.
†4. The district or province governed by a lieutenant. Obs.
1588Queen Elizabeth in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. ii. III. 138 The preparinge of our Subjectes within your Lievetennauncies to be in readines for defence againste any attempte. 1687in Picton L'pool Munic. Rec. (1883) I. 258 The list of Deputie Lievetenants..throughout the said Lievetanancie. 1726G. Shelvocke Voy. round World 266, I mention'd the surprisal of that place [Iquique], it being but a small Lieutenancy.
5. The body of deputy-lieutenants in a county. Also, in the city of London, the body of commissioners (sometimes incorrectly called ‘deputy-lieutenants’), now usually appointed annually, who perform the duties of a Lord-lieutenant with regard to the militia and volunteers.
1679in Proceed. Guildhall Sept. 13th 3 He would cause the Lieutenancy to meet on Thursday next. 1683in Lond. Gaz. No. 1859/1 The late Addresses from the Lieutenancy, Grand-Juries, and Corporations in our County. 1708Q. Anne ibid. No. 4496/1, I Thank the Lieutenancy for their Address. 1709H. Felton Classics (1718) 115 The List of Undisputed Masters, is hardly so long as the List of the Court of Aldermen and Lieutenancy of our famous Metropolis. 1727Boyer Fr. Dict. s.v., The Lieutenancy of London (the Officers of the Artillery-Men). 1873Act 36 & 37 Vict. c. 84 §2 The commissioners of lieutenancy of the city of London.
b. pl. The bodies of troops under the command of the Lord-lieutenants and commissioners of lieutenancy.
1709Steele Tatler No. 28 ⁋5 Our Militia and Lieutenancies, the most ancient Corps of Soldiers, perhaps in the Universe. |