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‖ podestà|podeˈsta|
Also 6–8 podestate, 7–8 podestat.
[It. podestà:—OIt. podestate:—L. potestātem, power, authority, hence public officer, magistrate. So F. podestat (1762 in Dict. Acad.).]
a. A governor appointed by the Emperor Frederick I (Barbarossa) over one or more cities of Lombardy.
b. A chief magistrate elected annually in mediæval Italian towns and republics with judicial functions and almost unlimited powers. Also transf.
c. A subordinate judge or magistrate in modern Italian municipalities.
1548T. Hoby Trav. (1902) 10 No man weareth his weapon within the town, but such as are licensed by the Podesta. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. xxv. (Arb.) 308, I haue sene of the greatest podestates and grauest iudges and Presidentes of Parliament in Fraunce. 1630R. Johnson's Kingd. & Commw. 135 [In London] we have a Podesta, or Maior, that keepeth a Prince-like house. 1696tr. Du Mont's Voy. Levant 341 The Venitians maintain a Podestat in the Island to gather the Tribute. 1768Boswell Corsica ii, Every..village elects by majority of votes a Podesta and other two magistrates. 1820Byron Mar. Fal. Pref., When podesta and captain at Treviso. 1832tr. Sismondi's Ital. Rep. ii. 39 When the podestà of the Emperor arrived at Milan to take possession of the tribunal, he was sent contemptuously away. 1860All Year Round No. 53. 71 On the following night, the Podestà of the city suddenly died.
So poˈdesterate [f. It. podesteria office of a podestà + -ate1], the rule or office of a podestà.
1787J. Adams Def. Govt. U.S. (1794) II. 305 In the next year, 1280, in the podesterate of Alberigo Signoregi of Bologna. |