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ˈprovostship
[f. provost + -ship.]
1. The office or position of a provost: e.g.a. of a Roman prefect;
b. of the provost of an ecclesiastical or educational college;
c. of the provost of a municipal corporation, esp. in Scotland;
d. of an officer of public order (in quot. as a title).
a.1546Langley Pol. Verg. De Invent. ii. iii. 38 b, During that office [viz. of Dictator], all other magistrates were abrogated except the Tribunate or Prouostship of the Commons. 1598R. Grenewey Tacitus, Ann. xiv. xii. (1622) 213 But whom shall any mans dignitie warrant, seeing the Prouostship [præfectura] of the citie auailed not? 1678Wanley Wond. Lit. World vi. x. §12. 579/2 Piso..was advanced to the Provostship of the City of Rome.
b.1514in Burton & Raine Hemingbrough 381 The preferment of the Priour of Drax..to the provestship of Hemmyngburgh. 1549Latimer 2nd Serm. bef. Edw. VI (Arb.) 67 Hauynge the profyt of a Prouestshyp and a Deanry, and a Personage. 1623in Crt. & Times Jas. I (1849) II. 390 The provostship of Eton seems not to be so assured to Sir William Beecher. 1631Weever Anc. Fun. Mon. 199 He was preferred..vnto..the Prouostship of Beuerley. 1714Lond. Gaz. No. 5231/1 The Provostship of Oriel-College in Oxford. 1871Fraser Life Berkeley ii. 18 He entered Trinity College in June 1682... He was raised to the Provostship in August 1699.
c.a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) II. 150 [She] dischargit the lord Ruthven of his provistschipe and maid the laird of Kinphans prowest and captane of the toun. 1820Ranken Hist. France VII. v. i. 393 The townhall was rebuilt..under the provostship of the celebrated Miron. 1890Gross Gild Merch. I. 23 On Thursday, June 29, the whole community of the borough [Ipswich, an. 1200] elect two bailiffs to take charge of the provostship of the borough.
d.1823Scott Quentin D. vi, ‘And it please your noble provostship’ answered one of the clowns; ‘he was the very first..to cut down the rascal whom his Majesty's justice most deservedly hung up.’
†2. A collegiate society, house, or church under a provost. Obs.
1762tr. Busching's Syst. Geog. IV. 201 A little royal town..containing a collegiate-church or provostship. Ibid. 202 Oberndorf, a provostship of regular canons of the order of St. Augustine. Ibid. 324 Coppenberg, a noble provostship of Præmonstratenses..seated on an agreeable eminence. |