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chancellery, -ory|ˈtʃɑːnsələrɪ, -æ-|
Forms: 3 chancelerie, 4 chauncelrie, chauncellerie, 7 chancellary, 9 chancelry, chancellory, 8– chancellery. Also in F. form chancellerie (see sense 3).
[a. OF. chancel(l)erie, f. chancelier chancellor; cf. late L. and Pr. cancellāria, Sp. cancelaria, It. and Cat. cancelleria: see -ery. Contracted at an early date to chancelry, chancery; also, partly refashioned as Chancellary.]
1. The office or position of a chancellor.
c1300Beket 359 Therfore ich ȝulde the up here al clene the chancelerie. 1393Gower Conf. II. 191 Thoffice of the chauncellerie Or of the kinges tresorie. 1886J. Gillow Hist. Eng. Catholics II. 380 His locum tenens in the Chancellory.
2. a. A chancellor's court, or office, with its officials. [Cf. Ger. kanzelei, kanzlei.]
1803Syd. Smith Rev. Catteau's Danois, The chancelry of Denmark interprets all laws which concern privileges in litigation..The German chancelry has the same powers and privileges in Sleswick and Holstein. 1876Daily News 5 Dec. 3/1 Each governor will have a chancellery, and a council composed of four members.
b. The office or department of a court secretary or notary (with its formalities of drawing up documents, official style of penmanship, etc.).
1683Temple Mem. Wks. 1731 I. 441 The Titles in the new Powers should be inserted..according to the usual Stile of the Chancellary of each Court. 1727T. Jenkins tr. Father Paul on Benefices (1736) 142 The Commendams contracted too much of this Habit, not altogether commendable, from the Roman chancellery. 1882–3Schaff Relig. Encycl. I. 639 Became Scriptor Apostolicus in the papal chancelry in Avignon, 1371.
c. The office attached to an embassy or consulate.
In British diplomatic use the official term is chancery (see chancery 5).
1869Echo 4 June, He will merely succeed the Clerk of the Chancellery, M. Farine, who has been assisting the United States' Minister in the task..of protecting the interests of the French residents. 1877Wallace Russia xxxiii. 560 The chancelleries of the courts. 1881Daily News 20 Jan. 3/4 The Chancelleries of the Great Powers consider the Turkish Note expressive of a willingness to make greater concessions. 1954[see chancery 5]. 1957Time 2 Sept. 19/1 Whether Syria's plain citizens realized it or not.., their country was the No. 1 topic in chancelleries and foreign offices around the world. 1958Economist 13 Sept. 815/2 There has been a clear and common idée en marche in the chancelleries of the Commonwealth.
3. The building or room occupied by the chancellor's office.
1831Remembrancer 251 [Cardinal Riario] employed many of the blocks of travertine..for constructing the chancellery. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair lxvii, Their French rivals shut up their chancellerie. 1884T. Hughes in Daily News 3 Mar. 6/1 [The bishop] striding along one morning on his way to his chancellery. 1885T. Mozley Remin. Towns, &c. I. 86 The friend, looking at him between the bars of his little chancellerie, asked his hotel. |