释义 |
ˈshepherdship rare. [f. shepherd n. + -ship.] The office or position of a shepherd.
1548Udall Erasm. Par. Luke xxiv. 25–29. 90 His shepherdship leat an other bodye take. 1605Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iii. iii. Law 233 While he [Moses] past his sacred Prentiship (In wildernesse) of th' Hebrews Shepheardship. 1874Abp. Benson in A. C. Benson Life (1899) I. 388 It's the Buckles that ruin the Colonial Church... Men taking Shepherdships for Buckles and Loops. |