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sheriffdom|ˈʃɛrɪfdəm|
Forms: see sheriff; also Sc. 4 shera-, 5 sera-, schirra-, schirre-, serraf-, 6 syrefdom(e.
[-dom.]
1. A district or territory under the jurisdiction of a sheriff. Sc.
1385in 3rd Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. 410/1 In the sheradom of Perth. 1453Dunfermline Reg. (Bannatyne Club) 340 Landis..lyand in þe Regalite of Dunfermlyn and the serrafdome of fyff. 1457in Acts Parl. Scot. (1875) XII. 25/1 Quhilke assise [was]..chosin be þar avise of foure seradomes. 1549Compl. Scot. xii. 103 In the schirefdome of galloua. 1662Acts of Sederunt (1790) 84 Lands lyeing in several shirriffdoms. 1769De Foe's Tour Gt. Brit. (ed. 7) IV. 296 The Isle of Arran, which with Bute makes up one Sheriffdom. 1854Act 17 & 18 Vict. c. 91 §37 The sheriff of the sheriffdom in which the offence shall have been committed. 1854H. Miller Sch. & Schm. (1858) 52 The Hill..had borne the gallows of the sheriffdom on its crest. 1894Times 19 Dec. 8/2 To officiate also as Sheriff-Substitute of the Sheriffdom of Argyll.
transf.1762tr. Busching's Syst. Geog. V. 270 The sheriffdom of Altorf.
2. The office of sheriff.
1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. I. 127 This office na vthirwyse dependes than of heritage quhairthrouch vnto thame selfes thay ascriue schirrefdomes. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 578 This Sherifedome was..translated hereditarily into the family of the Beauchamps. 1628Wither Brit. Rememb. iv. 552 A Couple..that had the Sheriffedome Of London that sad yeare. 1806Scott Let. to Ellis 25 Jan. in Lockhart xv, The situation is..{pstlg}800 a-year, besides being consistent with holding my sheriffdom. 1819Monthly Mag. XLVIII. 5 It was thus that the hereditary sheriffdom of the county of Westmoreland came to the family of Tufton. 1877C. M. Yonge Cameos II. iii. 31 David bestowed on him the government of the castle, and the sheriffdom of Teviotdale. 1885H. B. Wheatley in Antiquary Feb. 48/1 He was afterwards deprived of his sheriffdom and of his aldermanic gown.
3. jocularly. The realm or order of sheriffs.
1904Sir H. Hawkins Remin. II. xliii. 47 All the pomp and splendour, in fact, that Sheriffdom was capable of. |