单词 | chamberlainship |
释义 | chamberlainshipn. The position or office of chamberlain (in various senses); the period during which this office is held. Also with modifying word, in high chamberlainship, great chamberlainship, etc. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > holder of office > official of royal or great household > [noun] > chamberlain > office of chamberlainship1450 chamberlaincy1584 1450 T. Denys in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 38 The chaumberleynship of Inglond, the Lord Beamond hath it. 1485–6 Act of Resumption in Rolls of Parl.: Henry VII (Electronic ed.) Parl. Nov. 1485 m. 7 Thoffices of the liuetenauntshipe and justiciar and chamberlainshipe of Carmardeyneshire. 1542–3 Act 34 & 35 Hen. VIII c. 27. §28 Any office of Stewardships chamberlaineshyppes, chauncellourshippes, or iusticeshippes, within..Wales. 1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 506 Vpon the eighteenth day of Aprill, 1540. hee was inuested with the honour of the Earledome of Essex, and high Chamberlainship of England. 1647 Moderate Intelligencer No. 99. 874 Tis expected, that, after the Time, they be restored unto their Offices of Chamberlainship, and of the Chancery, and the rest of the dignities which they possessed heretofore. 1675 W. Dugdale Baronage Eng. I. 398/1 Farthermore, this William had by the Grant of that Duke, the Chamberlainship of his Treasury..with Livery, and all other its appurtenances. 1769 New & Compl. Hist. & Surv. Cities of London & Westm. 297/2 The office of receiver-general of the land-tax..had generally been annexed to the chamberlainship. 1791 R. B. Sheridan Let. Oct. (1966) I. 231 During the Chamberlainship of Lord Hertford, Mr. Harris and Mr. Sheridan obtain'd his Majesty's full consent. 1804 G. Rose Diaries (1860) II. 133 Lord Salisbury to be removed from the Chamberlainship. 1865 C. R. Leslie & T. Taylor Sir Joshua Reynolds ii. viii. 365 Comfortably berthed in the City Chamberlainship. 1884 B. Scott London Roll Fame 209 This Freedom was voted during the Chamberlainship of Sir John Key. 1903 E. Jenks Parl. Eng. vii. 189 Devonshire was dismissed from the Chamberlainship and the Privy Council with every circumstance of ignominy. 1935 D. Mathew in K. Garvin Great Tudors 140 The great chamberlainship also had descended through equally exalted generations. 1962 A. L. Rowse Sir Walter Raleigh ii. 31 Later, a chamberlainship of the Exchequer was added to Throckmorton's share. 1999 Court Historian 4 8 Saye probably resigned the chamberlainship of the household on his appointment as lord treasurer in 1449. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1450 |
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