单词 | collectorship |
释义 | collectorshipn. 1. The office of a collector. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > tax collection > [noun] > tax-collector > office of collectorship1553 1553 Act 7 Edw. VI c. 4 §2 Their said Office of Collectorship of the said Tenths. 1679 A. Wood Life (1848) 213 This Lent the collectors ceased from entertaining the bachelors..so that now they got by their collectorships, whereas before they spent about 100l. besides their gains. 1701 Answ. to Patrick Hurly's Vind. 10 He was recommended to the Collectorship of the County of Clare. 1857 J. Toulmin Smith Parish (new ed.) 180 The Poor Law Board..attempted..to take the collectorship out of the hands of those whom the collection alone concerned. 1873 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. 2nd Ser. 232 The Collectorship at Whitehaven was..offered to Wordsworth. 1884 Manch. Examiner 17 Nov. 5 3 The contest for a rate collectorship at Ashton. 2. In India; = collectorate n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > territory under a governor or official > [noun] > under tax-collector in India zamindari1742 collection1786 collectorship1789 collectorate1825 society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > taxation > [noun] > tax district collection1786 collectorship1789 collectorate1825 taxing district1890 1789 Colebrooke in Life (1873) 35 Some of the districts of this collectorship. 1793 Sir W. Jones in Asiatic Researches (London ed.) (1799) 4 9 In one collectorship..there have lately been found..a million and three hundred thousand native inhabitants. 1800 Duke of Wellington in Marquess Wellesley Select. Despatches (1877) 636 In regulating any of the collectorships in Bengal. 3. The practice of a professed collector of curiosities, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > collecting and storing > collecting curiosities, etc. collecting1706 collectorship1870 1870 Athenæum 15 Oct. 498 The growing spirit of collectorship in the United States. 1883 Dowden in Academy 24 Nov. 342/1 Contributions of real importance to the study of Goethe have been made by the spirit of collectorship aided by scientific criticism. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1553 |
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