consulshipn.
/ˈkɒnsəlʃɪp/ The office of consul, the term of this office:figurative.1656 A. Cowley Misc. 13 in Poems The Consulship of Wit and Eloquence.figurative.1668 E. Kemp Reasons Sole Use of Churches Prayers 7 She cannot trust to the skill and arts of any private Priest to transact by way of agency or consulship for her.† c. of a consul of Venice. Obsolete.
a. of a Roman consul.
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society > authority > office > holder of office > Roman magistrates and officials > [noun] > consul > office or term of
consulatea1387
consulship1541
1541 T. Paynell tr. Felicius Conspiracie of Catiline xii. f. 17 This rumour..dydde greatly hyndre Catiline in requeste of the Consulshyppe.
1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Life Agricola in tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. 242 And after his Consulshippe [he] solemnized the mariage.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) ii. ii. 2 How many stand for Consulships ? View more context for this quotation
a1794 E. Gibbon Memoirs in Misc. Wks. (1796) I. 93 The vanity of Tully was doubly interested in the Greek memoirs of his own consulship.
1869 J. R. Seeley Lect. & Ess. i. 5.
b. of a modern commercial consul.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > diplomacy > [noun] > ambassador or envoy > resident ambassador > consul > position of
consulship1615
consulagea1684
consulate1702
consulacy1850
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 85 The English Consulship of Chios is in his disposing.
1686 London Gaz. No. 2135/8 His Majesty..has been Graciously pleased to bestow upon him the Consulship of Rotterdam.
1883 Cent. Mag. 26 275/2 I shall..strike for..some small consulship perhaps.
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society > authority > office > holder of office > public officials > [noun] > in Venetian republic > office of
consulship1677
1677 tr. A.-N. Amelot de La Houssaie Hist. Govt. Venice 103 These two Consulships are..conferred upon two of the most indigent of the Nobility, because they are Places of great Profit, and little Expence.
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