单词 | county sheriff |
释义 | > as lemmascounty sheriff C1. attributive, with the sense ‘concerned in the administration of the affairs of a county; having authority, jurisdiction, or an official role in a county’, as county lieutenant, county magistrate, county sheriff, etc. ΚΠ 1319–20 Patent Roll, 13 Edward II (P.R.O.: C 66/152) m. 38v Nicholaus le Countereue. 1656 W. Sheppard (title) Survey of the County Judicatories. 1716 J. Winthrop Let. 21 Aug. in Winthrop Papers (1892) V. 324 I am notify'd by the County Sheriff..to answer before you to a very wrong complaint. 1761 H. Williams Memorial to Ld. Mayor in J. Entick New Hist. London (1766) IV. 372 The licencing public-houses by the county magistrates. 1780 T. Jefferson Let. 25 Dec. in Papers (1951) IV. 236 The County Lieutenants of Fayette Lincoln and Jefferson are ordered to rendezvous at the falls of the Ohio. 1795 M. Concanen & A. Morgan Hist. & Antiq. Parish St. Saviour's, Southwark 26 The compelling the inhabitants of the borough..to pay the county coroner. 1805 R. Forsyth Beauties Scotl. II. 265 The county hangman goes through the market, every market-day, with a brass ladle. 1853 Acts & Resolves 32nd Legislature State of Maine 24 The governor shall..appoint one county moose warden for each of the counties. 1886 A. H. Buck Ref. Handbk. Med. Sci. II. 304/1 In Mississippi the coroner is also the county ranger, and performs the duties of that office. 1907 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 1 551 In colonial times..county officials were often chosen year after year for a lifetime. 1938 M. Mitchell Let. 4 Sept. in Gone with the Wind Lett. (1986) 223 County agents were around preaching diversified crops. 1966 National Observer (U.S.) 19 Dec. 12/2 Democratic county chairmen hereabouts have..worked out a terrific combination of railroading, arm twisting, and snow jobbing. 1989 T. Parker Place called Bird ii. 13 The County Attorney is a Republican, but that makes no difference to us working together. 2008 Internat. Herald Tribune (Nexis) 2 Jan. 9 In a single month this autumn, the county recorder..was handed 1,200 documents for recording. < as lemmas |
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