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单词 ealdordom
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ealdordomn.

Brit. /eɪˈaldədəm/, /ˈaldədəm/, U.S. /eɪˈældərdəm/, /ˈældərdəm/
Forms: early Old English aldurdom (Mercian), early Old English ealdordoom, Old English ealdordon (transmission error), Old English ealdurdom (rare), Old English ealldordom (rare), Old English (Middle English in copy of Old English charter) alderdom, Old English (chiefly Anglian) 1800s– aldordom Brit. /ˈɔːldədəm/, /ˈɒldədəm/, /ˈaldədəm/, U.S. /ˈɔldərdəm/, /ˈɑldərdəm/, /ˈældərdəm/, Old English–early Middle English ealderdom, Old English–early Middle English 1600s 1800s– ealdordom, late Old English eældordom, late Old English healdordom, early Middle English allderrdom ( Ormulum).
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: alder n.2, -dom suffix.
Etymology: < alder n.2 + -dom suffix.In sense 1b after ealdorman n. 1. Revived in historical use in the 17th cent. (usually with retention of an archaic spelling).
historical in later use.
1.
a. Lordship, chief authority; = aldership n. 1. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > [noun] > chief authority or dominion
ealdordomeOE
lord-domeOE
lordshipeOE
aldershipOE
danger?c1225
seignioryc1290
demesnec1300
lordheada1325
lordshippingc1384
dominationc1386
subjectiona1393
signory?a1425
dominionc1430
signority1525
seigniority1596
dynasty1613
seigniorage1656
eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care (Hatton) (1871) vii. 51 Ægðer ðissa [sc. requirements] gefylde Moyses ða he wiðsoc swa miclum ealdordome [L. praeesse tantae multitudini].
OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Luke xx. 20 Traderent illum principatui et potestati pręsidis : þætte saldon hine ðæm aldordom [OE Corpus Cambr. þam ealdron to dome] & to onwælde ðæs undercyninges.
OE Paris Psalter (1932) cxiii. 2 Hæfdan ealdurdom ofer Israhelas, mihta mære and mycel rice [L. Israhel potestas eius, Israhel regnauit in ea].
c1175 ( Ælfric Homily: St. Vincent's Day (Cambr. Ii.1.33) in S. Irvine Old Eng. Homilies (1993) 102 Andweard [altered to ȝeandweard] þam arleasan mid anrædum ȝeleafan, þæt his wodnys swa wurðe tobrut, mid ealdordome ures drihtnes soðlice mihte.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 18278 Ræfeþþ þe þin allderrdom.
1970 W. A. Chaney Cult of Kingship in Anglo-Saxon Eng. ii. 49 ‘Just as Augustus reigned over all the earth ere Christ came’, says an Anglo-Saxon homilist, ‘so now Christ has the aldordom of this and the next world’.
b. The position, rank, or office of an ealdorman. Also: the jurisdiction or territory of an ealdorman.In quot. OE: = earldom n.; compare discussion at ealdorman n. 1. Oslac (see quots. OE, 1876) ruled southern Northumbria under King Edgar (died 975); in Old English sources he is referred to both as ealdormann (i.e. ealdorman n. 1) and as eorl (i.e. earl n. 2); he was perhaps of Scandinavian descent.
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OE Laws of Edgar (Nero E.i) iv. xv. 214 Oslac eorl & eal here, þe on his ealdordome wunað.
lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 983 Her forðferde Ælfere ealdorman, & feng Ælfric to þam ilcan ealdordome [OE Tiber. B.i ealdordomscipe].
1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor ii. vi. 250 Saxon Ealdormen. Vicecomes with them. Their Ealdordom.
1818 S. Heywood Diss. upon Distinctions in Soc. ii. 57 For civil affairs an ealdorman, denominated the king's ealdorman, and from the latter the district over which he presided obtained the appellation of his ealdordom, or scire.
1844 Gentleman's Mag. May 449 (title) On the developement [sic] of the Anglo-Saxon ealdordom.
1868 H. Cox Antient Parl. Elections viii. 135 If all means of doing justice failed, the whole ealdordom, or district under the alderman, suffered the penalty of unfrith, or outlawry.
1876 W. F. Skene Celtic Scotl. I. vii. 369/1 In the same year Oslac obtained an aldordom.—Sax. Chron.
1908 W. G. Collingwood Scand. Brit. ii. 105 King Æthelstan..created out of East Anglia the first of the great ealdordoms, appointing to it Æthelstan of Devonshire, afterwards known as the ‘half-king’.
1981 D. G. Scragg Battle of Maldon (1991) 47 Ælfgar was not succeeded in the Essex ealdordom before 955.
2009 S. Jayakumar in S. D. Baxter Early Medieval Stud. Memory of Patrick Wormald xxii. 347 None of these houses lay within the core of his ealdordom.
2. In plural. The members of one of the nine orders of the celestial hierarchy, usually equated with principalities (principality n. 5); = aldership n. 2. Obsolete.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > angel > [noun] > order of > principalities
aldershipsOE
ealdordomsOE
princec1384
principatec1384
princehooda1425
princedom1667
principality1756
OE Glosses to Lorica of Laidcenn (Harl. 585) in E. Pettit Anglo-Saxon Remedies, Charms, & Prayers (2001) I. 42 Opto thronos, uiuentes [read uirtutes] archangelos, principatus et potestates, angelos : ic wisce þrymseld þa lyfiendan heahenglas aldordomas & duguðmehte ænglas.
OE Form of Adjuration (Corpus Cambr. 146) in F. Liebermann Gesetze der Angelsachsen (1903) I. 414 Þurh þa feower godspelleras..& þurh þa twelf witigan & þurh ealle Godes halegan þroweras & halige fæmnan & andetras, & ealdordomas & halige mihta & mægenu & anwealdu.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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