单词 | ealdormanry |
释义 | ealdormanryn. Anglo-Saxon History. The territory or office of an ealdorman. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > [noun] > position or function of regimenta1393 rectorshipa1616 government1617 rulership1625 ruleship1654 ealdormanry1870 governorate1939 society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > [noun] > territory governed by a ruler or state demesnea1387 principalitya1398 territory?a1439 dominationc1440 statea1500 dominion1512 dition1542 heretochy1587 domain1601 sovereignty1715 possession1797 daimiote1870 ealdormanry1870 1870 Academy Feb. 134/2 We can hardly wonder that Mr. Pearson has confounded the aldermanry of Peada with his later kingdom. 1883 J. R. Green Conquest Eng. iv. 144 A mint which Ælfred set up at Oxford within the borders of the Mercian Ealdormanry. 1915 B. A. Lees Alfred the Great vi. 187 Henceforward Mercia ceases to be an independent English kingdom, though the great Mercian ealdormanry or earldom had its own witan, and retained a large measure of autonomy under Ethelred. 1955 Trans. Royal Hist. Soc. 5 36 From 932 to 992 the ealdormanry of East Anglia was held by Athelstan. 1999 C. A. Jones Ælfric's Let. to Monks of Eynsham i. 13 Political pressures would also account for the location of the house of his retirement at Eynsham rather than in the territories of his father's ealdormanry. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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