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单词 alnager
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alnagern.

Brit. /ˈɔːlnᵻdʒə/, U.S. /ˈɔlnɪdʒər/
Forms: 1500s alnageour, 1500s aulnegeour, 1500s auneger, 1500s awnager, 1500s–1600s alneager, 1500s–1600s aulneger, 1500s– alnager, 1600s allnager, 1600s alnageor, 1600s alniger, 1600s aulnegeor, 1600s awlneger, 1600s–1700s alneger, 1600s– aulnager.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: alnage n., -er suffix1.
Etymology: < alnage n. + -er suffix1. Compare earlier aulner n. N.E.D. (1884) records a 15th-cent. form aulneger, but without any exemplification.
Now historical.
An officer appointed to examine woollen cloth and certify its quality (see alnage n. 2).The position of alnager was formally abolished under English law in 1699. The title of Great Alnager of Ireland continued in use as a courtesy title of the Baron de Blaquiere until the death of the 6th Baron in 1920.
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1519 Statutes Prohemium Iohannis Rastell sig. C.ivv The aulnegeour shall take for euery cloth of assyse of the seller a half peny and of half a cloth a ferthynge for hys offyce.
?1533 tr. Act 25 Edward III in Great Bk. Statutes sig. F.v Al maner of clothes vendable..shalbe measured by the kynges aulnegeour [Fr. l'auneour le roi].
1535–6 Act 27 Henry VIII c. 12 §1 in Statutes of Realm (1963) III. 545 The same Clothes shalbe sealed by the Awnager of the same Counties.
1605 Proclam. James I 16 Sept. That all manner woollen cloth made within this same Realme to be sold, should be searched, measured and sealed by the Alnagers of her Progenitors.
1666 London Gaz. lxvi/2 A Bill for Regulating old and new Draperies, and appointing an Alneagers Office for sealing them.
?1712 Reasons Humbly offered against laying New Projected Duty Eng. Wrought Silks (single sheet) It is very fresh in Memory what Disturbance and Discontent..the Aulnagers Seal occasioned.
1752 London Mag. Dec. 669/2 Mr. Simons Mercer, appointed Deputy Alnager of Ireland (except for the City and Co. of Dublin).
1796 E. Burke Let. to Noble Lord 40 The aulnager, the weigher, the meter of grants, will not suffer us to acquiesce in the judgment of the Prince reigning at the time when they were made.
1838 J. Holt Memoirs II. 32 I was deputy alnager..which produced me from £80 to £100 a year.
1867 W. T. Brande & G. W. Cox Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art (new ed.) III. 893/2 These officers were called alnagers or ulnagers, and the accounts rendered by them to the exchequer are still preserved.
1908 G. T. Williams Hist. Rec. 11th Hussars 329 He [sc. John Blaquiere] was invested with the Order of the Bath, and in 1784 created a Baronet, sworn of the Privy Council in Ireland, and appointed H.M.'s Great Alnager of that Kingdom.
1938 H. M. Croome & R. J. Hammond Econ. Brit. iii. 30 Each piece, when approved, was sealed by the alnager's seal, without which it might not be sold.
1968 J. Thurkettle Outl. Social & Econ. Hist. Brit. I. 33 If the cloth was up to standard, the aulnager fixed his seal.
2007 G. Dodd Justice & Grace v. 137 In 1333 attention..was..focused on the sale of wine and on cloth workers and alnagers.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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