ensigncyn.
/ˈɛnsʌɪnsi/, U.S. /ˈɛnsənsi/ The rank or position of an ensign in the army.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer by rank > [noun] > ensign > position of
colours1722
ensignship1745
ensigncy1767
ensignhood1842
1767 H. Kelly Babler II. 166 A paltry little ensigncy.
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 158 I purchased an ensigncy.
1800 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) I. 239 Recommended for the first vacant ensigncy in the 33rd regiment.
1860 J. P. Kennedy Quodlibet (ed. 2) xvii. 227 Accepting an ensigncy from the hands of Washington.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1767- to astonish the natives
- to attack a skirmish
- to attain to
- to attempt the life of
- to attend a person's water
- to attend a person's waters
- to attend from
- to attend, dog a person's steps
- to attend, dog steps
- to attorn tenant
- to attribute
- to attribute much
- to avail a person nothing
- to avail a person of
- to avail nothing
- to avail of
- to avail oneself of
- to avoid like the plague
- to avouch a thing upon
- to avouch a thing upon a person
- to avow on or upon
- to avow oneself on or upon
- to awake to
- to away with
- to back a horse