单词 | lord keeper |
释义 | Lord Keepern. historical in later use. (The title of) an officer of state in England with custody of the Great Seal; = (Lord) Keeper of the Great Seal n. (a) at Great Seal n.1 2a.This title has not been granted since 1757: see note at (Lord) Keeper of the Great Seal. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > holder of office > high officials of state > [noun] > Lord High Chancellor or Great Seal Chancellor of EnglandOE Chancellor of EnglandOE (Lord) Keeper of the Great Seal1545 Lord Keeper1562 custos sigilli1589 1562 Articles for Execution Statutes of Apparell So to continue as by the sayd Lord Chauncellour, or Lord keper shalbe prescribed. 1567 T. Stapleton Counterblast i. ii. f. 11 He for his parte thought it not good to disobey the Quenes highnes commaundemente therein and thervppon offered himselfe to beginne the disputation, and the Lord keper would not permit him so to doe. 1617 J. Chamberlain Let. 15 Mar. in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times James I (1848) (modernized text) I. 466 Our new lord keeper goes with great state, having a world of followers put upon him. 1631 in S. R. Gardiner Rep. Cases Star Chamber & High Comm. (1886) 58 My Lord Keeper tould him it was noe tyme to dispute with the sentence, but to obey. a1734 R. North Examen (1740) iii. viii. §26 He found no formalising Scruples on the Lord Keeper's Part. 1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) II. 222 On debate the plea was allowed by Lord Keeper Bridgeman. 1935 S. E. Morison Founding of Harvard Coll. 107 Archbishop Williams, the Lord Keeper who had protected the Cambridge puritans, was forced to resign the Great Seal. 1977 L. A. Knafla Law & Politics Jacobean Eng. vii. 157 The Lord Keeper was now able to use his influence in the Rolls to shape the progress of the court over which he presided. 2010 I. Bell Elizabeth I. iv. 47 To officially open parliament on January 25, Lord Keeper Nicholas Bacon gave the two traditional speeches on the monarch's behalf. Derivatives ˌLord ˈKeepership n. the office or position of Lord Keeper. ΚΠ a1670 J. Hacket Scrinia Reserata (1693) i. 56 The Lord-Keepership is an Employment merely Secular. 1885 Encycl. Brit. XIX. 662/1 The last appointment to the lord keepership was that of Sir Robert Henley, afterwards Lord Henley, lord chancellor.., and the office is not likely to be revived. 1939 Trans. Royal Hist. Soc. 21 125 The bishop had succeeded to the Lord Keepership after the disgrace of Bacon, and had retained it up till 1626. 2009 J. Cannon Oxf. Dict. Brit. Hist. (rev. ed.) 408/1 The lord keepership seems to have been used when the holder did not have the standing necessary for the chancellorship. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1562 |
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