| 单词 | lord proprietor |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslord proprietor 2. spec. In pre-Independence North America and other British colonies: a person holding granted rights of government. Cf. proprietary n. 2b. Also more fully lord proprietor. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > possessor > [noun] > owner > landowner > owner of North American colony proprietary1637 proprietor1637 1637 in Arch. Maryland (1887) IV. 4 To answere the severall crimes of sedition, pyracie and murther w[hi]ch shalbe on the Lord Proprietors behalfe. 1680 J. Brown Remonstrance Grievances & Oppressions 2 Iames late Earl of Carlisle, by colour of a pretended Grant, as Lord Proprietor of the Caribee Islands..enters the said Island by force of Arms. 1688 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1852) I. 230 The Chieff Proprietor and Govr acquainted them that he had little more to say. 1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 410 We purchased of the Proprietors of the Colony, as much Land for 35 Pound..as would make a sufficient Plantation. 1751 Memorial St Lucia in Memorials Courts of Brit. & France (1756) 57 The ancient Proprietor Lord Carlisle, having surrendered his Patent, one Moiety of the Revenue of the Carribbee Islands was granted to Lord Willoughby. 1785 T. Jefferson Notes Virginia xxiii. 358 Surrender from the proprietors of E. and W. N. Jersey of their pretended right of government to her majesty Q. Anne. 1851 W. H. Dixon W. Penn xi. 368 The future lord proprietor of Pennsylvania. 1882 Cent. Mag. Apr. 943/1 The Carolina proprietors wanted the colonists to chase away the pirates who flocked into Charleston to buy sea-stores. 1960 J. Barth Sot-weed Factor ii. xxx. 448 Shall the Lord Proprietor learn that such crimes go unredressed in the inns of his province? 2004 G. C. Rhea Carrying Flag 26 Two rivers, later named the Ashley and the Cooper after Lord Ashley Cooper, a lord proprietor of the new colony. < as lemmas |
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