单词 | lords of the treasury |
释义 | > as lemmasLords (Commissioners) of the Treasury 12. Chiefly in plural. (The title of) a member of a board, department, delegation, etc., appointed to perform an important office of state and holding or exercising commissioned authority. Frequently in Lords (Commissioners) of the Admiralty, Lords (Commissioners) of the Treasury. In early use also: †a member of the monarch's council, in any of its various advisory, executive, or judicial capacities (cf. Lords of Council at council n. 7) (obsolete).Cf. also First Lord of the Admiralty n. at first adj., adv., and n.2 Compounds 1b(b), First Lord of the Treasury n. at first adj., adv., and n.2 Compounds 1b(b). ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > holder of office > high officials of state > [noun] > lord or first lord lord1398 First Lord of the Admiralty1723 First Lord1814 society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > government minister > [noun] > minister in British government > of specific department Chancellor of the Exchequerc1330 Lords (Commissioners) of the Treasury1642 foreign secretary1734 Home Secretary1784 war-minister1790 oil minister1960 society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > seafaring warrior or naval man > naval officials > [noun] > Lord of Admiralty First Lord of the Admiralty1723 Lords (Commissioners) of the Admiralty1739 First Lord1814 sea-lord1817 1398 in J. Slater Early Scots Texts (Ph.D. thesis, Univ. of Edinb.) (1952) No. 38 The withhaldars sal be constreignyt be the said lordis [sc. the Scottish and English commissaries] to restore the ravnson. 1477 in C. Innes Registrum Episcopatus Brechinensis (1856) I. 201 It is counsalit ws be the lordis off our counsale that [etc.]. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 2146/1 A supplication should be made to the lord Commissioners, in the name of the whole vniversitie. c1570 J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1830) 136 The lordis of the counsall maid thame to be aggryit thaireftir. 1642 C. Vernon Considerations Excheqver 54 Some of the Auditors of the Revenue having of late moved and pressed the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury. ?1648 Act to transmit into Chancery & Exchequer Orders Parl. 2 The Lords Commissioners of the Great Seale shall aswell award under the same Seale a Writ of Certiorari. 1653 Ld. Baltemore's Case 8 A business.., decided by the then Lords Commissioners for Forraign Plantations, against the sayd Capt. Cleyborn. 1678 in W. G. Scott-Moncrieff Rec. Proc. Justiciary Court Edinb. (1905) II. 332 The Lords Commissioners of Justitiary..remitts the samen [article of the dittay] to the knowledge of an assise. 1718 in G. Lamoine Charges to Grand Jury (1992) 90 Sir James Mountague, Knight, One of the Lords Commissioners of the Great-Seal. 1739 G. Murray Mem. George Baillie & Grisell Baillie (1822) 24 He was made one of the Lords of the Admiralty, and soon after one of the Lords of the Treasury. 1806 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. VI. 136 The Lords Commissioners in Barnes v. Crowe appeared to have held that [etc.]... Lord Commissioner Eyre stated the particular circumstances. 1840 United Services Jrnl. Jan. 114 The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have issued a memorandum to the fleet. 1884 S. Dowell Hist. Taxation in Eng. II. ii. iv. 116 George Grenville as a junior lord of the admiralty. 1959 J. M. Reid Scotl., Past & Present 110 They [sc. judges of Court of Session] are also Lords Commissioners of Justiciary, and may go on circuit to try criminal cases. 2003 Guardian 12 May 25/2 There is far less disagreement between the first and second lords of the Treasury than reports would suggest. < as lemmas |
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