| 单词 | mace-bearer | 
| 释义 | mace-bearern.  A person who carries a mace; spec. an official whose duty it is to carry a mace as a symbol of authority (esp. ceremonially), before a high dignitary. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > holder of office > ceremonial officials > 			[noun]		 > usher > mace-bearer macer1379 macea1525 mace-bearer1536 1536    in  York Civic Rec. 		(1945)	 IV. 30 May  				Maister Lawson..shall have the nominacon at his pleasour the rowne and office of maceberer of the said Citie after the decease of John Burton. 1552    R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum  				Mace bearer, cliduchus. 1683    Addr. from Oxford in  London Gaz. No. 1863/5  				Our respective Mayor, Bayliffs,..Town-Clerk, Mace bearer or any other Officers. 1687    A. Wood Life 3 Sept.  				Afterwards the macebearer put the mace into the mayor's hands. 1763    H. Walpole Catal. Engravers 		(1765)	 20  				John bishop of Lincoln, with purse-bearer, mace-bearer [etc.]. 1824    T. De Quincey Incognito in  Knight's Q. Mag. 3 143  				The chief-burgomaster..turned the mace-bearer out of the room. 1835    1st Rep. Commissioners Munic. Corporations Eng. & Wales App.  iii. 1686 in  Parl. Papers (H.C. 116) XXIV. 1  				Other officers of the Corporation [of Preston] are, Mace-Bearer, Beadle [etc.]. 1870    W. C. Bryant tr.  Homer Iliad I.  vii. 210  				The mace-bearer Areithous. 1976    C. Bermant Coming Home  ii. iii. 143  				The platform party enters, preceded by a mace bearer, and behind him..the Chancellor. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < | 
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