单词 | mandarinate |
释义 | mandarinaten.ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > holder of office > public officials > [noun] > in old China > body of or collectively mandarinate1728 mandarindom1870 society > authority > office > holder of office > public officials > [noun] > in old China > office of mandarinship1697 mandarinate1801 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Mandarin The Mandarinat is not hereditary, nor are any raised to it but Men of Letters. 1801 Asiat. Ann. Reg. 1800: Chron. 120/2 The sale of the mandarinates and public employs of the empire. 2. A body of mandarins; mandarins collectively. Also: government by mandarins. Now chiefly in extended sense (cf. mandarin n.1 1c). ΚΠ 1884 J. Rae Contemp. Socialism 383 With the socialist mandarinate, the interest lies the other way, and the tendency of the head officials would be to multiply their subordinates. 1889 Times 27 Sept. 13/4 The civil office controls the members of the mandarinate both as regards pay and promotion. 1920 H. G. Wells Outl. Hist. 161/2 Over the masses of China,..because of the complexities of the written language, the mandarinate has prevailed. 1967 Sunday Times 5 Feb. 10/5 140 of them were professors, 25 of them Fellows of the Royal Society. It was..the British mandarinate. 1994 Times 1 Nov. 12/4 Peace with its Arab neighbours will tax the resources of Israel's overstretched mandarinate. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1728 |
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