单词 | marquisate |
释义 | marquisaten. 1. In some continental European countries: the territorial lordship or possessions of a marquis or margrave. Also (in extended use): the territory or possessions of a person of comparable rank in other areas. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > real or immovable property > land > land owned or occupied by specific class of person cotlanda1150 knighttec1380 lairdship1397 thanage14.. marchionatc1449 pittancery1519 marquesya1525 marquisdom1530 marquisatea1544 peership1594 peerdom1611 vavasory1611 thane-landa1641 marquisshipa1680 starosty1681 freedom1752 peerage1759 pollam1765 senatory1804 squireship1824 majorat1827 dukery1837 patroonship1848 squatment1860 society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > marquis or marchioness > [noun] > marquis > rank of marquis marquisship1464 marquisatea1544 a1544 R. Barlow tr. M. Fernández de Enciso Brief Summe Geogr. (1932) 54 Beyonde mylan is the marcusado of mantua and verona and next to that is padua which is by venyse. 1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Marquesado A Marquessate. a1613 E. Brerewood Enq. Langs. & Relig. (1614) Pref. sig. ¶2 The Marchesates of Silesia and Brandeburge. a1613 E. Brerewood Enq. Langs. & Relig. (1614) Pref. sig. ¶3v The Marchesates of Lusatia, Morauia [etc.]. 1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 300 In Germany (you are to understand) a Dukedome may be contained within a Marquisate. 1711 London Gaz. No. 4803/1 An Earthquake has been felt in the Marquisate of Ancona. 1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. 261 In that part of Upper Saxony beyond the Elbe, which is at present called the Marquisate of Lusace, [etc.]. 1842 T. B. Macaulay Frederic the Great in Edinb. Rev. Apr.–July 223 Rheinsberg is a fertile and smiling spot, in the midst of the sandy waste of the Marquisate. 1890 Catholic World May 202 The marquisate of Montcornet..was in the bishopric of Laon. 1958 R. Liddell Morea iii. ii. 236 They [sc. the Venieri lords of Cerigo] were absentee landlords,..leaving an agent to manage the affairs of their marquisate. 1991 Amer. Hist. Rev. 96 1104 They contacted the merchants of Kongo's marquisate of Nzombo, whose operations extended to the east. 2. In Britain and Ireland: the rank or dignity of a marquess. Formerly also: †the place from which a marquess takes his title (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > marquis or marchioness > [noun] > marquis > place from which marquis takes title marquisate1675 1570 Bk. Precedence (Harl. 1440) in F. J. Furnivall Queene Elizabethes Achademy (1869) 15 A Marquesse must goe after his Creation, and not after his marquisate. 1606 W. Birnie Blame of Kirk-buriall Ded. sig. B2v Your spouse now the yong fruteful Matriarch of that multi-potent Marquesad [of Hamilton]. 1675 J. Ogilby Britannia 4 Worcester..a city honoured with the title of Marquisate in the Right Noble Henry Marquess and Earl of Worcester. 1713 E. Ward Hist. Grand Rebellion III. 565 Rising by Merit, which was truly great, First from an Earldom to a Marquisate. 1762 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting I. vi. 128 She restored him too to the Marquisate of Exeter. 1844 B. Disraeli Coningsby I. i. ii. 18 The very day he was raised to his Marquisate, he commenced sapping fresh corporations. 1876 Appletons' Jrnl. 22 Jan. 123/3 The representatives of a marquisate of the fourteenth century are now the chiefs of a school for young ladies in Philadelphia. 1902 Athenæum 26 Apr. 521/2 On the duke's death the marquessate of Douglas..passed to the Duke of Hamilton, as male heir. 1978 M. Girouard Life in Eng. Country House iv. 83 In the mid sixteenth century the profits of the Duke of Somerset's steward..enabled him to build his great house at Longleat and launch his family on the way to a marquisate. 1989 Spectator 15 Apr. 8/3 This last marquessate is slightly bogus, as it belongs to a commoner. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1544 |
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