mayoraltyn.
/ˈmɛːrəlti/, /ˈmɛːrl̩ti/, U.S. /ˈmeɪərəlti/, /ˈmɛrəlti/ 1. The position or office of mayor.
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society > authority > office > holder of office > magistrate > municipal magistrate > [noun] > chief magistrate or mayor > position of
mayoralty1387
portreeveship1467
mayorship1476
mayorhood1556
mayordom1566
mayoraltyship1582
chair1682
Lord Mayoralty1763
1387–8 Petition London Mercers in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 34 The eleccion of Mairaltee is to be to the fre men of the Citee.
1438–9 in Hist. MSS Comm.: 10th Rep.: App. Pt. V: MSS Marquis of Ormonde &c. (1885) 330 in Parl. Papers (C. 4576-I) XLII. 1 Ony citsaine bering office of Mairaltie or of balifs.
1534 R. Whittington tr. Cicero Thre Bks. Tullyes Offyces i. I.2 Pericles sayd well whan he had a felowe in offyce in his mayraltie [L. in prætura] called Sophocles poete.
c1571 E. Campion Two Bks. Hist. Ireland (1963) ii. vii. 106 This maioraltye bothe for state and charge of that office..excedeth any citye of England except London.
a1602 Epit. in Church at Hythe in J. Manningham Diary (1976) 83 Three suites gott of the Crowne, The Mortmaine, fayre, and Mayralty, For Heith this auncient Towne.
1702 Case Toleration Recogniz'd 17 The May'ralty and other Offices are confin'd to their City Councils.
1851 D. G. Mitchell Fresh Gleanings 75 The office of Mayoralty in the..American cities.
1890 C. Gross Gild Merchant I. 97 The mayoralty, which gave them a chief officer of their own election.
1925 Amer. Mercury Feb. 172/1 All of this was after he had made a vigorous but ineffectual campaign for the mayoralty of Chicago.
1991 French Hist. 5 309 After the prefect had accepted his resignation from the mayoralty, Fraisse stayed on as a member of the municipal council.
2. The fact of being mayor; the period of office of a mayor.
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society > authority > office > holder of office > magistrate > municipal magistrate > [noun] > chief magistrate or mayor > position of > period of office of
mayoralty1441
1441 in H. Nicolas Proc. & Ordinances Privy Council (1835) V. 166 John Combe, John Balmar..late maires of Colchester..heringe tell that one Thomas Bocher..had empeached hem to þe Kyng..in the tyme of their meiraltees.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. xxixv The Mayraltie of Iohn Tolesham.
1540 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 159 Hys ij yeres mayreraltie.
1632 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 480 The yeare of the myraltie of Sir Vallentin Blake.
1727 W. Mather Young Man's Compan. (ed. 13) 105 Nor has the Lord Mayor of London, during his Mayorality, a less Title than Right Honourable.
1747 C. Colden Hist. Five Nations of Canada 269 In case the Mayor of the said City for the Time being, shall, during the Time of his Mayoralty, misbehave himself.
1764 E. Milward Let. 28 Apr. in Jenkinson Papers (1949) 288 Several freemen..died in my Mayoralty.
1851 H. S. Thirlway Jrnl. 20 Jan. (1996) ix. 71 By agreement the Mayor is to give one dinner during his Mayoralty.
1870 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 108 Of his mayoralty we have another anecdote.
1964 D. M. Frame Montaigne xiv. 246 The first year after his mayoralty..Montaigne apparently spent quietly at home.
1994 Daily Tel. 25 Aug. 21/3 Sir Allan Davis..was a former Lord Mayor of London who took ‘service with a smile’ as the theme of his mayoralty.
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society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > territory under a governor or official > [noun] > under a Dutch or Swiss mayor
mayory1647
mayoralty1705
1705 London Gaz. No. 4113/3 The Mayoralty of Boisleduc..and the Country beyond the Maese, are directed to have in a readiness 1700 Wagons.
Compounds
General attributive.
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1573 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 423 Mr. Andrew Brown..beinge then in his Meralty office.
1647 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 496 Wee..thought fitt to record the same in the Mearaltie booke of this Corporation.
1822 Countess of Blessington Magic Lantern 22 The Lord Mayor's coach, with all the paraphernalia of mayoralty finery.
1887 Dict. National Biogr. XI. 102/2 The mayoralty pageant provided by the Ironmongers' Company for Clitherow.
1969 Internat. Herald Tribune (Paris) 6 Nov. 3/2 The impact on the..13 partisan mayoralty races around the country was difficult to determine immediately.
1992 Chatelaine June 51/1 She ended up trouncing her main mayoralty opponent by about a two-to-one margin.
Derivatives
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society > authority > office > holder of office > magistrate > municipal magistrate > [noun] > chief magistrate or mayor > position of
mayoralty1387
portreeveship1467
mayorship1476
mayorhood1556
mayordom1566
mayoraltyship1582
chair1682
Lord Mayoralty1763
1582 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 432 The office of Meraltyship.
1600 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 459 The office of Maioraltishipp or Baillifshipp.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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