| 单词 | military divisions |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmilitary divisions b. spec. A portion of a country, territory, county, district, etc., as marked off for some political, military, administrative, judicial, or other purpose; e.g. the parliamentary or petty sessional divisions of the counties of the United Kingdom, the military divisions of the United States; the administrative divisions of the presidencies (except Madras) and provinces of British India, presided over by a commissioner, and subdivided into ‘districts’. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > an administrative division of territory > [noun] purprisea1275 member?a1425 precinct1447 lordshipa1450 captainate1593 region1593 partiality1601 division1640 peopledom1657 convent1658 district1667 mastership1707 superintendency1798 area1849 1640 in J. Nicholson Minute Bk. War Comm. Covenanters Kirkcudbright 3 Nov. (1855) 73 The Committie ordaines that everie captaine, within this divisione, bring in all the runawayes to the next Committie day. 1709 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) VI. 463 The constable..was out of his division. 1751 S. Whatley England's Gazetteer at Truro The quarter-session for its S. and W. divisions being generally held here. 1802 R. Brookes Gen. Gazetteer (ed. 12) Kesteven, one of the three divisions of Lincolnshire. 1835 Penny Cycl. IV. 479/2 [article Blackburn] A sort of supreme authority is vested in two officers..called high-constables, one for the higher and the other for the lower division of the hundred. 1837 Penny Cycl. VIII. 456/2 [article Devonshire] The county is divided into two parts for the purpose of parliamentary representation: each division sends two members. 1881 W. W. Hunter Imperial Gazetteer India I. 531 Benares—a Division under a Commissioner in the North-Western Provinces, comprising the six Districts of Azamgarh, [etc.]. 1895 Oxf. Direct. Oxford, the capital of and a polling place for the Mid division of the county..is locally in the hundred and petty sessional division of Bullingdon. < as lemmas |
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