† mobshipn.
Obsolete.
1. ironic. With possessive adjective: a mock title of respect given to a member of a mob.Apparently an isolated use.
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1830 Fraser's Mag. 1 457 The two gentlemen..smile condescendingly on the mobility, cut a curvet in the air to shew their mobships that they are clever lively divinities, and finally [etc.].
2. Mob rule.Apparently an isolated use.
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1893 T. H. Huxley Evol. & Ethics 51 The Ionian politics had passed through the whole gamut of social and political changes—from patriarchal..kingship to rowdy..mobship.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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n.1830- to set amadding
- to set an example
- to set aon madding
- to set apart
- to set apart from the crowd
- to set aside
- to set aside on side
- to set astray
- to set asunning
- to set asunshining
- to set at
- to set at a jar
- to set at a pease, at a pie's heel, at a pin's fee
- to set at bay
- to set at cinque and sice
- to set at contempt
- to set at debate
- to set at defiance
- to set at difference
- to set at ease, at rest, to rest, in or at peace
- to set at fault
- to set at flow
- to set at gaze
- to set at jars
- to set at large