单词 | officialship |
释义 | officialshipn. Now rare. The role or position of an official. In early use spec.: †the office or dignity of an Official Principal; (also) a body of such officials (obsolete). Cf. officiality n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > [noun] > office of prelacya1387 pontificals?a1475 officialshipc1475 bishopric1520 high priesthood1535 superintendence1561 prelateship1570 pontificality1593 officiality1597 prelature1602 prelation1611 prelaty1641 pontificacy1665 pontificate1702 officialty1720 presulate1853 c1475 in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (Harl. 642) (1790) 27 (MED) These lordes rewarde theire..chapleyns with officyalshippes, deaneries, prebendes. c1533 T. Cranmer Let. in Remains (1833) I. 67 Which said Thomas Eton..exercised the room of the officialship in Exetre. 1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 345 A Canonry, and an Officialship of the said Church, he kept to his dying day. 1762 P. Murdoch tr. A. F. Büsching New Syst. Geogr. IV. 331 The officialship has the direction of all persons and things relating to the service of religion. 1999 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. (Nexis) 16 Aug. 1 c I got a federal officialship, working for him [sc.a judge] as a court reporter. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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