单词 | pristav |
释义 | pristavn. Now historical. In Imperial Russia: (originally) an official appointed to receive and take care of foreign ambassadors; (later) a commissioner, police commander, or overseer. ΘΚΠ society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > policeman > head of police force > foreign commissaire1386 pristav1568 kotwal1582 provost marshal1619 commissary1787 police-master1798 thanadar1802 quaestor1862 ispravnik1886 1568 T. Randolph Ambassage in R. Hakluyt Principal Navigations (1589) II. ii. 401 The two Gentlemen, Pristaues (as they cal them) came vnto me. 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 178 To his knowledge, the Pristaf was a person of honour. 1671 J. Crowne Juliana i. 4 A Russian Sir! a Pristaffe's son of Archangelo. 1693 tr. P. Avril Trav. Europe & Asia iv. 54 The Czars sent a Pristave to Father Beauvallier, and my self..to order us to depart. 1837 T. De Quincey Revolt of Tartars in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 98/1 He was styled the Grand Pristaw, or Great Commissioner, and was universally known amongst the Tartar tribes by this title. 1889 G. Kennan in Cent. Mag. Apr. 893/1 The original report of a Russian police pristav, written upon a printed form. 1893 Littell's Living Age 4 Feb. 377/1 One day, to the immense astonishment of the foreign merchant and his staff, the office was visited by a pristaf, or chief officer of the police force. 1929 tr. P. England in O. von Reiseman Moussorgsky vii. 190 An order from the Boyars to the people (through the mouth of the Pristav) to present themselves the next day at the Kremlin. 1952 A. J. Barnouw Pageant of Netherlands History vii. 208 The pristafs would not even permit young Witsen to receive a visitor who had undertaken to teach him Russian. 1999 D. Wolff To Harbin Station 182 In 1920, Timovskii had been chosen pristav (appointed overseer) for the tenth mission. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1568 |
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