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单词 reeveship
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reeveshipn.

Brit. /ˈriːvʃɪp/, U.S. /ˈrivʃɪp/, Canadian English /ˈriːvʃɪp/
Forms:

α. Old English gerefscipe, Old English gerefscype.

β. early Middle English refschipe, 1600s 1800s– reeveship.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: reeve n.1, -ship suffix.
Etymology: < reeve n.1 (see forms at that entry) + -ship suffix.In early Middle English form refschipe probably aphetic < α. forms.
Now historical or regional (Canadian).
The position or office of reeve; the jurisdiction of a reeve. Also in extended use.
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society > authority > office > holder of office > magistrate > chief magistrate of a district > [noun] > position of
reeveshipeOE
praetorship1622
eOE Cleopatra Gloss. in W. G. Stryker Lat.-Old Eng. Gloss. in MS Cotton Cleopatra A.III (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) (1951) 109 Consulatus, gerefscipe.
lOE Laws of Æðelstan (Rochester) vi. viii. §4. 179 Habban þa gerefscypas begen þa fullan spæce gemæne,..a of scire on oðre þæt ælc gerefa fylste oðrum to ure ealra friðe.
c1225 (?c1200) St. Juliana (Bodl.) 69 Se riche refschipe to rihten & to readen.
c1225 (?c1200) St. Katherine (Bodl.) (1981) 5 (MED) Maxence steorede þe refschipe i Rome.
1631 in P. Bingham Rep. Court Common Pleas (1829) 5 340 A grant by Charles I..of..the reeveship of Greetham and the bailiwick of Greetham.
1633 A. Munday et al. Stow's Surv. of London (new ed.) 732/2 The said Office of Reeveship.
1800 J. B. Bird Orig. Precedents of Settlements 278 For the better and more effectually settling the said last mentioned castle, manors, lordships, reeveship, messuages, lands, tenements, and hereditaments.
1846 B. Thorpe tr. Ælfric Homilies ii. 95 Let none of them undertake any reeveship or mongering, for they are chosen from Worldly men to Gods' labour.
1873 Woodstock (Ont.) Sentinel 12 Dec. 3/2 The letter to the Excise Department that caused Mr. McWhinnie's involuntary retirement from the candidature for the Reeveship.
1927 Times 8 Nov. p. ix Thus early may have begun the union under one reeveship of the large city and the small shire [sc. London and Middlesex].
1993 Ottawa Citizen 25 Apr. a10 Frank Purvis, a retired Corrections Canada manager, easily won the reeveship.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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