单词 | stadholder |
释义 | stadholderstadtholdern. Historical. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer according to function > [noun] > commander of fortress or garrison warden1297 alcaydec1503 governor1523 burgrave1551 stadholdera1626 Town Major1646 commandant1687 dizdar1768 killadar1778 kaïd1816 a1626 J. Horsey Relacion Trav. in E. A. Bond Russia at Close of 16th Cent. (1856) 190 The centinell brought me to the statholder or liftenant of the castell. 2. Netherlands History. a. Originally: a viceroy or lieutenant governor of a province or provinces. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > governor of province, dependency, or colony > governors by country > [noun] > Dutch stadholder1668 stadholderess1737 1668 London Gaz. No. 226/4 Zealand and Friezland are as yet for his admission as Stadtholder. 1673 H. Stubbe Further Iustification War against Netherlands To Rdr. 11 Twice we find the State-holders to have acted Authoritatively. 1701 N. Grew Cosmol. Sacra iii. i. §35 The United Provinces, with their Statholder, and the Venetians, with their Doge. b. The title borne by the chief magistrate of the Dutch republic.In the latter use, the title was first conferred by the States-General on William of Orange in 1580, and implied a nominal recognition of the sovereignty of the king of Spain. When the independence of the republic was acknowledged, the title of the office (hereditary in the house of Orange) remained unchanged. The stadholdership was abolished in 1802. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > head of government > [noun] > in a republic > in Dutch republic stadholder1753 1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea II. xlviii. 328 William, sirnamed the great, was the first stadt-holder, and may be properly called the founder of the republic. 1825 T. B. Macaulay Milton in Edinb. Rev. Aug. 335 [Cromwell] demanded indeed the first place in the commonwealth; but with powers scarcely so great as those of a Dutch stadtholder, or an American President. 1876 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. (rev. ed.) II. xxii. 36 The friends of the stadholder asserted sovereignty for the states-general. 3. Used to render the etymologically equivalent German statthalter, Danish statholder, lieutenant-governor, viceroy. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > governor of province, dependency, or colony > [noun] grievec950 warden1297 presidenta1382 procuratora1382 governora1393 seneschalc1400 lieutenant1423 promissary?c1500 governator1522 provincial1590 ethnarch1602 state governor1608 proconsul1650 stadholder1704 superintendent1758 meridarch1866 prez.1919 1704 London Gaz. No. 4015/2 The Emperor has Appointed the Count de Louvenstein,..to be Stadholder of the Upper Palatinate. 1886 T. Michell Sc. Exped. to Norway i. vii. 52 The Norwegian Stadtholder. Derivatives stadholderess n. a female stadholder; the wife of a stadholder. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > governor of province, dependency, or colony > governors by country > [noun] > Dutch stadholder1668 stadholderess1737 1737 G. Smith Curious Relations I. 141 A free Pardon from Queen Mary, Sister to the Emperor Charles, then Stadtholderess. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.a1626 |
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