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单词 under-captain
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under-captainn.

Etymology: under- prefix1 3a(a).
Obsolete.
A captain subordinate to another. In quots. 15261, 15263 = ‘centurion’.
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1442 Rolls of Parl. V. 60/1 All these saide Shippes..to obey suche rewle..as be their Capitayne and undre Capitayns shall to hem be ordeyned.
c1450 Harl. Contin. Higden (Rolls) VIII. 453 That he delyvered..the castell.., when he was undercapiten, to the kynge of Fraunce.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Acts xxi. 32 The hye captayne..toke soudiers and vndercaptynes.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Acts xxi. 33 When they sawe the vpper captayne, etc.]
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Acts xxvii. 11 The vndercaptayne beleved the gouerner..better then..Paul.
1550 R. Crowley Way to Wealth sig. Bvii He woulde not harken to the right aduice of Achior hys vndercaptaine.
1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. iii. xi. §5. 136 Fame and high reputation..hee lost againe as easily, by meanes of some slight injurie done to them by his vnder-Captaines.
1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. (1655) x. 35 Also there were other Gentlemen, that were Under-captains, but a small number.
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