单词 | under-king |
释义 | under-kingn. A prince or ruler subordinate to a chief king. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > sovereign ruler or monarch > king > [noun] > underking under-kingc950 c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. x. 18 Hia gesellas forðon iuih in gemotum..& to under-cyningum..fore meh. c1060 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (MS. C) ann. 1056 Swa þæt Griffin swor aðas þæt he wolde beon Eadwarde kinge hold underkingc. c1175 12th Cent. Hom. (1909) 22 Underkyng is ihaten þe under þam casere rixæð. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 15644 Cadwalan..nom him to rede..þat he aȝain wolde..and bi-teche Penda þe wes his under-kinge. folc and his ferde. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1876) VI. 275 He put out Egbertus þe sone of Alcmundus þe underkyng. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. cxl*. f. lxxiiii This Kyngedome..and the Kynges therof namyd vnderkynges. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. viii. 110 From the great Monarks we come to the Kings of seuerall Nations, and from them to vnderkings of Prouinces. 1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. ii. 26 Each having its own Ealdorman or Under-King, though united under one supreme chief. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People i. §3. 18 The under-kings of Essex and East-Anglia received the creed of their overlord. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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