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单词 veedor
释义

veedorn.

Forms: Also 1500s veadore, viador.
Etymology: < Spanish veedor, Portuguese vedor, veador, viador, < ver to see.
Obsolete.
An official invested with inspecting or controlling power.
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society > authority > office > holder of office > public officials > [noun] > inspector
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1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. v. f. 115 One Gonzalus Fernandus Ouiedus beinge one of the maiestrates appointed in that office which the Spanyardes caule Veedor.]
1595 L. Lewkenor Estate Eng. Fugitives sig. G Sammariba, the Veedors chiefe officer.
1612 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don-Quixote: Pt. 1 iii. viii. 192 The office of a Bawde..should not be practised but by people well borne; and ought besides to haue a Veedor, and examinator of them.
β. 1589 A. Ingram Let. 9 Sept. in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations iii. 818 Wee spake with his Viadore, or chiefe man, that hath the dealing with the Christians.1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes II. vii. 949 (Guinea) They haue one attending on them, whom they call Viador (which word they haue learned of the Portugals); hee is the Kings Treasurer, and keepeth his Gold and other Riches.
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