单词 | vaivode |
释义 | vaivoden. Now Historical. A local ruler or official in various parts of south-eastern Europe (in older use esp. in Transylvania). ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > governor of province, dependency, or colony > governors by country > [noun] > in South-East Europe vaivode1560 voivode1570 waywode1656 α. figurative.1613 T. Dekker Strange Horse-race sig. D4v Behemah Dornschweyn,..chiefe Vayuode of Vsury, Symony, Bribery, Periury,..[etc.].β. 1562 J. Shute tr. in Two Comm. Turcks ii. f. 7 John Uaiuoda soughte to haue al the glorie of the victorie to him selfe.1601 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Trauellers Breuiat 42 The Vaiuods of Valachia, Moldauia and Transiluania hold their estates by vertue of this briberie.1696 tr. J. Dumont New Voy. Levant xix. 242 The Government of the Cities is manag'd by Five Kinds of Officers, the Bassa, Sub-Bassa, Vaivode, Cadi and Receiver of the Customs.1771 W. Guthrie's Geogr. (ed. 3) 114 Their ancient nobility were divided into knezes, or knazeys, boyars, and vaivods.1777 Ann. Reg. 1776 ii. 7 At Athens..his patrimony had suffered from the extortions of a tyrannical Vaiwode.1833 H. Ellis Elgin Marbles I. i. 2 Lord Elgin then received very strongly expressed firmauns from the Porte, which were carried..to the Vaivode of Athens and the Disdar of the Acropolis.in extended use.1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. ii. xiv. 199 Andriscus.., deliuered vp into our hands, by that Vaiuod, or pety king of Thrace, to whom hee had fled for succour.1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. lxxj He had an aduersarye Iohn Sepuse, the vayuode of transsyluania. 1590 J. Smythe Certain Disc. Weapons 44 b In a great battaile fought betwixt him and that famous Vayuod Iuan Huniades Coruino. 1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 579 The one [sister], marryed to the King of Poland; the other, to Sigismund Battor, Prince or Vayvod of Transilvania. 1685 London Gaz. No. 2070/2 The Vayvode Janco was drawing together a great Body of Morlacks with a design to attack some place in the Province of Bosnia. 1769 Ann. Reg. 1768 i. 19 Count Potocki, Vaywode of Kiow, had no less than ten towns, and one hundred and thirty villages, destroyed in his own territories. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1560 |
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