vice-admiraln.
/ˌvʌɪsˈadm(ə)rəl/, /ˌvʌɪsˈadm(ə)rl̩/, U.S. /ˌvaɪsˈædm(ə)rəl/ 1.
a. A naval officer ranking next to an admiral.
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society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > seafaring warrior or naval man > leader or commander > [noun] > naval officer > flag officer > admiral > subordinate admirals
vice-admiral1520
rear admiral1589
under-admiral16..
Rear Admiral of England1684
Rear Admiral of Great Britain1707
port admiral1785
V.A.1794
1520 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. I. 165 Your Grace hath deputed the Master of the Rolles and the Vice Admirall to examyn the Inglysh marchaunts robbed and spoyled in September.
1562 Act 5 Eliz. c. 5 §33 The Lorde Admirall of Englande..or..any his Viceadmiralles.
1589 Summarie Drakes W. Indian Voy. 21 The Lieutenant generall, the Vizeadmirall, and all the rest of the Captaines.
1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies iii. xi. 156 Returning now to the Viceadmiralles shippe,..they tooke the sea.
1620 R. Cocks Diary (1883) II. 121 The admerall and vizadmerall gave hym to understand shipps were ready to departe.
1670 J. Covel Diary in J. T. Bent Early Voy. Levant (1893) 102 Capt. Robinson in the Greenwich, as Admiral,..and Capt. Wild, in the Assurance, as Vice-Admiral.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. i. viii. 135 I..desired his Imperial Majesty to lend me..three thousand Seamen under the Command of the Vice-Admiral.
1777 R. Watson Hist. Reign Philip II II. xxi. 259 Philip..giving him Martinez de Recaldo, a seaman of great experience, for his vice-admiral.
1833 Penny Cycl. I. 126/2 There are also vice-admirals and rear-admirals of each flag, the former ranking with lieutenant generals..in the army.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products 400/2 There are vice-admirals of three grades, who hoist respectively a red, white, or blue flag.
b. (See quot. 1769.)
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society > authority > office > holder of office > magistrate > chief magistrate of a district > [noun] > vice-admiral
vice-admirala1618
a1618 W. Raleigh Observ. Royal Navy (1650) 37 If the Vice-Admirall of the Shire where men are mustered..had directions given, to joyn with the Mustermasters.
1710 J. Chamberlayne Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (ed. 23) 581 A List of the Vice-Admirals. Sir John Molesworth, Bar., North parts of Cornwall. Earl Rivers, County of Essex [etc.].
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Admiral Vice-Admiral is also a civil officer appointed by the lords-commissioners of the admiralty. There are several of these officers established in different parts of Great-Britain, with judges and marshals under them, for executing jurisdiction within their respective districts.
1875 Encycl. Brit. I. 159/2.
c. (See admiral n. 2c.)
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > [noun] > captain or master > of merchant or fishing fleet
admiral1589
vice-admiral1698
fishing admiral-
1698 Act 10 Will. III c. 14 §4 That the Master of every such Second Fishing Ship as shall enter any such Harbour or Creeke [in Newfoundland] shall be Vice-Admirall of such..during that Fishing Season.
1708 Royal Proclm. June 26, in London Gaz. mmmmcccclii It is..Enacted, That whoever should after the said Five and twentieth Day of March, first enter with his Fishing-Ship, any Harbour or Creek in Newfoundland, should be for that Season Admiral of the said Harbour or Creek, and should reserve so much Beech or Flakes as should be necessary for his Boats, and One over, as a Privilege..; and the Master of the Second Fishing-Ship Entring such Harbour.., shall be Vice-Admiral, and the Master of the Third Ship.., Rear-Admiral for that Season..All Differences..shall be determin'd by the Fishing Admirals in the several Harbours; and an Appeal is given from such Judgment to the Commanders of the Men of War appointed Convoys for Newfoundland.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > flagship
admiral of the fleet1512
admiral ship1539
admiral1557
rear admiral1578
vice-admiralc1595
flag1652
flagship1672
c1595 Capt. Wyatt in G. F. Warner Voy. R. Dudley to W. Indies (1899) 3 Our Generall concluded that the vice-admerall with her pinness should sett saile and make for Plimworth before.
1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies i. ii. 4/1 Their names were the Admirall S. Phillip: the Vize Admirall S. Iacob. These were two new ships.
1629 J. Wadsworth Eng. Spanish Pilgrime iv. 34 The Captaine of the Vice-Admirall..began to encourage his Marriners.
1664 N. Ingelo Bentivolio & Urania: 2nd Pt. vi. 317 Lysander commanded the Vice-Admiral.
1693 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) III. 9 Another Tripoline, their vice admiral, was the next day taken by the Malta gallies.
3. Conchology. A variety of shell of the genus Conus.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Siphonostomata > family Conidae > member of genus Conus
High Admiral1757
vice-admiral1813
1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia (at cited word) There are four species of this shell, viz. the grand-admiral, the vice-admiral, the orange-admiral, and the extra-admiral.
Derivatives
vice-ˈadmiralship n.
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society > authority > office > holder of office > magistrate > chief magistrate of a district > [noun] > vice-admiral > position of
vice-admiralty1602
vice-admiralship1677
1677 Sir C. Wyche in C. E. Pike Essex Papers (1913) II. 118 That some man of integrity should succeed him in ye vice Admiralship of Munster.
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