单词 | viceroy |
释义 | viceroyn. 1. One who acts as the governor of a country, province, etc., in the name and by the authority of the supreme ruler; a vice-king. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > governor of province, dependency, or colony > [noun] > viceroy deputyc1490 viceroy1524 vizrey1583 prorex1589 vice-king1589 society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > governor of province, dependency, or colony > [noun] > viceroy > one having authority like viceroy1524 viceroya1592 α. β. 1582 N. Lichefield tr. F. L. de Castanheda 1st Bk. Hist. Discouerie E. Indias i. lxxvi. 156 b And so they remained untill the comming of the Vizeroye Don Francisco de Almeda.1590 E. Webbe Rare & Wonderfull Things f. 5 These 60. kings are all his Uize Royes in seuerall places.1601 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Trauellers Breuiat 178 The Vizeroys of that huge tract do acknowledge him for their soueraigne and supreme gouernour.1620 T. Dekker Dreame sig. B4 About him, round (Like petty Viz-royes), Spirits (me thought) all-Crownde.1524 Chron. Calais (1846) 34 The xxiiij. of February Frauncis the Frenche kynge was taken prisoner..by the vice-roy of Naples. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. x. f. 47v Inacus Iopez Mendocius,..viceroye of Granata. 1598 R. Barckley Disc. Felicitie of Man iii. 242 The part rather of a tyrant, then of a Vice-roy. a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 135 The custome being in Persia, that in the necessary absence of the Prince in State, the Heire apparent was Vice-roy. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 151 A long Gallery, hung round with the Pictures at length of all the Vice-Roys that had been in East India down to the present Vice-Roy. 1737 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 685/2 His Catholick Majesty's..dispatching all the necessary Orders to his Vice-Roys, Governors, and other Officers. 1787 A. Hamilton in Daily Advertiser (N.Y.) 5 Apr. 3/1 The government lately established in Canada—the splendid title of viceroy—seem to look beyond the dreary regions of Canada and Nova Scotia. 1808 Z. M. Pike Acct. Exped. Sources Mississippi iii. App. 4 The whole political government of the vice-roy of Mexico. 1877 W. R. Cooper Short Hist. Egypt. Obelisks (1878) xi. 61 This obelisk..was presented to the late Duke of Northumberland..by the Viceroy of Egypt. 1880 Encycl. Brit. XII. 768/1 The supreme authority over all British India..is vested..in the viceroy or governor-general-in-Council. 2. transferred. One having authority or rank comparable to that of a viceroy. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > governor of province, dependency, or colony > [noun] > viceroy > one having authority like viceroy1524 viceroya1592 a1592 R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. Bv Now maisters of our Academicke state, That rule in Oxford Vizroies in your place. a1601 W. Lambarde Archion (1635) 111 The King..is within his owne kingdome the Viceroy of God. a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1958) IX. 58 God creates man, whom he constitutes His Viceroy in the World. 1644 H. Parker Jus Populi 45 The Judges were Gods Vice-Roys, in regard they did transact affairs by direction from Gods own mouth. 1682 N. Grew Exper. Luctation ii. Introd., in Anat. Plants 238 For what Dominion a Prince hath over the Moral, that a Physician hath, as one of God Almighty's Vice-Roys, over the Corporeal World. 1818 Lady Morgan in Passages from Autobiogr. (1859) 279 When Barras reigned, and the beautiful Madame Tallien reigned viceroy over him. 1827 W. Scott Chron. Canongate iii Christie Steele was my mother's body servant, her very right hand, and..something like a viceroy over her. 3. Entomology. An American species of butterfly, Basilarchia Archippus, distinguished by handsome red and black colouring. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Rhopalocera (butterflies) > [noun] > family Nymphalidae > subfamily Ithomiinae > genus Basilarchia > basilarchia archippus (viceroy) viceroy1881 1881 S. H. Scudder Butterflies vii. 103 The caterpillar of the Viceroy signifies its displeasure at any disturbance by tossing the head upward. Derivatives ˈviceroy v. (with it) to rule as or like a viceroy. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > sole rule > rule as monarch [verb (intransitive)] > as viceroy viceroy1821 1821 Examiner 596/1 They, forsooth, may viceroy it over authority with propriety. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1524 |
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