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单词 butlership
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butlershipn.

Brit. /ˈbʌtləʃɪp/, U.S. /ˈbətlərˌʃɪp/
Forms: see butler n. and -ship suffix.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: butler n., -ship suffix.
Etymology: < butler n. + -ship suffix.
1. The office of butler to a monarch, nobleman, etc. Frequently (and in earliest use) in chief butlership. See butler n. 2 and the note at that sense. Now chiefly historical.
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society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > domestic servant > [noun] > butler > office or action of
butlership1462
butleringa1739
buttling1918
1462 in R. R. Sharpe Cal. Let.-bks. London (1912) L. 5 Diverse oþere Citeseyns..owen of right..at þe same day to serve in thoffice of Buttlershipe in helping of the chief buttler of Englond.
1485–6 Act of Resumption in Rolls of Parl.: Henry VII (Electronic ed.) Parl. Nov. 1485 m. 25 Thoffice of chief botyllershipe of Englond.
1586 Act 28 Eliz. in R. Bolton Statutes Ireland (1621) 399 Any Patentee or Patentees of any the office or offices of..Comptrollorship of the said Impost or Subsidie upon wines, or of the Butlership, or price Wines.
1652 A. Ross Hist. World sig. Qqqq3v In the West, Wenceslaus king of Bohemia is confirmed in the Electorate, and chief Imperial Butlership.
1660 F. Philipps Tenenda non Tollenda 129 The said Earls repaired thither..taking also for the Office of Butlership, other seven like Robes, twenty gallons of Wine, [etc.].
1761 Gen. Evening Post 15 Sept. The following Gentlemen, as Masters of the twelve senior Livery Companies of this city..are permitted to serve in the office of Butlership, in aid to the Lord Mayor, as Chief Butler of England.
1829 J. B. Heath Some Acct. Worshipful Company of Grocers 169 The Mayor's claim to the chief butlership.
1866 Spectator 27 Jan. 97/1 James, the eldest, succeeded him in the earldom and in the Butlership of Ireland.
1986 D. Crouch Beaumont Twins v. 139 Anschetil still held his butlership in the early years of Count Waleran.
2016 S. Gunn Henry VII's New Men & Making Tudor Eng. i. 12 His career combined offices on the crown lands..with fiscal posts such as the mastership of the wards..and the chief butlership, held from 1521.
2. The position of, or role occupied by, a butler (butler n. 1a), esp. one in domestic service; the state of being a butler.In early use frequently with reference to Genesis 40:20–21, in which Pharaoh restores the royal cup-bearer to his former position (see quots. 1535, 1630).
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1535 Bible (Coverdale) Gen. xl. C And restored the chefe butlar to his butlarshipe agayne.
1612 Caius Coll. MS in Gentleman's Mag. (1883) Oct. 384 [Plate] spoyled and battered at the going out of Sir Utting out of his buttlership.
1630 F. Bridges Gods Treasurie Displayed xv. 109 As with Pharaohes chiefe butler, and chiefe baker, whose heads were both lifted vp; but the one vnto his butlership, the other vnto the gallowes.
1840 Mrs. Gore in New Monthly Mag. 60 54 The clodpole she has disciplined into butlership.
1890 Standard 5 Sept. 2/1 Having attained the position of first footman..he is afterwards appointed to the height of his ambition—a butlership.
1921 J. Knittel Aaron West xv. 170 Ben Philpot..had had the butlership of Mr. West on his mind all the time.
2013 S. Bernofsky tr. J. Gotthelf Black Spider 20 Where his arms would not reach, he delegated the butlership, solemnly compelling his guests to partake with frequent admonitions: ‘Quaff freely, friends, the wine is there to be drunk!’
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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