单词 | capitanate |
释义 | capitanaten. Frequently with capital initial. 1. Chiefly in French or Italian contexts: any of several areas under the jurisdiction of a capitano; spec. (now historical) a former district of southern Italy, roughly corresponding to the province of Foggia in Apulia.The Capitanate was created in Apulia in 1233 by King Frederick II of Sicily and abolished in 1806 during the reign of Joseph Bonaparte. ΚΠ 1607 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Serres in tr. Gen. Inuentorie Hist. France 369 Apulia was subdiuided into three parts: the land of Otrante, Bari, and the Capitanate [Fr. le Capitanat] ioyning to Abruzze. 1693 J. A. Barnard Bohun's Geogr. Dict. (new ed.) 357 It [sc. San Severo] stands in the Capitanate in a Plain. 1738 in tr. J. Hübner Introd. Geogr. sig. O3 Samnites, Inhabitants of the Country now called Capitanate, in the Kingdom of Naples. 1762 tr. J. B. Bossuet Hist. France III. xiv. 16 [The king of Spain] started a difficulty in the division of the territories, pretending, that a district, called a Capitanate [Fr. le Capitanat], was in Apulia, rather than in Abruzzo, as the French pretended. 1897 W. C. Hazlitt Suppl. Coinage European Continent 109 Norden, Hanover, a Capitanate under Ulric Zirkzema, who also exercised similar jurisdiction under the same title at Emden. 1907 V. Milkowicz in H. F. Helmolt World's Hist. V. v. 304 All the parishes composing a ‘capitanate’ chose their common judge. 1924 J. S. C. Bridge Hist. France II. xv. 300 One of his allies, Virginio Orsini, took up a position at San Severo in the Capitanate. 1974 L. F. Edwards Yugoslav Coast vi. 135 The Capitanate of Senj..extended from that coastal city to Bihać in western Bosnia. 2. The office of a capitano. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > [noun] > position of captainshipc1465 captainryc1540 troop1813 capitanate1818 captaincy1818 captainate1906 1818 J. C. Hobhouse tr. Let. in Hist. Illustr. 341 Ye..were..injured first by what was called a Senate, then under the name of a Capitanate [L. capitaneatus]. 2003 C.F. Weber tr. G. Gatari in Medieval Househ. in Christian Europe 73 After this followed my lord Michele da Rabbata, in armour,..and he had a baton in his hand, as a sign for the capitanate of his city. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1607 |
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