captain-lieutenantn.
A military officer who commanded a company or troop, with a captain's rank, and lieutenant's pay. (The rank no longer exists.)
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1643 Cromwell Let. 31 July in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Third Pt. (1721) II. 278 My captain-lieutenant slew him.
1745 Observ. conc. Navy 48 In the Army there are Captain-Lieutenants whose Commissions are superiour to all other Lieutenants and inferiour to Captains.
1771 T. Davies in Philos. Trans. 1770 (Royal Soc.) 60 187 Tho. Davies, Captain Lieutenant of Artillery.
c1880 J. Grant Hist. India I. lvi. 289/2 Captain-Lieutenant Clark..was struck on the breast by a spent ball.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
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a. In the army: The officer next in rank to the captain. †Also in captain-lieutenant (see quot. 1728; cf. lieutenant-captain n. at Compounds 2).
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1578 T. Nicholas tr. F. Lopez de Gómara Pleasant Hist. Conquest W. India 1 Who in his youth applied himselfe to the warres, and was lieutenant to a companie of horsemen.
1642 Althorp MS. in J. N. Simpkinson Washingtons (1860) p. lxxxii To liefetennant Scotts horse of oates j. pecke.
1653 R. Baxter Christian Concord 82 The Lieutenant of the Troop..needs no new Commission.
1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 22 A Lievtenant of a Foot company.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Captain Captain Lieutenant, is he who commands a Troop, or Company, in the Name and Place of some other Person, who has the Commission, with the Title, Honour, and Pay thereof; but is dispens'd withal, on account of his Quality, from performing the Functions of his Post.
1844 Queen's Regulations & Orders Army 3 Second Lieutenants take rank of Cornets and Ensigns.
1876 G. E. Voyle & G. de Saint-Clair-Stevenson Mil. Dict. (ed. 3) (at cited word) In the footguards 24 of the lieutenants have the rank of captain in the army, and are called lieutenants and captains.
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