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generalship|ˈdʒɛnərəlʃɪp|
[f. general n. + -ship.]
1.
†a. The functions of a general (obs.).
b. The discharge of those functions; conduct in command.
1591Garrard Art Warre 225 May be able worthily to performe his Lieutenant and Generalship. 1730Bolingbroke Lett. on Hist. ii. (1752) I. 24 Cicero..laughs, indeed in one of his letters to Atticus, at his generalship. 1840Thirlwall Greece VII. 167 Leosthenes was provoked to ask, what benefit Athens had reaped from Phocion's generalship. 1884H. Spencer Man v. State 109 The civil head, ceasing to be the military head, does his generalship by deputy.
2. The office or dignity of general.
1623Bingham Xenophon 105 These thoughts lifted him [Xenophon] vp to desire the Generall-ship. 1690Lond. Gaz. No. 2540/1 Don Marco Ottoboni is gone to Civita Vecchia, to take possession of the Generalship of the Gallies. 1707Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) VI. 206 The prince of Nassau Frizeland has been admitted to the generalship of the Dutch infantry. 1855Milman Lat. Chr. ix. vii. (1864) V. 370 A new power..had wrested the generalship and the direction of a Crusade from the hands of the most mighty prelate. 1870Pall Mall G. 18 Aug. 4 He joined Garibaldi..and was promoted to a generalship.
†b. The tenure of the office of general. Obs.
1610Healey St. Aug. Citie of God 37 Regulus..in his generalship returned with divers noble victories unto the Romanes. a1674Clarendon Hist. Reb. ix. §126 Those fifteen hundred horse which march'd northward{ddd}within very few days were brought to nothing; and the generalship of the Lord Digby to an end. 1677Cary Chronol. ii. i. i. xi. 123 Unto which 207 there being added 21 for the time of Cyrus his Generalship.
3. The distinctive qualities of a general; skill in the command and management of an army; strategy.
1770Langhorne Plutarch (1879) I. 209/1 Hannibal gave great proofs of generalship. 1800Weems Washington vi. (1877) 39 This was a bold stroke of generalship. 1839James Louis XIV, II. 412 Turenne was too well aware of the generalship of Condé to attempt to attack him in his retreat. 1867Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) I. v. 324 The plan which he formed seems to vouch for his generalship. 1871Daily News 25 Sept., Of all our weak points, generalship is the weakest.
b. transf. Skilful management.
a1768Sterne Pol. Romance Wks. 1779 VI. 213 An artful stroke of generalship in Trim to raise a dust. 1812Examiner 5 Oct. 637/1 He thanked them for this mode of undermining him, for it only shewed their own want of generalship. 1849Thackeray Pendennis lvii, The..actress..but for the Major's generalship, might now have been your daughter-in-law, ma'am. 1887Times (weekly ed.) 18 Nov. 9/2, I have infinite confidence in your generalship.
4. = generalate 2.
1762tr. Busching's Syst. Geogr. V. 180 The abbey of Denkendorf, which gives its name to the generalship [orig. das Generalat]. |