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vice-king
[vice-.]
One who rules as the representative of a king; a viceroy. Also attrib.
1579in Hakluyt Voy. (1600) III. 739 In coasting along the Island of Mutyr, belonging to the King of Ternate, his Deputie or Vice-king..came with his Canoa to vs. 1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. ii. 132 Vnder his protection we went vp and downe the Citie, as if we had beene so many Vice Kings of the Country. 1659Baxter Key Cath. xlii. 300 A Deputy, or Vice-King in Ireland. 1681― Acc. Sherlocke vi. 210 There is no need of a Vice King to make this a Kingdom. 1681–6J. Scott Chr. Life (1747) III. 562 So that now he is subject to the Father in the Capacity of a Vice-King to a supreme Sovereign. 1800Hist. Ind. in Asiat. Ann. Reg. 24/2 He appointed Don Francis D'Almeyda, Governor⁓general, with the pompous title of Vice King of the Indies. 1848Lytton Harold iii. iii. 99 Farther still down the hall are the great civil lords and vice-king vassals of the ‘Lord Paramount’. 1876Tennyson Harold ii. ii, Thou shalt be verily king—all but the name—For I shall most sojourn in Normandy; And thou be my vice-king in England. |