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ˈmace-bearer
One who carries a mace; spec. an official whose duty it is to carry a mace, as a symbol of authority, before some high functionary.
1552Huloet, Mace bearer, cliduchus. 1683Addr. fr. Oxford in Lond. Gaz. No. 1863/5 Our respective Mayor, Bayliffs,.. Town-Clerk, Mace bearer or any other Officers. 1687Wood Life 3 Sept., Afterwards the macebearer put the mace into the mayor's hands. 1763H. Walpole Catal. Engravers (1765) 20 John bishop of Lincoln, with purse-bearer, mace-bearer [etc.]. 1823De Quincey Incognito Wks. 1862 X. 2 The chief-burgomaster..turned the mace-bearer out of the room. 18351st Munic. Corp. Comm. Rep. App. iii. 1686 Other officers of the Corporation [of Preston] are, Mace-Bearer, Beadle [etc.]. 1841Elphinstone Hist. Ind. II. 349 A mace-bearer called out to him, with mock solemnity, to receive the salutations of his servants. 1870Bryant Iliad I. vii. 210 The mace-bearer Areithous. |