| 释义 |
† oˈfficialship Obs.
[f. official n. + -ship.]
The post of an ecclesiastical official; a body of such officials; = officiality 1.
1461Liber Niger Domus Edw. IV in Househ. Ord. (1790) 27 These lordes rewarde theire..chapeleyns..with officyalshippes, deaneries, prebendes. 1533Cranmer Let. in Misc. Writ. (Parker Soc.) II. 266 Which said Thomas Eton..exercised the room of the officialship in Exeter. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon. I. 345 A Canonry, and an Officialship of the said Church, he kept to his dying day. 1762tr. Busching's Syst. Geog. IV. 331 The officialship has the direction of all persons and things relating to the service of religion. |