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broad seal, n.
The Great Seal of England. Also transf.
1536Wriothesley Chron. (1875) I. 51 Letter patent under the Kinges brode seale. 1576Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) 227 Advaunced to the keeping, first of the privie, and then of the broad seale. 1641Symonds Serm. bef. Ho. Comm. D b, As if they had had the broad seale of heaven for them. 1679Trial Langhorn 27 Two Pardons under the Broad Seal. 1762–71H. Walpole Vertue's Anec. Paint. (1786) III. 172 Being allowed 200l. for each broad seal. |