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signory|ˈsiːnjərɪ|
Forms: α. 5 Sc. sigeniery (!), 6 sygneoury, 6–7 signiorie, 6–9 signory. β. 5 Sc. signery, 6–7 sygnory (6 syng-), signorie (6 sygn-), 5– signory.
[Originally a. OF. signerie, signorie, etc., varr. of seignorie (see seigniory), subsequently influenced by It. signoria (see signoria).]
1. Lordship, domination, rule.
αc1375Sc. Leg. Saints xxxvii. (Vincent) 106 Othir til our goddis sacrify & haf riches & sigeniery [sic]. 1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xi. (Percy Soc.) 44 Makyng them lese theyr worthy sygneoury. 1594Kyd Cornelia iii. iii. 107 Th' inextinguible thyrst of signiorie. 1604T. Wright Passions v. §2. 216 His Lord and Maister will give him signiorie and authority over all he possesseth. 1632W. Lithgow Trav. ii. 64 The Signiory thereof belongeth to Venice. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. 146 This our recognition of a signiory paramount. 1818Hallam Mid. Ages (1872) I. 423 The same sanction was given to those temporary delegations of the signiory to a prince. a1850Rossetti Dante & Circle i. (1874) 232 My heart, my mind, and all my life, Are given in bondage to her signiory.
βc1375Sc. Leg. Saints xxviii. (Margaret) 330 And sa thru his ded mychtely of deid [he] oure-come þe signery. c1440Generydes 6980 He was a man of grete renown, Sowdon of perce with all his signory. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. xxvii. 41 The ysle of Creth, the which was vnder their sygnorie. 1533Bellenden Livy iii. xvii. (S.T.S.) II. 17 Quhat signorie, quhat wikkit empire is this..þat ȝe pretend? 1600Holland Livy xxvi. i. 582 To..returne unto their old alleagence and obedience to their wonted signorie of Rome. a1660Contemp. Hist. Irel. (Ir. Archæol. Soc.) II. 166 His..designe is noe other thinge then the temporall signorie of this distracted kingdome. 1875Maine Hist. Inst. v. 123 Eldest son after eldest son succeeded to the signory.
b. Authority or supremacy expressed in looks or bearing. rare.
1598Yong Diana 243 They sawe two louely Shepherdesses (though by their coye lookes shewing a kinde of signorie and statelinesse aboue any other). 1856Mrs. Browning Aur. Leigh iv. 300 Among the gallery portraits of our Leighs, We shall not find a sweeter signory Than this pure forehead's.
2. A lordship, domain, territory.
α1555Eden Decades (Arb.) 211 The kyngedomes and signiories whiche confine with the sayde sea. 1605Verstegan Dec. Intell. vi. (1628) 181 Their proper Signiories, Lordships or places which they possessed. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 51 This region of Malabar..is divided into several Petit Signiories. 1796H. Hunter tr. St.-Pierre's Stud. Nat. (1799) III. 673 They were empowered to receive gifts and bequests of money, houses, lands, signiories, nay even of slaves.
transf.1607J. Davies (Heref.) Summa Totalis Wks. (Grosart) I. 11/1 These thrust out Reason of her Signiorie (The Braines) where erst she sate in Siluer Throne.
βa1533Ld. Berners Huon cxiv. 404 To conquere agayne your herytage, londys, and sygnoryes. 1598Stow Surv. i. (1603) 3 The state, comunalty or Signory of the Trinobantes. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage v. viii. 412 To divide the soile into many Signories and Kingdomes. 1670Milton Hist. Eng. i. Wks. 1851 III. 15 His Sons..won them Lands and Signories in Germany. 1753Richardson Grandison (1781) V. xxix. 202, I shall take a view of the works projecting by the Duke of Modena, in order to render his little Signory considerable.
†3. = signorship. Obs. rare—1.
1594Carew Huarte's Exam. Wits 225 Signore, your signory shall vnderstand, that souldiers who haue enioyed the libertie of Italy, cannot content themselues to make abode in Spain.
4. A governing body, esp. that of Venice or other mediæval Italian republic. Cf. signoria.
1604T. Wright Passions v. 159 The Arcadian signorie consider..the inhabitants..barbarous, sauage, and wild. 1612W. Shute tr. Fougasses's Venice II. 481 A goodly Church..whither the Signory and Clergy doe yeerely goe in procession. 1652M. Needham tr. Selden's Mare Cl. 99 The Venetians and their Signiory for very many ages have been and are in possession of the aforesaid Gulf. 1756Nugent Gr. Tour, Italy III. 138 The legislative authority is lodged in the great senate, consisting of the signory, and 400 noble⁓men. The signory consists of the Doge and twelve other members. 1820Byron Mar. Fal. i. i. 3 But still the Signory is deep in council. 1837Hallam Hist. Lit. i. iii. §59 The Palazzo Vecchio, in which the signiory of Florence held their councils. 1873Dixon Two Queens IV. xx. viii. 108, ‘I hear on good authority,’ said Fisher to the Signory, ‘that Cardinal Wolsey is not now in favour of a divorce’. |