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coˈllectorship
[f. as prec. + -ship.]
1. The office of a collector.
1553Act 7 Edw. VI, c. 4 §2 Their said Office of Collectorship of the said Tenths. 1679Wood Life (1848) 213 This Lent the collectors ceased from entertaining the bachelors..so that now they got by their collectorships, whereas before they spent about 100l. besides their gains. 1701Answ. to Patrick Hurly's Vind. 10 He was recommended to the Collectorship of the County of Clare. 1857Toulm. Smith Parish 180 The Poor Law Board..attempted..to take the collectorship out of the hands of those whom the collection alone concerned. 1873Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. ii. 232 The Collectorship at Whitehaven was..offered to Wordsworth. 1884Manch. Exam. 17 Nov. 5 3 The contest for a rate collectorship at Ashton.
2. In India; = collectorate.
1789Colebrooke in Life (1873) 35 Some of the districts of this collectorship. 1793Sir W. Jones in Asiat. Res. (1799) IV. 9 In one collectorship..there have lately been found..a million and three hundred thousand native inhabitants. 1800Wellington in Owen Disp. 636 In regulating any of the collectorships in Bengal.
3. The practice of a professed collector of curiosities, etc.
1870Athenæum 15 Oct. 498 The growing spirit of collectorship in the United States. 1883Dowden in Academy 24 Nov. 342/1 Contributions of real importance to the study of Goethe have been made by the spirit of collectorship aided by scientific criticism. |