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consulship|ˈkɒnsəlʃɪp|
[f. consul + -ship.]
The office of consul, the term of this office: a. of a Roman consul.
1541Paynel Catiline xii. 17 This rumour..dydde greatly hyndre Catiline in requeste of the Consulshyppe. 1581Savile Tacitus' Agricola (1622) 188 And after his Consulship [he] solemnized the marriage. 1607Shakes. Cor. ii. ii. 2 How many stand for Consulships? a1794Gibbon Autobiog. (1799) 69 The vanity of Tully was doubly interested in the Greek memoirs of his own consulship. 1869Seeley Lect. & Ess. i. 5.
fig.1656Cowley Misc. xi. To Bp. Lincoln 24 The Consulship of Wit and Eloquence.
b. of a modern commercial consul.
1615G. Sandys Trav. 85 The English Consulship of Chios is in his disposing. 1686Lond. Gaz. No. 2135/8 His Majesty..has been Graciously pleased to bestow upon him the Consulship of Rotterdam. 1883Century Mag. XXVI. 275/2, I shall..strike for..some small consulship perhaps.
fig.1668E. Kemp Reasons for Use Ch. Prayers in Publick 7 She cannot trust to the skill and arts of any private Priest to transact by way of agency or consulship for her.
†c. of a consul of Venice. Obs.
1677Govt. Venice 103 These two Consulships are..conferred upon two of the most indigent of the Nobility, because they are Places of great Profit, and little Expence. |