单词 | deemstership |
释义 | deemstershipn. Now rare. The office or position of a deemster (deemster n. 1). Also: the term of office of a deemster.Recorded earliest in first deemstership. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > judge > [noun] > in Isle of Man > office of deemstership1827 1827 Manx Sun 27 Feb. Mr. Thomas Gawne, the ‘friend of the people’, and the most talented advocate in the island, was removed from the first deemstership through means of one paper. 1828 Manx Sun 9 Sept. A Deemstership, at the time of passing the Augmentation Acts, was worth about £350 per annum. 1894 H. Caine Manxman iii. iii Let the Deemstership go to perdition. 1897 Mona's Herald 27 Oct. 6/5 Many personal incidents worthy of record have occurred during the fifty years of his Deemstership. 1925 Mona's Herald 25 Feb. 4/5 If economies there must be, we would prefer that one of the Deemsterships be abolished rather than see the position in inferior hands. 1961 Isle of Man Daily Times 10 Apr. 3/2 Tributes to his great services to the Island had been received from his Excellency the Lieut.-Governor..as well as from the distinguished legal men who had been Judges of Appeal in the Island during His Honour's Deemstership. 1961–2 Jrnl. Manx Mus. 6 155/2 In 1765 a vacancy was not filled up and the Deemstership was ‘in commission’ until 1773. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1827 |
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