单词 | dogedom |
释义 | dogedomn. The office or rule of a doge; the dominion of a doge; (also) doges collectively. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > head of government > [noun] > in a republic > in Italian republics > office of dogeship1651 dogate1693 dogedom1698 gonfaloniership1726 priorate1785 priorship1841 dogeate1888 1698 in tr. Tacitus Ann. & Hist. I. ii. 281 (note) The Doges order their Interment in those Places, where their Ancestors rest; and afterwards their Children cause Mausolaeums..to be erected..to perpetuate the Memory of their Dogedom. 1857 A. Amos Eng. Constit. in Reign King Charles II 25 If Proclamations of this nature were not permitted, it would be a degradation of the Crown to a Dogedom of Venice. 1893 M. Symonds Doge's Farm 225 My friends and all the potentates of the dogedom shook their heads. 1931 A. Bryant King Charles II ii. xiii. 335 A far more ambitious plan..for seizing Whitehall..and establishing either a dogedom under the weak Monmouth or an aristocratic republic. 2001 G. McCaughrean Stop the Train (2002) vi. 65 ‘In Venice and Florence and suchlike Italian places, they have doges not mayors.’.. ‘Yes! We could have the only Dogedom in America! I'll vote for that!’ This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1698 |
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