单词 | generalate |
释义 | generalaten. 1. a. The office, rank, or position of general, esp. of a religious body or organization. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer by rank > [noun] > general > position of generalship1575 generalate1613 generaltya1645 generality1686 generalcy1840 society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > bishop > bishop's officials > [noun] > vicar general > office of vicar general arch-flamena1530 vicar-generalshipa1578 generalate1729 1613 R. Dallington Aphorismes Ciuill & Militarie iv. xlii. 281 The State of Florence had much discontented Paul Vitelli, by fauouring Count Rinuccio in his concurrence with him for the Generalate. 1656 B. Harris tr. J. N. de Parival Hist. Iron Age i. iv. xviii. 129 (heading) Tilly takes the Generalate, against his will. 1729 A. Gordon Lives Pope Alexander VI. & Cæsar Borgia ii. 216 Then he blest the Staff and Ensigns of the Generalate of the Church. 1858 F. Faber tr. D. Bartoli & J. P. Maffei Life Xavier 410 With the intention..of resigning the generalate into his hands. 1893 Eng. Hist. Rev. 8 508 The designs formed by Wallenstein at the time of his second assumption of the generalate. 1962 T. S. J. Hughes in F. Sweeney Vatican Impressions ii. 43 The generalate of Religious Orders was quite a favorite object of ambition with the noble cousins. 2001 I. Delio Simply Bonaventure 33 The election of John of Parma to the generalate was a sign of hope for the zealots who believed that John could help them realize their ideals. b. The term of office of a general; the period of time served by an individual in this office. ΚΠ 1645 R. Baillie Let. 25 Apr. (1841) II. 260 The House of Lords have passed the ordinance for Sir Thomas Fairfax's generallat. 1853 Metropolitan Aug. 327 In spite of the storms which it has had to go through, the Society has never ceased to grow and extend itself during the generalate of Father Roothaan. 1875 C. W. Heckethorn Secret Soc. 133 Under the generalate of Valdés, the eighth Inquisitor-General, an old lady, Marie de Bourgogne..was denounced. 1902 Eng. Hist. Rev. 17 658 I will merely give one illustration..which was undoubtedly written during the generalate of Crescentius. 1996 T. M. McCoog Soc. Jesus in Irel., Scotl., & Eng., 1541–1588 278 The absence of a thorough study of the generalate of Claudio Acquaviva makes an evaluation of his role in the development of the Society's Institute difficult. 2. A district or a division of an organization which is supervised by a general. Cf. generalship n. 4. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > territory under a governor or official > [noun] > under a general generalship1762 generalate1852 1852 R. S. Fisher Bk. of World II. 289 The government is divided into four generalates. 1883 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 295/1 By the close of the 17th century there were three frontier ‘generalates’—Carlstadt, Warasdin, and Petrinia. 1982 Dict. Canad. Biogr. XI. 241/1 On 6 June 1881 the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary was established in America by papal decree as a generalate in its own right. 1997 Past & Present 154 166 The Generalate continued to hold authority in matters of strategy and policy, but the Provincialate had a great deal of decision-making delegated to it. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1613 |
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