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单词 grand pensionary
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Grand Pensionary
b. Usually in form Pensionary. More fully Grand Pensionary, Pensionary of Holland. The first minister and magistrate of the province of Holland in the United Provinces of the Netherlands from 1618 to 1795.The position had existed since 1513 and from the appointment of Johan van Oldenbarneveldt in 1586 to that of Andries de Witt in 1618 carried the official title ‘Advocate’.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > head of government > [noun] > first minister of a ruler or state > prime minister of Holland
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1655 in E. Nicholas Nicholas Papers (1892) II. 232 Shee sent to Mr. Oudart, who wes at the Hage, and commanded him to goe to the Pensionary de Witte and assure him [etc.].
1668 London Gaz. No. 283/3 The Heer de Wit is still to continue Pensionary, and for an acknowledgement of the good services he has done, his Salary is raised to 3000 Guilders per annum.
1714 B. Mandeville Fable Bees i. 210 A Grand Pensionary of Holland.
1757 D. Hume Hist. Great Brit. II. i. 40 They immediately dispatched Paw, pensionary of Holland [1631–6], as their ambassador extraordinary to London.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 337 Grand Pensionary, formerly called the advocate of the republic.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xi. 68 The office of Pensionary, always important, was peculiarly important when the Stadtholder was absent from the Hague.
1874 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. X. xii. 262 The commercial treaty between France and the United States was, about the same time, delivered to the grand pensionary and to the pensionary of Amsterdam.
1961 New Cambr. Mod. Hist. 5 279 John de Witt, who soon became the leader of the republican party (owing to his office of Grand Pensionary to which he was appointed in 1653), [etc.].
1995 J. Israel Dutch Republic xx. 454 The Pensionary's functions were reduced.
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grand pensionary
In late 18th and early 19th cent. British politics, often satirically in grand pensionary or head pensionary with humorous reference to sense 2b.extracted from pensionaryn.1
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