| 单词 | heralds' office |
| 释义 | > as lemmasHeralds' Office f. Heralds' College, or College of Arms: a royal corporation, founded 1483, consisting of the Earl Marshal, kings-of-arms, heralds, and pursuivants, exercising jurisdiction in matters armorial, and now recording proved pedigrees, and granting armorial bearings. Heralds' Office, the office of this corporation. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > heraldry > herald > [noun] > corporation of College of Arms1541 Heralds' College1588 society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > heraldry > herald > [noun] > corporation of > office of Heralds' Office1588 1588 F. Thynne Let. 15 Nov. in Animaduersions (1875) p. xci The whoole colledge of hereaudes. a1655 in Cotgrave Treas. Wit & Lang., Her. 126 He is at the Heralds Office yondir. What, Has he purchas'd Arms then? a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Berks. 107 If it was his assigned, and not hereditary Coat, it will be long enough ere the Heraulds Office grant another. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 11. ⁋4 I shall give you my Genealogy, as a Kinsman of ours has sent it me from the Heralds-Office. 1869 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Gleanings I. 32 A parvenu pays the Heralds' College for a pedigree. < as lemmas |
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