单词 | knight marshal |
释义 | > as lemmasknight marshal knight marshal n. †(a) a military officer, acting as a quartermaster; often used to render classical Latin tribunus militum (obsolete); (b) an officer in the royal household, with judicial functions (now historical); cf. marshalsea n. 3; also figurative.The office was abolished in 1846. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > holder of office > official of royal or great household > [noun] > marshal of King's house marshal of the King's (also Queen's) house (also household)1433 marshalc1478 knight marshal1556 marshal1617 society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer according to function > [noun] > military tribune knight marshal1556 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Acts xxiii. 9–10 The marciall [L. tribunus] fearyng lest that Paul [etc.].] 1556 in J. G. Nichols Chron. Grey Friars (1852) 65 Edmund Boner beynge prisoner in the Marchelse..the knyght marchalle takynge away hys bedde..because he wolde not geve the knyght marchall x li. a1591 H. Smith Serm. (1594) 518 That God would make him [sc. Satan] Knight Marshall ouer the world, to slay and kill as many as he hated. 1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. F2 The Knight Marshals men, that nayle vp Mandates at the Court gate. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 116 Being a colonell and knight marshal of the campe [L. tribunus militum ab exercitu]. 1617 J. Minsheu Ἡγεμὼν είς τὰς γλῶσσας: Ductor in Linguas at Knight Knight Martiall..Tribunus militum, mariscallus. 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. i. at Tribune The other was called Tribune of the Souldiers, who had charge to see them well armed and ordered, being as the Knight Marshall is with vs. 1641 P. Heylyn Ἡρωολογια Anglorvm 305 Antiently they that had this office were only Marshals of the Kings house, according as the same is now discharged to the Knights Marshall. 1697 London Gaz. No. 3341/2 The Messengers of the Chamber and Knight-Mareschalls Men attending the Proceeding in their proper Stations. 1702 London Gaz. No. 3807/1 First a Troop of Horse-Granadiers, Knight Marshal's Men, Kettle-Drum. 1713 London Gaz. No. 5135/3 His Excellency was receiv'd at the Palace Gate by Sir Phillip Meadows, Knight-Marshal. 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. 76 King Charles I in the sixth year of his reign by his letters patent erected a new court of record..to be held before the steward of the household and knight marshal, and the steward of the court. 1991 C. Lycett Green Perfect Eng. Country House (BNC) Sir William Pickering was Knight Marshal to Henry VIII. < as lemmas |
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