单词 | logothete |
释义 | logotheten. Historical. The designation of various functionaries under the Byzantine emperors; applied esp. (also in the Norman kingdom of Sicily) to a high official corresponding to the ‘chancellor’ of Western kingdoms. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > holder of office > high officials of state > [noun] > high official of Byzantine Empire or Sicily logothete1781 c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 164/35 Logotheta, gemotman.] 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1869) III. liii. 286 Which the great logothete or chancellor of the empire was directed to prepare. 1862 T. L. Kington Frederick II II. xviii. 446 Logothete of Sicily, and Protonotary. 1864 C. Kingsley Roman & Teuton viii. 217 A man..who can talk Latin, and perhaps Greek, as well as one of those accursed man-eating Grendels, a Roman lawyer, or a logothete from Ravenna. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1781 |
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