| 单词 | lord proprietary |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslord proprietary b. spec. A person (or one of a group) holding granted rights of government over any of various British colonies in North America (see sense B. 3). Also more fully lord proprietary. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > possessor > [noun] > owner > landowner > owner of North American colony proprietary1637 proprietor1637 1637 in Arch. Maryland (1883) I. 23 Insolencies, mutinies and contempts against the Lord Proprietary and the government of this place. 1683 (title) A letter from William Penn, Proprietary and Governour of Pennsylvania in America. 1708 J. Oldmixon Brit. Empire in Amer. I. 168 By Governour living himself among them, they meant Proprietary. 1765 T. Hutchinson Hist. Colony Massachusets-Bay, 1628–91 (ed. 2) 329 To govern under..the lords proprietaries. 1834 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. I. vii. 261 Some other rights were conferred on the proprietary. 1862 S. Lucas Secularia 261 The Crown abdicated its regalities in favour of a Proprietary, yet claimed to bind him by its fiscal regulations. 1904 C. M. Andrews Colonial Self-Government v. 82 The duke of York, as proprietary of the new colony, was intrusted with full and absolute power to govern and administer his province..on condition that all laws be agreeable to those of England. 1994 B. S. Shearer et al. State Names, Seals, Flags & Symbols iii. 49 On the obverse of the Great Seal of Maryland is an equestrian figure of the Lord Proprietary. < as lemmas |
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