| 单词 | lord proprietor | 
| 释义 | > as lemmaslord proprietor  2.  spec. In pre-Independence North America and other British colonies: a person holding granted rights of government. Cf. proprietary n. 2b. Also more fully  lord proprietor. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > possessor > 			[noun]		 > owner > landowner > owner of North American colony proprietary1637 proprietor1637 1637    in  Arch. Maryland 		(1887)	 IV. 4  				To answere the severall crimes of sedition, pyracie and murther w[hi]ch shalbe on the Lord Proprietors behalfe. 1680    J. Brown Remonstrance Grievances & Oppressions 2  				Iames late Earl of Carlisle, by colour of a pretended Grant, as Lord Proprietor of the Caribee Islands..enters the said Island by force of Arms. 1688    in  Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania 		(1852)	 I. 230  				The Chieff Proprietor and Govr acquainted them that he had little more to say. 1722    D. Defoe Moll Flanders 410  				We purchased of the Proprietors of the Colony, as much Land for 35 Pound..as would make a sufficient Plantation. 1751    Memorial St Lucia in  Memorials Courts of Brit. & France 		(1756)	 57  				The ancient Proprietor Lord Carlisle, having surrendered his Patent, one Moiety of the Revenue of the Carribbee Islands was granted to Lord Willoughby. 1785    T. Jefferson Notes Virginia xxiii. 358  				Surrender from the proprietors of E. and W. N. Jersey of their pretended right of government to her majesty Q. Anne. 1851    W. H. Dixon W. Penn xi. 368  				The future lord proprietor of Pennsylvania. 1882    Cent. Mag. Apr. 943/1  				The Carolina proprietors wanted the colonists to chase away the pirates who flocked into Charleston to buy sea-stores. 1960    J. Barth Sot-weed Factor  ii. xxx. 448  				Shall the Lord Proprietor learn that such crimes go unredressed in the inns of his province? 2004    G. C. Rhea Carrying Flag 26  				Two rivers, later named the Ashley and the Cooper after Lord Ashley Cooper, a lord proprietor of the new colony. < as lemmas  | 
	
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