mayorn.

Brit.

/mɛː/, U.S.

/ˈmeɪ(ə)r/

Forms: Middle English maiere, Middle English maieur, Middle English mar, Middle English marye (probably transmission error), Middle English mayere, Middle English meer, Middle English mehir, Middle English meir, Middle English meire, Middle English mer, Middle English mere, Middle English meyhir, Middle English meyr, Middle English–1500s maier, Middle English–1500s mayer, Middle English–1500s mayr, Middle English–1500s meyer, Middle English–1500s meyre, Middle English–1600s maiour, Middle English–1600s mair, Middle English–1600s maire, Middle English–1600s mare, Middle English–1600s mayre, 1500s–1600s maior, 1500s–1700s (1800s– historical) major, 1500s– mayor, 1600s mawer, 1700s majer; Scottish pre-1700 maeir, pre-1700 maior, pre-1700 major, pre-1700 mar, pre-1700 mare, pre-1700 mayr, pre-1700 mayre, pre-1700 mer, pre-1700 1700s– mair, pre-1700 1800s maire.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French mair, maire.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman mair, maire, meir, meire, mer, mare and Old French, Middle French, French maire (c1170 ‘chief magistrate of a community’; in Old French also maior , maor , maieur ; 1789 in sense ‘elected chief municipal officer’) < post-classical Latin maior mayor (from 12th cent. in British and continental sources), village bailiff (late 10th cent.), feudal officer (early 6th cent.), person in authority (4th cent.), use as noun of classical Latin maior greater (see major adj.). With mair of fee n. at sense 1b compare post-classical Latin marifeodus (1488 in a Scottish source).Disyllabic forms, e.g. maieur (10th cent.) existed in Old French. A disyllabic pronunciation existed in Middle English, where it was a variant of a more common monosyllabic one. This pronunciation was represented in Middle English by forms such as maieur ; the early modern forms maior , maiour (after the spelling of the Latin word) may represent either a disyllabic or a monosyllabic pronunciation. (The form mayor originates in the early modern English orthographic standardization of y for i between vowels: compare prayer .) The disyllabic pronunciation survived in Britain at least into the 17th cent. (compare the pentameter ‘He sent command to the Lord Mayor straight’ in Henry VIII ii. i. 151), and perhaps into the 18th (the word is printed as May'r in the verse of Pope and Swift, implying that readers might regard it as ordinarily disyllabic). N.E.D. (1906) gives (mēⁱˌəɹ), (presumably for the disyllabic /ˈmeɪə(r)/, although the expected stress mark is absent from the first syllable), as one possible pronunciation, but other sources of similar date show that this was by then highly conservative in British usage. In North America, however, disyllabic pronunciations appear to have remained current in all periods. Old High German meior , meiur (Middle High German meier , meiger , German Meier ), Middle Dutch meier (Dutch meier ), in senses overseer, bailiff, steward, are from the post-classical Latin noun. Scottish Gaelic maor bailiff, steward (compare mormaer n.) is probably < the English word (see sense 1). Attested earlier as a surname: compare Geoffrey le Mair of Hereford (1242), although it is unclear whether this is to be interpreted as reflecting the Middle English or the Anglo-Norman word.

1. Scottish. Usually in form mair.

a. Any of various officers with delegated jurisdiction or executive functions under the monarch or under some judicial authority. Now historical.

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c1260 in O. T. Bruce Liber Cartarum Prioratus St. Andree (1841) 383 Roberto le mare.

1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) iv. l. 359 The mar kepyt the port of that willage; Wallace knew weill.

1522–3 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1903) V. 209 Deliverit to the lord Zesteris heid mare our soverane lordis lettrez.

a1530 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Royal) vii. 124 Thare eldast barnys and thare ayris Off erlys, baronys and off marys For ostage gret he tuk.

1544 in E. D. Dunbar Moray Documents (1895) 67 Principal Mair off the lands after specefied, viz. the Thayndaine [etc.].

1609 J. Skene tr. Statute Alexander II in Regiam Majestatem f. 17^v He [sc. the Earle of Fife] may not enter as Earle; bot as Mair to the king of the Earledom of Fife.

1703 in Fountainhall's Decisions (1761) II. 196 The malversations of their mairs or messengers.

1845 J. Train Hist. & Statist. Acct. Isle of Man II. xix. 212 There were formerly officers, called mairs, with similar powers, appointed by the sheriff.

1930 I. F. Grant Social & Econ. Devel. Scotl. 44 The word mair..was still used for an official on Hebridean estates in the middle of the nineteenth century.

b. mair of fee n. such an officer holding his office as a heritable possession. Now historical.

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1429 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1814) II. 17/2 A mayr of fee quheþer he be mayr of þe hail schirefdome or of part sal haf powere [etc.].

c1626 H. Bisset Rolment Courtis (1920) I. 140 All mairis and officeris, alsweill of fie as in that pairt, quha executis the King his majesties letteres..suld have ane signet.

1872 C. Innes Lect. Sc. Legal Antiq. ii. 78 We had numerous mairdoms or subdivisions of sheriffdoms, and several mairs of fee, that is, hereditary mairs.

a. The head or chief officer of the municipal government of a city, borough, etc., now usually elected by local councillors or citizens (but appointed by central government up to the middle of the 19th cent. in most European countries), and serving as chairman of the council, chief executive officer, and now frequently also as an agent of central government charged with certain public responsibilities.In Scotland the term has been superseded by provost. In many U.S. cities, which were never controlled by central government, a system of municipal management now exists in which a city manager hired by the council holds most executive powers, the mayor only presiding over the council.Queenborough mayor: see Queenborough mayor n. Mayor of the Staple: see staple n.² 1a. See also Lord Mayor n.

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society > authority > office > holder of office > magistrate > municipal magistrate > [noun] > chief magistrate or mayor

borough-reevec1000

portreeveOE

sovereigna1325

mayorc1325

Lord Mayor1414

wick-master1587

c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 11226 Þe mer [of Oxford] was viniter.

1387–8 Petition London Mercers in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 34 When free men of the Citee [sc. London] come to chese her Mair.

?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) i. 7917 Þei ȝede to þe Maire [a1450 Lamb. Meyre] of Kaermardyn.

1415 Proclam. in York Plays Introd. p. xxxiv Ye Mair and ye shirefs of yis Citee.

c1450 (?c1300) Lay Folks Mass Bk. (York Min.) 69 We sall pray especially for þe meer.

a1475 J. Russell Bk. Nurture (Harl. 4011) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 192 Þe meyre of london, notable of dignyte, and of queneborow þe meire, no þynge like in degre.

1555 in W. Page Inventories Church Goods York, Durham & Northumberland (1897) 157 One of the attorneys within the mayeres courte.

1599 Master Broughtons Lett. Answered ii. 9 As the runnaway apprentice thought, the bels recalling him, told him he should be Maior of London.

c1600 Wriothesley's Chron. Eng. (1875) I. 31 Sir John Allen, maiour, being also one of the Kinge's Counsell.

c1613 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 87 To the behaufe of the mawer of the Cyte of Yorke & his bredren.

1681 H. Prideaux Lett. (1875) 107 The mayor haveing unreasonably taken many licences for ale houses without a legal cause, the excisemen came and complained to the Vice-Chancellor of it.

1710 Ld. Godolphin Let. 16 Mar. in H. L. Snyder Marlborough–Godolphin Corr. (1975) III. 1436 My Lord Sunderland had a letter from the town majer of Calais.

1765 T. Hutchinson Hist. Colony Massachusets-Bay, 1628–91 (ed. 2) 176 A corporation, consisting of a mayor, eight aldermen and a recorder.

1792 N.-Y. Directory 143 Varick, Richard, mayor of the city, 11, Queen-street.

1805 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. V. 60 The Mayor of the said city shall have full power..to receive and record all and every such fine and fines.

1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 6 Nov. 10 Arab adjoints are to be associated with European mayors in towns and villages.

1907 Nation (N.Y.) 12 Sept. 222/2 The office of mayor has been the tomb of many political ambitions.

1963 E. L. Peters in J. Pitt-Rivers Mediterranean Countrymen 169 They captured whatever administrative posts have been available in the village—mayor, mukhtar, municipal clerk.

1997 Daily Tel. 15 May 9/3 The paving Bill would also allow for a directly-elected mayor for London.

†b. In Ireland: (probably) any of a group of senior members (perhaps chief or capital burgesses) of a municipal body, one of which is also the mayor (sense 2a). Obsolete. rare.

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1557 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 416 That ther be no more but twellve Mayors and the Mayor for the tyme beinge.

c. In any of various mock titles. Now U.S.: a person regarded as eminent or worthy of respect in a particular area.The earliest quots. allude to a ‘mayor’ who was formerly elected periodically by an association of the villagers of Garratt, near Wandsworth (now part of London).

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1764 S. Foote (title) The Mayor of Garratt.

1807 W. H. Ireland Stultifera Navis xxvii. 112 When halt and blind shall the fandango dance, And Garrat's mayor usurp the throne of France.

1888 Dict. National Biogr. at Dunstan, Jeffrey On the death of ‘Sir’ John Harper in 1785, ‘Sir’ Jeffrey was elected mayor of Garrett... He was successful at three successive elections, but in 1796 was ousted from his office by ‘Sir’ Harry Dimsdale.

1902 Westm. Gaz. 22 May 2/3 A boatman on the Bolton and Bury Canal has been selected as ‘Lord Mayor of the village of Ringley’.

1902 Westm. Gaz. 22 May 2/3 In some parts the burlesque civic official was designated ‘Mayor of the Pig Market’.

1982 R. Shilts (title) The Mayor of Castro Street.

2000 GQ Nov. 370 Bob Pierson, the ‘mayor’ of Southern Cross, is a very different presence.

†3. gen. Any person holding high judicial office. Obsolete.

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society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > [noun] > one holding high judicial office

mayorc1390

c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. viii. 171 Ȝe meires and ȝe maister iuges.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 7036 Þair leder and þair maister mair [a1400 Gött. mare].

c1450 J. Capgrave Life St. Katherine (Arun. 396) (1893) v. 1241 There was a man in Alisaundre..Meyer and leedere of alle the puple there.

4. Mayor of the Palace n. (Major of the Palace) [after post-classical Latin major palatii (12th cent.) and, in later use, Middle French, French maire du palais (1573); compare post-classical Latin majores palatii palace dignitaries (early 6th cent.), and major-domo n.] a nominal subordinate wielding the power of his titular superior. Now historical.Originating in the Frankish kingdoms under the later Merovingian kings; hence also Mayor of Austrasia, Mayor of Neustria.

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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > head of government > [noun] > first minister of a ruler or state > prime minister of Frankish kingdom

Mayor of the Palace?1530

?1530 J. Rastell Pastyme of People sig. Di^v Cloyter son of clouis..ordeynyd mayrs of the palys.

1679 E. Everard Disc. Protestant Princes 28 The Election of a Palatine or Major of the Palace, who was the Consul and Head of the People.

1770 T. Percy tr. P. H. Mallet Northern Antiq. I. viii. 161 The nations of German extraction..had either Mayors of the Palace, or Grand Marshals, or Constables.

1818 H. Hallam View Europe Middle Ages I. i. 5 Ebroin and Grimoald, mayors of Neustria and Austrasia.

1838 Times 5 July 4/3 We must therefore presume that some..Major of the Palace may have been the censurable party.

1841 T. B. Macaulay Ess., W. Hastings (1887) 653 His Peshwa, or mayor of the palace, a great hereditary magistrate.

1879 Encycl. Brit. IX. 530/2 We reach the days of the ‘do-naught’ princes, the roi fainéants, and of the struggle between the mayors of Austrasia and Neustria.

1939 T. S. Eliot Idea Christian Society (1940) i. 12 It [sc. democracy] has arrived perhaps at the position of a Merovingian Emperor, and wherever it is invoked, one begins to look for the Major of the Palace.

1976 Speculum 51 405 At first it seemed that an hereditary family of dukes, the Pepinides, would not only succeed in monopolizing the office of Mayor of the Palace, but even in having one of their number succeed to the Austrasian throne.

Compounds

C1.

a. General attributive.

mayor-choosing n.

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1823 T. Bond Topogr. & Hist. Sketches E. & W. Looe 277 Mayor-choosing Days. The following Table..shews the Days of the Mayor-choosing at East Looe.

1951 West Briton 28 May (Evening ed.) 4 (caption) The Mayor-choosing ceremony, on Monday.

† mayor-corn n. Scottish Obsolete an ancient tax of corn given to the mair (see sense 1a).

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1606 in E. D. Dunbar Moray Documents (1895) 68 The haill Mair cornes, reik hens, and uther casualities and feis quatsumevir of the tounis and lands of Tarress [etc.].

mayor-making n. a ceremony at which a mayor is installed.

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1938 New Statesman 19 Feb. 277/2 No public statement..was made until..November 9th, when it was overshadowed by the mayor-making ceremony.

1991 Parl. Affairs 44 545 My small town provided shared rituals—mayor-making, Remembrance day, Charter day—which were colourful, dignified and unifying.

† mayor-town n. Obsolete (a) a town ruled by a mayor; (b) Scottish a farm or piece of land held by a mair (see sense 1a) by right of his office.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town > [noun] > borough

burrows-townc1175

mayor-town1375

boroughc1380

borough-town1382

burghc1425

corporate town1478

royal burgh1591

county borough1708

municipality1790

Royal Borough1805

county1888

1375 in J. M. Thomson Registrum Magni Sigilli Scotorum (1912) I. 224 Nos dedisse..Willelmo Herowart, officium mari nostri orientalis quarterii de Fyff, una cum terra vocata le Maretona eidem officio annexa.

1520 in W. C. Dickinson Sheriff Court Bk. Fife (1928) 182 Johnne Ramkelour tennent of the mairetoune.

1582 R. Madox Diary 21 Apr. in E. S. Donno Elizabethan in 1582 (1976) 116 Wynchester..is waled squar and a mayr town.

1623 J. Taylor New Discouery by Sea A 4 Then downe to Erith, 'gainst the tyde we went, Next London, greatest Mayor [1630 Maior] towne in Kent.

c1710 C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 4 Y^e Assizes is allwayes kept at Salsebury and is a Major town though Wilton about 2 mile off is y^e County town.

1751 S. Whatley England's Gazetteer at Sittingborn In the R. of Eliz. this was made a mayor-T.

1798 W. Robertson Index Rec. Charters Scotl. 120 Carta to William Herowart, of the office of Mairship of the east quarter of Fife, with the land called the Mairtoun, whilk William Mair resigned.

C2. Compounds with mayor's.

mayor's banquet n. a banquet presided over by a mayor.

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1872 Appletons' Jrnl. 2 Nov. 484/1 For some centuries it was the custom for the king to come to the mayor's banquet.

1997 C. Shields Larry's Party (1998) i. 12 He delivered the flowers after the mayor's banquet.

mayor's court n. a court of law under the jurisdiction of a mayor; the room or building in which such a court is held.

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1647 City-law Guild-Hall London 1 The Mayors Court is held by custom of the City before the Mayor and Aldermen that are for the time, in the Chamber of the Guild-Hall, or in the hustings, from day to day in their will.

1682 London Gaz. No. 1738/4 [He] appointed the Common-Serjeant, the Town-Clerk, the two Secondaries, and the four Attorneys of the Mayors Court,..to take the Poll.

a1777 S. Foote Nabob (1778) iii. 69 Our practice is different in the Mayor's Court at Calcutta.

1833 E. T. Coke Subaltern's Furlough iv Of the public buildings, the City Hall, containing the supreme court, mayor's court, and various public offices,..is the most remarkable.

1991 Past & Present Aug. 53 In the summer of 1652 the presentment jury of the mayor's court found thirty-five morals offences.

† mayor's feast n. Obsolete = mayor's banquet n.

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the world > food and drink > food > meal > feast > [noun] > feasts for other occasions

plough feast1355

king ale1472

natal1484

primifeste1551

mayor's feast1578

sheep-shearing feast1586

sheep-shearing1611

christening1617

bean-feast1805

updrinking1819

Thanksgiving dinner1830

bump supper1845

potlatch1858

stag1904

rehearsal dinner1906

1578 G. Whetstone Promos & Cassandra II. i. vi. sig. Hi (stage direct.) Phallax, Two men, apparrelled, lyke greene men at the Mayors feast, with clubbes of fyre worke.

1701 F. Evans Diary (1903) 54 My Ld. went to the Mayor's feast to Worcester.

c1841 J. T. Haines Richard Plantagenet i. i. 12 Wait till the mayor's feast is ended.

† mayorsfeud n. (in form mairsfeod) Scottish Obsolete the fee of a mair (sense 1a).

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1608 in E. D. Dunbar Moray Documents (1895) 69 The said office of Mairsfeod of the forsaid earldom of Murray is held in chief of James Earl of Murray.

† mayor's peer n. Obsolete any of a class of civic dignitaries ranking with the mayor; a former mayor.

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a1438 Bk. Margery Kempe (1940) i. 56 (MED) Þe forseyd preste..went to a worshepful burgeys in Lenn, a meyrs pere..whech lay in gret seknes.

a1541 in J. A. Twemlow Liverpool Town Bks. (1918) I. 13 Item, that all the burgesies..shalbe redie and wayte on the mayre at all feyres..in theyr best araye..and the mayres piers in theyre gownes..upon payne of ii^s.

1852 Archæol. Jrnl. 9 81 The two bailiffs are also called the two peers—‘deus peres’—of the mayor.]

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mayor
释义	mayorn. Brit. /mɛː/, U.S. /ˈmeɪ(ə)r/ Forms: Middle English maiere, Middle English maieur, Middle English mar, Middle English marye (probably transmission error), Middle English mayere, Middle English meer, Middle English mehir, Middle English meir, Middle English meire, Middle English mer, Middle English mere, Middle English meyhir, Middle English meyr, Middle English–1500s maier, Middle English–1500s mayer, Middle English–1500s mayr, Middle English–1500s meyer, Middle English–1500s meyre, Middle English–1600s maiour, Middle English–1600s mair, Middle English–1600s maire, Middle English–1600s mare, Middle English–1600s mayre, 1500s–1600s maior, 1500s–1700s (1800s– historical) major, 1500s– mayor, 1600s mawer, 1700s majer; Scottish pre-1700 maeir, pre-1700 maior, pre-1700 major, pre-1700 mar, pre-1700 mare, pre-1700 mayr, pre-1700 mayre, pre-1700 mer, pre-1700 1700s– mair, pre-1700 1800s maire. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French mair, maire. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman mair, maire, meir, meire, mer, mare and Old French, Middle French, French maire (c1170 ‘chief magistrate of a community’; in Old French also maior , maor , maieur ; 1789 in sense ‘elected chief municipal officer’) < post-classical Latin maior mayor (from 12th cent. in British and continental sources), village bailiff (late 10th cent.), feudal officer (early 6th cent.), person in authority (4th cent.), use as noun of classical Latin maior greater (see major adj.). With mair of fee n. at sense 1b compare post-classical Latin marifeodus (1488 in a Scottish source).Disyllabic forms, e.g. maieur (10th cent.) existed in Old French. A disyllabic pronunciation existed in Middle English, where it was a variant of a more common monosyllabic one. This pronunciation was represented in Middle English by forms such as maieur ; the early modern forms maior , maiour (after the spelling of the Latin word) may represent either a disyllabic or a monosyllabic pronunciation. (The form mayor originates in the early modern English orthographic standardization of y for i between vowels: compare prayer .) The disyllabic pronunciation survived in Britain at least into the 17th cent. (compare the pentameter ‘He sent command to the Lord Mayor straight’ in Henry VIII ii. i. 151), and perhaps into the 18th (the word is printed as May'r in the verse of Pope and Swift, implying that readers might regard it as ordinarily disyllabic). N.E.D. (1906) gives (mēⁱˌəɹ), (presumably for the disyllabic /ˈmeɪə(r)/, although the expected stress mark is absent from the first syllable), as one possible pronunciation, but other sources of similar date show that this was by then highly conservative in British usage. In North America, however, disyllabic pronunciations appear to have remained current in all periods. Old High German meior , meiur (Middle High German meier , meiger , German Meier ), Middle Dutch meier (Dutch meier ), in senses overseer, bailiff, steward, are from the post-classical Latin noun. Scottish Gaelic maor bailiff, steward (compare mormaer n.) is probably < the English word (see sense 1). Attested earlier as a surname: compare Geoffrey le Mair of Hereford (1242), although it is unclear whether this is to be interpreted as reflecting the Middle English or the Anglo-Norman word. 1. Scottish. Usually in form mair. a. Any of various officers with delegated jurisdiction or executive functions under the monarch or under some judicial authority. Now historical. ΚΠ c1260 in O. T. Bruce Liber Cartarum Prioratus St. Andree (1841) 383 Roberto le mare. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) iv. l. 359 The mar kepyt the port of that willage; Wallace knew weill. 1522–3 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1903) V. 209 Deliverit to the lord Zesteris heid mare our soverane lordis lettrez. a1530 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Royal) vii. 124 Thare eldast barnys and thare ayris Off erlys, baronys and off marys For ostage gret he tuk. 1544 in E. D. Dunbar Moray Documents (1895) 67 Principal Mair off the lands after specefied, viz. the Thayndaine [etc.]. 1609 J. Skene tr. Statute Alexander II in Regiam Majestatem f. 17^v He [sc. the Earle of Fife] may not enter as Earle; bot as Mair to the king of the Earledom of Fife. 1703 in Fountainhall's Decisions (1761) II. 196 The malversations of their mairs or messengers. 1845 J. Train Hist. & Statist. Acct. Isle of Man II. xix. 212 There were formerly officers, called mairs, with similar powers, appointed by the sheriff. 1930 I. F. Grant Social & Econ. Devel. Scotl. 44 The word mair..was still used for an official on Hebridean estates in the middle of the nineteenth century. b. mair of fee n. such an officer holding his office as a heritable possession. Now historical. ΚΠ 1429 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1814) II. 17/2 A mayr of fee quheþer he be mayr of þe hail schirefdome or of part sal haf powere [etc.]. c1626 H. Bisset Rolment Courtis (1920) I. 140 All mairis and officeris, alsweill of fie as in that pairt, quha executis the King his majesties letteres..suld have ane signet. 1872 C. Innes Lect. Sc. Legal Antiq. ii. 78 We had numerous mairdoms or subdivisions of sheriffdoms, and several mairs of fee, that is, hereditary mairs. 2. a. The head or chief officer of the municipal government of a city, borough, etc., now usually elected by local councillors or citizens (but appointed by central government up to the middle of the 19th cent. in most European countries), and serving as chairman of the council, chief executive officer, and now frequently also as an agent of central government charged with certain public responsibilities.In Scotland the term has been superseded by provost. In many U.S. cities, which were never controlled by central government, a system of municipal management now exists in which a city manager hired by the council holds most executive powers, the mayor only presiding over the council.Queenborough mayor: see Queenborough mayor n. Mayor of the Staple: see staple n.² 1a. See also Lord Mayor n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > holder of office > magistrate > municipal magistrate > [noun] > chief magistrate or mayor borough-reevec1000 portreeveOE sovereigna1325 mayorc1325 Lord Mayor1414 wick-master1587 c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 11226 Þe mer [of Oxford] was viniter. 1387–8 Petition London Mercers in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 34 When free men of the Citee [sc. London] come to chese her Mair. ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) i. 7917 Þei ȝede to þe Maire [a1450 Lamb. Meyre] of Kaermardyn. 1415 Proclam. in York Plays Introd. p. xxxiv Ye Mair and ye shirefs of yis Citee. c1450 (?c1300) Lay Folks Mass Bk. (York Min.) 69 We sall pray especially for þe meer. a1475 J. Russell Bk. Nurture (Harl. 4011) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 192 Þe meyre of london, notable of dignyte, and of queneborow þe meire, no þynge like in degre. 1555 in W. Page Inventories Church Goods York, Durham & Northumberland (1897) 157 One of the attorneys within the mayeres courte. 1599 Master Broughtons Lett. Answered ii. 9 As the runnaway apprentice thought, the bels recalling him, told him he should be Maior of London. c1600 Wriothesley's Chron. Eng. (1875) I. 31 Sir John Allen, maiour, being also one of the Kinge's Counsell. c1613 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 87 To the behaufe of the mawer of the Cyte of Yorke & his bredren. 1681 H. Prideaux Lett. (1875) 107 The mayor haveing unreasonably taken many licences for ale houses without a legal cause, the excisemen came and complained to the Vice-Chancellor of it. 1710 Ld. Godolphin Let. 16 Mar. in H. L. Snyder Marlborough–Godolphin Corr. (1975) III. 1436 My Lord Sunderland had a letter from the town majer of Calais. 1765 T. Hutchinson Hist. Colony Massachusets-Bay, 1628–91 (ed. 2) 176 A corporation, consisting of a mayor, eight aldermen and a recorder. 1792 N.-Y. Directory 143 Varick, Richard, mayor of the city, 11, Queen-street. 1805 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. V. 60 The Mayor of the said city shall have full power..to receive and record all and every such fine and fines. 1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 6 Nov. 10 Arab adjoints are to be associated with European mayors in towns and villages. 1907 Nation (N.Y.) 12 Sept. 222/2 The office of mayor has been the tomb of many political ambitions. 1963 E. L. Peters in J. Pitt-Rivers Mediterranean Countrymen 169 They captured whatever administrative posts have been available in the village—mayor, mukhtar, municipal clerk. 1997 Daily Tel. 15 May 9/3 The paving Bill would also allow for a directly-elected mayor for London. †b. In Ireland: (probably) any of a group of senior members (perhaps chief or capital burgesses) of a municipal body, one of which is also the mayor (sense 2a). Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1557 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 416 That ther be no more but twellve Mayors and the Mayor for the tyme beinge. c. In any of various mock titles. Now U.S.: a person regarded as eminent or worthy of respect in a particular area.The earliest quots. allude to a ‘mayor’ who was formerly elected periodically by an association of the villagers of Garratt, near Wandsworth (now part of London). ΚΠ 1764 S. Foote (title) The Mayor of Garratt. 1807 W. H. Ireland Stultifera Navis xxvii. 112 When halt and blind shall the fandango dance, And Garrat's mayor usurp the throne of France. 1888 Dict. National Biogr. at Dunstan, Jeffrey On the death of ‘Sir’ John Harper in 1785, ‘Sir’ Jeffrey was elected mayor of Garrett... He was successful at three successive elections, but in 1796 was ousted from his office by ‘Sir’ Harry Dimsdale. 1902 Westm. Gaz. 22 May 2/3 A boatman on the Bolton and Bury Canal has been selected as ‘Lord Mayor of the village of Ringley’. 1902 Westm. Gaz. 22 May 2/3 In some parts the burlesque civic official was designated ‘Mayor of the Pig Market’. 1982 R. Shilts (title) The Mayor of Castro Street. 2000 GQ Nov. 370 Bob Pierson, the ‘mayor’ of Southern Cross, is a very different presence. †3. gen. Any person holding high judicial office. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > [noun] > one holding high judicial office mayorc1390 c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. viii. 171 Ȝe meires and ȝe maister iuges. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 7036 Þair leder and þair maister mair [a1400 Gött. mare]. c1450 J. Capgrave Life St. Katherine (Arun. 396) (1893) v. 1241 There was a man in Alisaundre..Meyer and leedere of alle the puple there. 4. Mayor of the Palace n. (Major of the Palace) [after post-classical Latin major palatii (12th cent.) and, in later use, Middle French, French maire du palais (1573); compare post-classical Latin majores palatii palace dignitaries (early 6th cent.), and major-domo n.] a nominal subordinate wielding the power of his titular superior. Now historical.Originating in the Frankish kingdoms under the later Merovingian kings; hence also Mayor of Austrasia, Mayor of Neustria. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > head of government > [noun] > first minister of a ruler or state > prime minister of Frankish kingdom Mayor of the Palace?1530 ?1530 J. Rastell Pastyme of People sig. Di^v Cloyter son of clouis..ordeynyd mayrs of the palys. 1679 E. Everard Disc. Protestant Princes 28 The Election of a Palatine or Major of the Palace, who was the Consul and Head of the People. 1770 T. Percy tr. P. H. Mallet Northern Antiq. I. viii. 161 The nations of German extraction..had either Mayors of the Palace, or Grand Marshals, or Constables. 1818 H. Hallam View Europe Middle Ages I. i. 5 Ebroin and Grimoald, mayors of Neustria and Austrasia. 1838 Times 5 July 4/3 We must therefore presume that some..Major of the Palace may have been the censurable party. 1841 T. B. Macaulay Ess., W. Hastings (1887) 653 His Peshwa, or mayor of the palace, a great hereditary magistrate. 1879 Encycl. Brit. IX. 530/2 We reach the days of the ‘do-naught’ princes, the roi fainéants, and of the struggle between the mayors of Austrasia and Neustria. 1939 T. S. Eliot Idea Christian Society (1940) i. 12 It [sc. democracy] has arrived perhaps at the position of a Merovingian Emperor, and wherever it is invoked, one begins to look for the Major of the Palace. 1976 Speculum 51 405 At first it seemed that an hereditary family of dukes, the Pepinides, would not only succeed in monopolizing the office of Mayor of the Palace, but even in having one of their number succeed to the Austrasian throne. Compounds C1. a. General attributive. mayor-choosing n. ΚΠ 1823 T. Bond Topogr. & Hist. Sketches E. & W. Looe 277 Mayor-choosing Days. The following Table..shews the Days of the Mayor-choosing at East Looe. 1951 West Briton 28 May (Evening ed.) 4 (caption) The Mayor-choosing ceremony, on Monday. b. † mayor-corn n. Scottish Obsolete an ancient tax of corn given to the mair (see sense 1a). ΚΠ 1606 in E. D. Dunbar Moray Documents (1895) 68 The haill Mair cornes, reik hens, and uther casualities and feis quatsumevir of the tounis and lands of Tarress [etc.]. mayor-making n. a ceremony at which a mayor is installed. ΚΠ 1938 New Statesman 19 Feb. 277/2 No public statement..was made until..November 9th, when it was overshadowed by the mayor-making ceremony. 1991 Parl. Affairs 44 545 My small town provided shared rituals—mayor-making, Remembrance day, Charter day—which were colourful, dignified and unifying. † mayor-town n. Obsolete (a) a town ruled by a mayor; (b) Scottish a farm or piece of land held by a mair (see sense 1a) by right of his office. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town > [noun] > borough burrows-townc1175 mayor-town1375 boroughc1380 borough-town1382 burghc1425 corporate town1478 royal burgh1591 county borough1708 municipality1790 Royal Borough1805 county1888 1375 in J. M. Thomson Registrum Magni Sigilli Scotorum (1912) I. 224 Nos dedisse..Willelmo Herowart, officium mari nostri orientalis quarterii de Fyff, una cum terra vocata le Maretona eidem officio annexa. 1520 in W. C. Dickinson Sheriff Court Bk. Fife (1928) 182 Johnne Ramkelour tennent of the mairetoune. 1582 R. Madox Diary 21 Apr. in E. S. Donno Elizabethan in 1582 (1976) 116 Wynchester..is waled squar and a mayr town. 1623 J. Taylor New Discouery by Sea A 4 Then downe to Erith, 'gainst the tyde we went, Next London, greatest Mayor [1630 Maior] towne in Kent. c1710 C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 4 Y^e Assizes is allwayes kept at Salsebury and is a Major town though Wilton about 2 mile off is y^e County town. 1751 S. Whatley England's Gazetteer at Sittingborn In the R. of Eliz. this was made a mayor-T. 1798 W. Robertson Index Rec. Charters Scotl. 120 Carta to William Herowart, of the office of Mairship of the east quarter of Fife, with the land called the Mairtoun, whilk William Mair resigned. C2. Compounds with mayor's. mayor's banquet n. a banquet presided over by a mayor. ΚΠ 1872 Appletons' Jrnl. 2 Nov. 484/1 For some centuries it was the custom for the king to come to the mayor's banquet. 1997 C. Shields Larry's Party (1998) i. 12 He delivered the flowers after the mayor's banquet. mayor's court n. a court of law under the jurisdiction of a mayor; the room or building in which such a court is held. ΚΠ 1647 City-law Guild-Hall London 1 The Mayors Court is held by custom of the City before the Mayor and Aldermen that are for the time, in the Chamber of the Guild-Hall, or in the hustings, from day to day in their will. 1682 London Gaz. No. 1738/4 [He] appointed the Common-Serjeant, the Town-Clerk, the two Secondaries, and the four Attorneys of the Mayors Court,..to take the Poll. a1777 S. Foote Nabob (1778) iii. 69 Our practice is different in the Mayor's Court at Calcutta. 1833 E. T. Coke Subaltern's Furlough iv Of the public buildings, the City Hall, containing the supreme court, mayor's court, and various public offices,..is the most remarkable. 1991 Past & Present Aug. 53 In the summer of 1652 the presentment jury of the mayor's court found thirty-five morals offences. † mayor's feast n. Obsolete = mayor's banquet n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > meal > feast > [noun] > feasts for other occasions plough feast1355 king ale1472 natal1484 primifeste1551 mayor's feast1578 sheep-shearing feast1586 sheep-shearing1611 christening1617 bean-feast1805 updrinking1819 Thanksgiving dinner1830 bump supper1845 potlatch1858 stag1904 rehearsal dinner1906 1578 G. Whetstone Promos & Cassandra II. i. vi. sig. Hi (stage direct.) Phallax, Two men, apparrelled, lyke greene men at the Mayors feast, with clubbes of fyre worke. 1701 F. Evans Diary (1903) 54 My Ld. went to the Mayor's feast to Worcester. c1841 J. T. Haines Richard Plantagenet i. i. 12 Wait till the mayor's feast is ended. † mayorsfeud n. (in form mairsfeod) Scottish Obsolete the fee of a mair (sense 1a). ΚΠ 1608 in E. D. Dunbar Moray Documents (1895) 69 The said office of Mairsfeod of the forsaid earldom of Murray is held in chief of James Earl of Murray. † mayor's peer n. Obsolete any of a class of civic dignitaries ranking with the mayor; a former mayor. ΚΠ a1438 Bk. Margery Kempe (1940) i. 56 (MED) Þe forseyd preste..went to a worshepful burgeys in Lenn, a meyrs pere..whech lay in gret seknes. a1541 in J. A. Twemlow Liverpool Town Bks. (1918) I. 13 Item, that all the burgesies..shalbe redie and wayte on the mayre at all feyres..in theyr best araye..and the mayres piers in theyre gownes..upon payne of ii^s. 1852 Archæol. Jrnl. 9 81 The two bailiffs are also called the two peers—‘deus peres’—of the mayor.] This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1260
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