单词 | muster-master |
释义 | muster-mastern. Now chiefly historical. 1. a. An officer in charge of the muster roll of part of an army or (less commonly) of a dockyard, penal colony, etc.; a person responsible for the accuracy of a muster roll. muster-master general n. a person responsible for the muster of a whole army, etc.; also chief muster-master, general muster-master. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer according to function > [noun] > muster-master commissary of the musters1548 muster-master1548 chief muster-master1593 muster-master general1593 1548 in Cal. State Papers: Domest. (1870) Add. 379 Instructions by the Lord Protector and Council for John Brende, muster master in the Northern parts. 1579 L. Digges & T. Digges Stratioticos 102 He may admonish the Muster Mayster and Treasourer. 1593 Act 35 Eliz. c4. sig.Bivv Which Certificate shall be also allowed by the generall Muster master for the time being, residing here within this Realme. 1595 in Cal. MSS Marquis of Salisbury (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1894) V. 240 Thomas Digges, muster master general. 1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres ii. 24 We haue Muster-masters appointed in euerie Shiere. 1622 F. Markham Five Decades Epist. of Warre iv. i. 122 Muster-Masters..are very odious vnto Captaines; for in seruing of his Prince truly, and in mustering stricktly he wipeth much vndue profit from the Captaine. 1667 S. Pepys Diary 18 Jan. (1974) VIII. 19 A letter from the Duke of York, commanding our payment of no wages to any of the muster-maisters of the fleet. 1702 London Gaz. No. 3825/3 Her Majesty has been pleased to constitute the Rt. Hon. the Lord Walden Commissary-General of the Musters, and chief Muster-master of Her Majesty's Forces. 1707 London Gaz. No. 4310/2 Her Majesty has been..pleased..to..appoint Michael Hyde Esq; Commissary and Mustermaster-General of all the Forces. 1775 Mass. Prov. Congr. 6 May (1823) 199 Muster masters in the Massachusetts army, whose business it shall be to pass muster on every soldier that shall be enlisted into said army. 1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. Muster-master-general, Commissary-general of the Musters, one who takes account of every regiment, their number, horses, arms, &c. 1815 W. Burney Falconer's New Universal Dict. Marine (rev. ed.) Muster-master, in royal dock-yards, a person appointed by the Navy Board, to call over the lists of all his Majesty's ship's companies in the different ports; as also the artificers working on board, in order to prevent false musters. 1896 Peterson's Mag. 6 288/1 Washington directed Colonel James Glover and Muster-Master-General Moyland to co-operate with the Board of Admiralty. 1938 William & Mary Coll. Q. Hist. Mag. 18 38 A long list of fees, carefully itemized, was established by the assembly..for..the muster master. 1997 J. Adamson in N. Ferguson Virtual Hist. (1998) i. 101 For all the problems that the King encountered—from laggardly muster-masters..[to] overstretched Ordnance Office clerks—it appeared to contemporaries that the war..was one which Charles I could have won. ΚΠ 1602 W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions 287 Their ringleader, and muster-master father Parsons. 1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ iii. ii. 449 Lucretius gives us in so exact an account of the several courses the Atoms took up in disposing themselves into bodyes, as though he had been Muster-Master-General at that great Rendes-vous. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer by rank > [noun] > sergeant > types of havildar1698 muster-master1711 staff sergeant1811 lance-sergeant1815 master sergeant1920 staff1925 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 134. ⁋4 A new sort of Muster-master, who teaches Ladies the whole Exercise of the Fan. DerivativesΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer according to function > [noun] > muster-master > position of mustermastership1665 1665 S. Pepys Diary 12 Mar. (1972) VI. 54 We talked also of getting W. How to be put into the Muster-maistershipp in the room of Creed. 1763 H. Walpole Let. to Earl of Hertford 2 Dec. Mr. Calcraft being turned out yesterday, from some muster-mastership. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1548 |
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