单词 | paper-office |
释义 | † paper-officen. Obsolete. An office or building where documents were kept; spec. (with capital initials) the State Paper Office in London (see state paper n. at state n. Compounds 3a). Also: a place attached to the King's or Queen's Bench where court records and other legal documents were formerly kept. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > written record > arrangement and storage of written records > [noun] > place where official records are kept > specific rolls1527 paper-office1637 pell officea1650 will office1672 land-office1681 society > communication > record > written record > arrangement and storage of written records > [noun] > place where official records are kept > specific > attached to King's or Queen's Bench paper-office1707 1637 Will of Henry Wotton in I. Walton Life Sir H. Wotton 70 Item I leave his said Majesty all the Papers..that perchance his Majesty will think fit to be preserved in his Paper-Office. 1658 J. Eliot Poems 5 I have my Paper-office search't. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1670 (1955) III. 563 I received..ten paper-bookes of Dispatches & Treaties, to returne which againe, I gave a note under my hand to the Master of the Paper Office. 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I. (at cited word) All..Letters of Intelligence, and many other Publick Papers communicated to the King's Council, or the two Secretaries of State, are afterwards transmitted to the Paper-Office, wherein they are all disposed in a place of good Security and Convenience within the King's Royal Palace. 1707 J. Chamberlayne Angliæ Notitia (ed. 22) iii. 692 The Custos Brevium, Nisi Prius, and the Paper Offices, are in the Queen's-Bench Office in the Temple. ?1782 in 30th Rep. Deputy Keeper Public Rec. (1869) App. 270 Paper Office, Application for the old office adjoining to Whitehall Chapel. 1886 Dict. National Biogr. at Carte, Thomas He complains that Rapin had had no knowledge of the documentary sources of English history..and the contents of the Paper Office had been quite neglected by him. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1637 |
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