单词 | presidentship |
释义 | presidentshipn. The office or function of a president, presidency; the fact of being a president; (also) the period during which a president holds office.Now frequently found in Indian English. ΘΚΠ society > authority > control > person in control > [noun] > one who presides > over a body of persons or their meetings > position of presidentshipc1525 presidency1581 presidence1606 society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > [noun] > president or chairperson of > office of presidence1606 presidency1608 prolocutorshipa1650 Speakership1653 chair1659 presidentship1711 chairpersonship1982 society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > head of government > [noun] > in a republic > (period of) office of presidency1608 presidentship1884 c1525 L. Stubbs to Wolsey in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1846) 3rd Ser. II. 66 I do thank your Grace for my restitucion of the possession of my Presedentship of Magdalen College at Oxford. 1550 King Edward VI Chron. & Polit. Papers (1966) (modernized text) 35 Instructions..how to behave..in the presidentship. 1619 in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times James I (1849) (modernized text) II. 161 They confirmed Sir Thomas Smith in his presidentship of the Bermudas, or Summer Islands. 1687 London Gaz. No. 2299/2 They ordered him forthwith to depart the College,..declaring the Presidentship to be Void. 1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi iii. ii. xxiii. 140/1 In..the Seventeen Year of his Presidentship, over Harvard-College. 1711 London Gaz. No. 4938/1 The Presidentship of the Council of the Finances. 1779 Hist. Eur. in Ann. Reg. 131/1 The appointment of his brother..to the government and presidentship of Madras. 1842 G. Barmby in Promethean Jan. 14/1 This group is quietly progressing under the..presidentship of Henry Fry, the editor of the ‘Educational Circular and Communist Apostle.’ 1884 Lady Verney in Contemp. Rev. Oct. 552 A leading politician, who is looking forward to the Presidentship. 1938 J. Nehru Let. 9 Jan. in Freedom's Daughter (1989) iii. 355 Subhai Bose..will be declared elected to the Congress Presidentship in another week or ten days. 1986 Illustr. Weekly India 13 July 21/4 He has been asked..to vacate the Akali Dal presidentship in favour of Badal. 2008 K. V. Ramanathan Satyamurti Lett. iv. 224 Subhas himself..had to resign the Congress presidentship later that year. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1525 |
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