| 单词 | privy signet |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprivy signet privy signet n. = signet n. 1b; the office in which royal documents were prepared and the privy signet affixed to them; a document given under this signet. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > marking > imprinting > sealing > [noun] > seal > official or sovereign green waxa1350 secret seal1378 privy seal1410 signet1410 Great Seal1419 private seal1440 common seal1449 cocket1451 privy signet1477 half-seal1509 targec1510 broad seal1550 1477 in Antiquary (1891) 105/1 The foresaid Mayor resceyved a prive signet by the hande of a servante of the Kyngs, the tenour whereof herafter ensueth. a1525 (?1424) Coventry Leet Bk. (1907) I. 84 (MED) Yeven vndur our pryvy signett at London, the xxvij day of Juyn. 1662 J. Dauncey Eng. Lovers ii. 118 Captain Goodlake having got the Kings privy Signet, and the Military Word, for that night. 1735 Lives Most Remarkable Criminals I. Pref. viii Counterfeiting the Sign Manual or Privy Signet, is also made High Treason. 1854 H. Cox Brit. Commonw. xxxi. 403 Recently, many formalities respecting the privy signet and privy seal, and the offices connected with them, have been abolished. 1918 S. L. Mershon Eng. Crown Grants 203 It is then subscribed at the top, with the King's own sign manual and sealed with his privy-signet. 2007 R. Hutchinson Thomas Cromwell vi. 134 He also received a share of the profits of the Privy Signet. < as lemmas |
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