revisershipn.
/rᵻˈvʌɪzəʃɪp/, U.S. /rəˈvaɪzərˌʃɪp/, /riˈvaɪzərˌʃɪp/ Now rare.
The position or office of a reviser, spec. that of a revising barrister.
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society > law > legal profession > lawyer > [noun] > counsellor, barrister, or advocate > appointed to revise list of electors > position of
revisership1857
1857 True to Nature I. viii. 127 He has already (with a revisership just promised) about five hundred a-year.
1882 Pall Mall Gaz. 5 July 4/1 Every kind of legal office in England—recorderships, reviserships, judgeships, &c.
1908 J. B. Atlay Victorian Chancellors II. viii. 197 (note) Campbell never lost sight of him [sc. John Duke Coleridge], nominating him to a revisership in 1851.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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