单词 | servant at arms |
释义 | > as lemmasservant at (formerly †of) arms ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > armed retainer > [noun] housecarlOE lede kempc1275 lede knightc1275 lede thegnc1275 sergeant-at-arms1377 servanta1400 myrmidon1620 society > authority > office > holder of office > official of royal or great household > [noun] > head of specific department servanta1400 sergeant1450 society > law > legal profession > lawyer > [noun] > counsellor, barrister, or advocate > serjeant sergeant1297 countourc1325 the King's (or Queen's) Serjeant1423 servant1511 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 2516 (MED) He dud to geder to gider his men þre hundride eiȝte seruauntis & ten. a1450 (?a1300) Richard Coer de Lyon (Caius) (1810) l. 1641 Hys knyghtes weren dyght, al redy, Servauntes off armes, and squyers. 1508 Bk. Keruynge (de Worde) sig. A.ivv Also yf marshall squyers and seruauntes of armes be there. 1511 Chron. in R. Dyboski Songs, Carols, & Other Misc. Poems (1907) 156 This yer ix. seruantis of þe coyff made. 1615 E. Grimeston tr. P. d'Avity Estates 1147 If any one is receiued against the forme prescribed, if he be a knight he shall be a brother seruant, if a seruant at armes, he shal be of office, and if he be a chaplain, he shall be a brother of obedience. 1700 C. Davenant Disc. Grants & Resumptions iii. 176 For John Hoghton and other Servants at Arms, as to their Patentes, 'tis to be suppos'd for their Employments. 1787 A. Hawkins tr. V. Mignot Hist. Turkish Empire II. 44 The council, affrighted, seeing that it was impossible to resist both within and without, ordered a servant at arms to hoist a white flag. < as lemmas |
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