ushershipn.
/ˈʌʃəʃɪp/, U.S. /ˈəʃərˌʃɪp/ 1. The office or functions of an usher.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > office > holder of office > ceremonial officials > [noun] > usher > office of
ushership1580
the world > movement > progressive motion > order of movement > going first or in front > [noun] > one who goes first > as an official of a court or household > position of
ushership1580
1580 W. Fulke T. Stapleton & Martiall Confuted iv. 165 Ye Priestes are appointed to vse those signes, which if Martials Vshership will not admit, [etc.].
1631 T. Powell Tom of All Trades 44 To leape into instantly, and imediately out of a Ladies vshership.
1740 Ld. Harrington in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. i. 275 The Ushership of the Exchequer.
1788 W. Cowper Let. 30 Nov. (1982) III. 233 I was under his ushership at Westminster.
1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. III. 130 To assume the ushership of the black rod at Montgomery Place.
1881 Daily News 1 Aug. 5/3 In Algeria..his years of ushership had been the most wretched of his life.
2. A post or position as a (school-) usher.
ΘΚΠ
society > education > teaching > teacher > schoolteacher or schoolmaster > [noun] > assistant teacher > position of
ushership1825
usherdom1836
1825 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 79 The son..being put to school, obtained successive usherships.
1880 R. K. Dent Old & New Birmingham 79 Johnson having found the drudgery of an ushership..too irksome for him.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
<
n.1580