单词 | vice-county |
释义 | vice-countyn.ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > jurisdiction or territory of specific rulers or nobles > [noun] > of a viscount viscounty1611 vice-county1639 1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre iii. xxii. 147 And for a breakfast to begin with, he [sc. Simon de Montfort] was seised of the Vicecounty of Besiers. 1706 J. Stevens New Spanish Dict. i Villa-Nueva de Cardenas, a Town in..Andaluzia,..made a Vice-County by King Philip the 4th. 2. A division of a large county, treated as a county-area with regard to the distribution of species of plants, etc. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > an administrative division of territory > [noun] > administrative divisions in Britain > shire or county shire?a1000 county?a1400 vice-county1859 shire county1972 1859 H. C. Watson Cybele Britannica IV. 130 Smaller and more numerous sections could be formed by dividing the great counties into vice-counties. 1873–4 H. C. Watson Topogr. Bot. (title page) The 112 Counties and Vice-counties of England, Wales, and Scotland. 1890 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip 26 110/1 Not more than ten out of the 112 counties and vice-counties into which Great Britain is divided. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1639 |
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