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单词 vice-county
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vice-countyn.

Brit. /ˌvʌɪsˈkaʊnti/, U.S. /ˌvaɪsˈkaʊn(t)i/
Etymology: In sense 1 < Old French viconté, -ei, -ey, etc. (modern French vicomté ) viscounty n., or medieval Latin vicecomitātus , < vicecomes : see vice-count n. In sense 2, < vice- prefix + county n.1 2.
1. A viscounty. Obsolete. rare.
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).
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