单词 | vice-king |
释义 | vice-kingn. One who rules as the representative of a king; a viceroy. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > governor of province, dependency, or colony > [noun] > viceroy deputyc1490 viceroy1524 vizrey1583 prorex1589 vice-king1589 1589 Voy. Sir F. Drake in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations iii. sig. Mmm8 In coasting along the Island of Mutyr, belonging to the King of Ternate, his Deputie or Viceking..came with his Canoa to vs. 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 132 Vnder his protection we went vp and downe the Citie, as if we had beene so many Vice Kings of the Country. 1659 R. Baxter Key for Catholicks i. xlii. 300 A Deputy, or Vice-King in Ireland. 1681 R. Baxter Acct. Sherlocke vi. 210 There is no need of a Vice King to make this a Kingdom. 1686 J. Scott Christian Life: Pt. II II. vii. 1267 So that now he is subject to the Father in the capacity of a Vice-King to a supreme Sovereign. 1801 Asiatic Ann. Reg. 1800 Hist. India 24/2 He appointed Don Francis D'Almeyda, Governor~general, with the pompous title of Vice King of the Indies. 1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold I. iii. iii. 185 Farther still down the hall are the great civil lords and vice-king vassals of the ‘Lord Paramount’. 1876 Ld. Tennyson Harold ii. ii. 64 Thou shalt be verily king—all but the name—For I shall most sojourn in Normandy; And thou be my vice-king in England. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1589 |
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