单词 | viceroyalty |
释义 | viceroyaltyn. 1. a. The office, rank, or authority of a viceroy. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > governor of province, dependency, or colony > [noun] > viceroy > position of viceroyship1639 viceroyalty1703 viceroydom1711 1703 London Gaz. No. 3883/1 The Ambassador is not contented.., having entertained great hopes of being advanced to the Viceroyalty of Naples. 1749 T. Smollett tr. A. R. Le Sage Gil Blas III. viii. ii. 120 Here I saw commanders and knights of Calatrava and St. Iago, solliciting for governments and viceroyalties. 1801 Asiatic Ann. Reg. 1800 Hist. India 29/2 Pedro Malcarenhas, on whom the viceroyalty devolved on the decease of Meneses. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vi. 156 Sunderland..offered to procure for Tyrconnel supreme military command, enormous appointments, anything but the vice-royalty. 1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. vi. 475 This fact, coupled with Thurkill's similar viceroyalty in Denmark, shows that Cnut [etc.]. b. In quasi-concrete use: A viceroy or viceregal household. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > governor of province, dependency, or colony > [noun] > viceroy > household of viceroyalty1842 1842 S. Lover Handy Andy ix Fancy might suggest that the house rejoiced, as it were, in its honoured position,..because it was under the nose of viceroyalty. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 16 Sept. 4/2 This property..was bought by the Government in 1864 as a dwelling for Viceroyalty. 2. A province or dependency commonly administered by a viceroy. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > territory under a governor or official > [noun] > under a viceroy viceroyship1609 viceroyalty1715 1715 London Gaz. No. 5323/2 The..Ship..which is to carry the Prince to his Viceroyalty of Peru. 1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. vii. (1778) II. 332 Costa Rica and Veragua..belong to the vice-royalty of New Spain. 1816 J. K. Tuckey Narr. Exped. River Zaire (1818) iv. 159 The opposite sides of the river form two vice royalties. 1844 Queen's Regulations & Orders Army 37 The Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland shall be entitled to receive from the forts and batteries within His Vice-Royalty a Royal Salute. 1874 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. X. xxvii. 538 The seeds of rebellion were already [in 1782] sown in the vice-royalties of Buenos Ayres and Peru. 3. The period during which a particular viceroy holds office. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > sole rule > [noun] > period of rule of viceroy viceroyship1709 viceroyalty1849 society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > governor of province, dependency, or colony > [noun] > viceroy > position of > term of viceroyship1709 viceroyalty1849 1849 H. Martineau Introd. Hist. Peace (1877) III. v. ii. 207 Ireland had never been so well governed as during the vice~royalty of Lord Mulgrave. 1865 A. Maffei Brigand Life II. 21 During the vice-royalty of the Count of Castrillo. 1883 R. B. Smith Life Ld. Lawrence II. xxviii. 534 There had been a deficit in more than one year of his Viceroyalty. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1703 |
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