the jurisdiction of a viscount or the territory under his authority
Word origin
[1580–90; viscount + -y3]This word is first recorded in the period 1580–90. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: category, critical, humanist, reference, scramble-y is a suffix of various origins used in the formation of action nouns from verbs (inquiry), also found in other abstract nouns (carpentry; infamy)