单词 | sheriffalty |
释义 | sheriffalty|ˈʃɛrɪfəltɪ| Also 6 shirevalty, sheryaltie, 7 sheralltie, sherivalty, -ifalty, shirevealty, shirifalty. [f. sheriff + -al1 + -ty, after words like royalty.] = shrievalty.
1518Star Chamber Cases (Selden Soc.) II. 162 The seid Office of Sheryaltie. 1611Speed Theat. Gt. Brit. xx[i]x. 57/2 The Office of Execution and custody of this County [Huntingdon] is the Sheralfty [? read Sherfalty], of old inheritable. 1617Shuttleworths' Acc. (Chetham Soc.) 227 The patent of my Mrs office of y⊇ sheralltie. 1648Persecutio Undecima 57 Alderman Pennington [chosen] for his knowne zeale by his keeping a fasting Sabboth throughout his Shirifalty. 1682Enq. Elect. Sheriffs 29 The Sherifalty of London. Ibid. 41 Sherivalty. 1753Richardson Grandison (1781) I. viii. 35 Sir Rowland Meredith, knighted in his Sheriffalty. 1870Foss Biog. Dict. Judges of Eng. 54 The Michaelmas solemnities of the sheriffalty of London. fig.1865Bushnell Vicar. Sacrif. iii. v. 269 Sending out the rugged sheriffalty of law and penal enforcement. |

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