Chancellor
['tʃɑːns(ə)lə] or ['tʃænsəlɚ]
Definition
(noun.) the honorary or titular head of a university.
(noun.) the person who is head of state (in several countries).
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Definition
(n.) A judicial court of chancery, which in England and in the United States is distinctively a court with equity jurisdiction.
Editor: Olivia
Definition
n. (Shak.) secretary: the president of a court of chancery or other court: the official who keeps the registers of an order of knighthood: the titular head of a university: (Scot.) the foreman of a jury.—ns. Chan′cellorship; Chan′cellory.—Chancellor of a cathedral an officer who formerly had charge of the chapter library custody of the common seal superintendence of the choir practices and headship of the cathedral schools; Chancellor of a diocese an ecclesiastical judge uniting the functions of vicar-general and official principal appointed to assist the bishop in questions of ecclesiastical law and hold his courts for him; Chancellor of the Exchequer the chief minister of finance in the British government; Lord Chancellor Lord High Chancellor the presiding judge of the Court of Chancery the keeper of the great seal and the first lay person of the state after the blood-royal.
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Examples
- Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The late Lord Chancellor, gentlemen, was very fond of me,' said Mr. Pell. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The Jarndyce in question, said the Lord Chancellor, still turning over leaves, is Jarndyce of Bleak House. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Her judgments ought to be correct when they come, for they are often as tardy of delivery as a Lord Chancellor's. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It'll do you good; it'll freshen you up and get you into training for another turn at the Chancellor. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Now, for example, Mr. Traddles,' said Mrs. Micawber, assuming a profound air, 'a judge, or even say a Chancellor. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- My Lady's cause has been again before the Chancellor, has it, Mr. Tulkinghorn? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He is called among the neighbours the Lord Chancellor. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- You know I am the Chancellor. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He asked Harriet Livingston, a near relation of his friend the Chancellor, to become his wife. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- My aunt, looking very like an immovable Chancellor of the Exchequer, would occasionally throw in an interruption or two, as 'Hear! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The Lord High Chancellor, at his best, appeared so poor a substitute for the love and pride of parents. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The Lord Chancellor then threw down a bundle of papers from his desk to the gentlemen below him, and somebody said, Jarndyce and Jarndyce. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The next exploit of the young monarch was to quarrel with the old Chancellor, Bismarck, who had made the new German Empire, and to dismiss him (1890). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Chancellor must make sure of London. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
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