ˈpriorship
[f. prior n. + -ship.]
The office or dignity of a prior.
| 1553 Becon Reliques of Rome (1563) 22 b, Those byshops which sell..priorships, or any other ecclesiasticall dignityes..should be adiudged Simoniakes. 1626 MS. Acc. St. John's Hosp., Canterb., Rec. for my whole wages dureing my Pryorshipp the some of vj s viij d. 1671 Woodhead St. Teresa ii. xviii. 120 Father Antonio quitted his Priorship with great willingness. 1762 tr. Busching's Syst. Geog. IV. 66 The order of St. John has likewise a priorship or grand priorship in Bohemia. 1840 Carlyle Heroes iii. (1872) 82 In Dante's Priorship, the Guelf-Ghibelline, Bianchi-Neri, or some other confused disturbances rose to such a height, that Dante..was with his friends cast unexpectedly forth into banishment. 1900 Gasquet Eve of Reformation ii. 24 Election to the Priorship at Canterbury. |