bailieship
(ˈbeɪlɪʃɪp)
Forms: 4– bailly-, baili-, bayely-, baili-, bealie-, bayly-, bailie-, -ship, -shyppe.
[f. bailie + -ship: see also bailiffship.]
† 1. Stewardship. lit. and fig. Obs.
| c 1375 Wyclif Serm. Sel. Wks. 1869 I. 22 A reckenynge of þi baillyship. 1532 G. Hervet Xenophon's Househ. (1768) 58 What profyte shulde we haue by his bayelyshyppe? 1582 N.T. (Rhem.) Luke xvi. 2 Render account of thy bailiship: for now thou canst no more be bailife. |
2. The office of a bailie or (obs.) a bailiff.
| c 1472 Plumpton Corr. 27 The office of the bailiship of Sesey. 1589 Wills & Inv. N.C. (1860) 166 With all my ryght of the bealieship of Carham. 1602 W. Fulbecke 2nd Pt. Parall. 45 More agreable to our lawe especially in this matter of bailieship. |
3. The district under a bailie or bailiff.
| 1502 Arnold Chron (1811) 212 Them which out of his baylyship comen as marchauntis. 1681 Lond. Gaz. No. 1598/2 The Baylyship of Drenthe, which is a part of the Province of Groningen. |