captaincy
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English
Etymology
From captain + -cy. Piecewise doublet of chieftaincy.
Pronunciation
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Noun
captaincy (countable and uncountable, plural captaincies)
- The rank or status of a captain.
- Synonym: captainship
- The jurisdiction of a captain.
- (historical) An administrative division of the former Spanish and Portuguese colonial empires.
- Synonym: capitania
- 1828, Juan van Halen, Narrative of Don Juan Van Halen's Imprisonment in the Dungeons of the Inquistion at Madrid:
- He obtains a captaincy in the Catalonian army
- 1859, Garcilaso de la Vega, Christóbel de Acuña, Clements Robert Markham, Expeditions Into the Valley of the Amazons:
- The territory bathed by this river belongs to the captaincy of Benito Maciel the father.
Derived terms
Translations
rank or status of a captain