chancellory

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Adapted to chancellor.

Noun[edit]

chancellory (plural chancellories)

  1. Alternative spelling of chancellery
    • 1918, Pierre Souvestre, A Royal Prisoner[1]:
      The hall of the chancellory had been transformed into a cloakroom and there the crowd was thickest.
    • 1915, John Holland Rose, The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.)[2]:
      Bismarck's successor in the chancellory, Count Caprivi, set matters in their true light in a speech in the Reichstag shortly after the publication of Bismarck's Reminiscences.
    • 1899, Edward A. Johnson, History of Negro Soldiers in the Spanish-American War, and Other Items of Interest[3]:
      Senor Polo had personally brought the document from the chancellory above." "