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2. A large wax candle used in the ceremonies of various churches.
A manufacturer of serges.
of Sergeancy
The office of a sergeant; sergeantship.
1. s'arjent . [Latin serviens , serving, for so was this word written in Latin.]
2. Formerly, an officer in England, nearly answering to to the more modern bailif of the hundred; also, an officer whose duty was to attend on the king, and on the lord high steward in court, to arrest traitors and other effenders. This officer is now called serjeant at arms , or mace . There are at present other officers of an inferior kind, to attend mayors and magistrates to execute their orders.
3. In military affairs , a non-commissioned officer in a company of infantry or troop of dragoons, armed with halbert, whose duty is to see discipline is observed, to order and form the ranks, etc.
4. In England , a lawyer of the highest rank, answering to the doctor of the civil law.
1. Formerly, in England, an officer nearly answering to the more modern bailiff of the hundred; also, an officer whose duty was to attend on the king, and on the lord high steward in court, to arrest traitors and other offenders. He is now called sergeant-at-arms, and two of these officers, by allowance of the sovereign, attend on the houses of Parliament (one for each house) to execute their commands, and another attends the Court Chancery.
2. In a company, battery, or troop, a noncommissioned officer next in rank above a corporal, whose duty is to instruct recruits in discipline, to form the ranks, etc.
3. A lawyer of the highest rank, answering to the doctor of the civil law; -- called also serjeant at law.
4. A title sometimes given to the servants of the sovereign; as, sergeant surgeon, that is, a servant, or attendant, surgeon.
5. The cobia.
Same as Sergeancy.
1. s'arjentry . In england, sergeantry is of two kinds; grand sergeantry and petit sergeantry . Grand sergeantry , is a particular kind of knight service, a tenure by which the tenant was bound to do some special honorary service to the king in person, as to carry his banner, his sword or the like, or to be his butler, his champion or other officer at his coronation, to lead his host, to be his marshal, to blow a horn when an enemy approaches, etc.
See Sergeanty.
s'argentship . The office of a sergeant.
The office of sergeant.
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