stewartry

See also: Stewartry

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English stevardry, stevartry, stewartry, equivalent to steward +‎ -ry.[1]

Noun

stewartry (countable and uncountable, plural stewartries)

  1. (countable) (Can we verify(+) this sense?) An overseer or superintendent.
    • 1799, William Tooke, A View of the Russian Empire during the Reign of Catharine II and to the close of the present Century:
      the stewartry of provisions
  2. The role or office of a steward; stewardship.
  3. (Scotland) The jurisdiction of a steward, or the lands under such jurisdiction.

References

  1. ^ “stewartry | stewardry, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “stewartry”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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