vichaunceller

English

Noun

vichaunceller

  1. Obsolete form of vice-chancellor.
    • 1854, James Heywood, Thomas Wright, Cambridge University Transactions During the Puritan Controversies of the 16th and 17th Centuries, volume 1, Bohn, page 166:
      [1574] My duty in most humble wise remembred unto your honour. Whereas it hath pleased allmyghtie God that I should be chosen this yere the vichaunceller of the Universitie, whereof your honour is most worthie head and singuler patrone, I take it my most bounden dewty to enforme your honour of the state thereof, especially in this tyme of sicknes, knowinge the singuler care the which your honour do bear to the good government and well doinge of the said Universitie.

References

  • Oxford English Dictionary‎[1], 1989, page 600
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