Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The office of a butler.
Wiktionary
- n. The rank or office of a butler.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The office of a butler.
Etymologies
- butler + -ship (Wiktionary)
Examples
“And he restored the chief butler unto his butlership again; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand: but he hanged the chief baker: as Joseph had interpreted to them.”
“And he restored the chief butler unto his butlership again; and he gave the cup into”
“In England, as superintendent of the importation of wine, a duty was payable to him (see BUTLERAGE AND PRISAGE); the butlership of Ireland,”
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
“Henri, who before Alice conferred a full-fledged butlership upon him in his old age was since his youth a stage-carpenter at the Théâtre”
“For once, and once only, in the long course of his butlership did the placid and unmoved calm of his manner entirely desert Jessop.”
“And he restored the chief butler unto his butlership again; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand:”
“Already before this war began, he had come hither in the service of France to study the progress of the growing discontent; and now he was here again an American major-general, led partly by the ambition of rank, partly by the thirst of distinction, but much, too, by a certain restlessness of nature, and longing for excitement and action, not to be wondered at in one who had fought his way up from a butlership to a barony.”
“And it came to pass on the third day, Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a banquet for his courtiers, and he lifted up the head of the chief of the butlers and the head of the chief of the bakers amongst his courtiers; namely, he restored the chief of the butlers to his butlership, so that he again placed the cup in Pharaoh's hand; but the chief of the bakers he hanged, as Joseph had interpreted for them.”
“01: 040: 021 And he restored the chief butler unto his butlership again; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand:”
“21 And he restored the chief butler unto his butlership again; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand: 22 But he hanged the chief baker: as Joseph had interpreted to them.”
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy)
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