chancellor

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  1. noun Any of various officials of high rank, especially:
  2. noun A secretary to a monarch or noble.
  3. noun Chiefly British The chief secretary of an embassy.
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  • Diplomatic immunity carried no weight in this case, as the chancellor was not posted to a U.S. mission; he received six years in prison. —  Marcia Muller - [16] A Wild and Lonely Place
  • As foreseen by Empress Frederick, with Prince Bismarck once in retirement and disgrace, and the emperor disposed to reverse the entire Bismarckian policy, it commenced to dawn upon his majesty that among other errors into which he had been led by his ex-chancellor was his own harshness and unfriendliness towards his mother. —  The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe: William II, Germany; Francis Joseph, Austria-Hungary, Volume I
  • The resoluteness of his chancellor was all that prevented him from fleeing in panic from the interview that was to come. —  The BROTHERHOOD of the HOLY SHRO
  • What we expect for the chancellor is a transparent interpretation of the mission of the Center for Near East Studies and how it may better represent all peoples of the region. —  Articles
  • Congress of the People's first deputy president Mbazima Shilowa slammed Unisa council chairperson Matthews Phosa for being mum about demands for the removal of Barney Pityana as vice-chancellor, the SABC reported on Saturday.
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  1. Middle English chaunceler, from Old French chancelier, from Late Latin cancellārius, doorkeeper, from Latin cancellī, bars, latticework; see cancel.

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  1. from Middle English chanceler, chaunceler, chaunseler (always with one l), from Old French chanceler, -lier, French chancelier = Provencal cancelier, chancellier = Catalan caceller = Old Spanish canceller, canciller, Spanish cancelario = Portuguese chanceller, cancellario = Italian cancelliere = Dutch kanselier = Middle Low German kenselere = Old High German chancilāri, chenzilāri, Middle High German kanzelære, German kanzler = Danish Swedish kansler = Icelandic kanzellari, kanselleri = Russian kantslerŭ, from Middle Latin cancellarius, a chancellor, orig. (Late Latin) an officer in charge of records, who stood at the latticed railing inclosing the judgment-seat, and acted as an intermediary between the suitors and the judge; from Latin cancelli, a latticed railing: see chancel and cancel, and cf. chancery.
 

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