Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One to whom or to whose decision anything is referred; a referee.
- n. An officer acting as the medium of communication with a sovereign.
- n. [Tr. Gr.
ῤεφερενδάριος. ] An official who is the medium of communication between the patriarch of Constantinople and the civil authorities. This office has existed since the sixth century. - Pertaining to or of the nature of a referendum.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete One to whose decision a cause is referred; a referee.
- n. obsolete An officer who delivered the royal answer to petitions.
- n. obsolete An officer of state charged with the duty of procuring and dispatching diplomas and decrees.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete One to whose decision a cause is referred; a referee.
- n. An officer who delivered the royal answer to petitions.
- n. Formerly, an officer of state charged with the duty of procuring and dispatching diplomas and decrees.
Etymologies
- Latin referendarius, from Latin referendus to be referred, gerundive of referre: compare French référendaire. See refer. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The officer above mentioned promised to communicate this representation to a clerk, who promised to speak about it to the referendary, who promised to mention it to his most serene highness whenever an opportunity should offer.”
“BONET was referendary or chancellor, to Sigebert III., the holy king of Austrasia; and by his zeal, religion, and justice, flourished in that kingdom under four kings.”
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
“THIS saint, nobly born in Brabant, then called Hasbain, was educated in the abbey of St. Tron, and for his great learning and virtue was made referendary, chancellor of France, and prime minister, by Charles”
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
“For in the April of the following year another commission, composed of a professor of theology, a military personage, and a magistrate of the name of John de Newton, was sent with letters to the Pope, to nine cardinals, to the referendary of the Papal court, and to three nephews of his”
“I am a referendary at the department of state in Cassel, and accordingly I soon heard of the danger to which you are exposed.”
“At an advanced age he became a priest and enjoyed the patronage of Innocent XI, who made him successively referendary Utriusque Signaturae, auditor of the”
“On entering the diplomatic service of the Holy See he was appointed by Gregory XVI successively secular prelate (1830), referendary of the superior law court, assessor of the criminal tribunal, delegate to Orvieto, Viterbo, and Macerata, canon of St. Peter's (made deacon, 1840).”
“As the office of referendary was a very honourable one, it came to be conferred frequently as a merely honorary title, so that the number of the referendaries was unduly increased; and Sixtus V was constrained, in 1586, to limit the referendaries of the Signatura of Justice to 100, and those of the”
“Rome he became abbreviator Apostolic and referendary of the Segnatura di Giustizia.”
“On his return to Italy, Julius III made him referendary of the Segnatura di Giustizia and on 1 March, 1553, appointed him”
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