Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Holland and in the Dutch settlements in America, one of a board of magistrates corresponding nearly to associate justices of a municipal court, or to English aldermen.
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Examples
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It said, "Niet boven de stroom van de spruitjie daer de schepen haer water halen te wassen en deselve troubel te maken."
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Heer Vanderveer, the schepen, said there, too, that Dominie Curtius was not worth one of the five hundred guilders which he doth receive for our teaching.
Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know Asa Don Dickinson 1918
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When the city charter was granted, he proceeded to appoint the first schout, schepen, and burgomasters who took office under it, instead of allowing them to be elected by the citizens, though this concession was afterward wrung from him.
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'Alsoo naer bij quam dat se couden toe schieter dragen, de elcken heer onder den windt, gaven so elck hare laghe dan vinjt d'eene sijde, dan veer van d'anden sijde, hielden alsdan met haer schepen voor den vindt tal dat se weer claer waren, dan wast alsvooren met cannoneren van de heele lagh en in sonderheijt op mijn onderhebbende schip vier gaven van meeninge masten aft stengen overboort to schieten.'
Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816 Publications Of The Navy Records Society Vol. XXIX. 1888
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Hare E. goetgevonden ende geconsenteert hebben, mede tgevolgh van de andere provincien bij zoeverre datter eenige coopluijden aventuriers bij compagnie ofte anderssine de voerscreven reijse op heure costen ende risique, zonder te schepen ende tgelt van den lande, zonde begeren te verzoeken, dat men dezelve aventuriers de reijse gevonden ende gedaen hebbende, daervan brengende goet ende geloofflijck beschijt, tot haer luijder wedercomste, zal vereeren mette somme van vijff en twintich duysent gulden eens.
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866
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He tore the letter in a thousand pieces -- threw it in the face of the nearest burgomaster -- broke his pipe over the head of the next -- hurled his spitting-box at an unlucky schepen, who was just retreating out at the door; and finally prorogued the whole meeting _sine die_, by kicking them downstairs with his wooden leg.
Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete Washington Irving 1821
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a fat little schepen, who actually died of suffocation in an unsuccessful effort to force a laugh at one of burgermeester Van Zandt's best jokes.
Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete Washington Irving 1821
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