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Definition of Ensigncies
1. ensigncy [n] - See also: ensigncy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ensigncies
Literary usage of Ensigncies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Parliamentary Register: Or an Impartial Report of the Debates that Have by Great Britain Parliament, Great Britain Parliament, 1802-1803, 1802-1803 Parliament, Great Britain (1809)
"State whether the Commander in Chief has hot been in the habit of .attending to
recommendations by colonels of regiments for ensigncies in their particular ..."
2. Supplementary Despatches and Memoranda of Field Marshal Arthur, Duke of by Arthur Richard Wellesley Wellington (1860)
"Three more ensigncies vacant. 34th Regiment. Lieutenant S. Dickens to be Captain
vice Gibbous, killed in action. Ensign J. Sullivan to be Lieutenant vice ..."
3. Papers of the Historical Society of Delaware by Historical Society of Delaware (1887)
"Ordered, That Mr. Conwell deliver the same to the House of Assembly, and return
the papers recommending Stephen Mc- William for one of the vacant ensigncies ..."
4. The Viceroy's Post-bag: Correspondence, Hitherto Unpublished, of the Earl of by Michael MacDonagh (1904)
"I sincerely hope that the Duke of York may see the propriety of leaving to the
Lord Lieutenant the power of recommending to ensigncies and ..."
5. Memoirs and Correspondence of Viscount Castlereagh, Second Marquess of by Robert Stewart Castlereagh (1851)
"ensigncies in the line, in the usual proportion, according to the quota furnished,
to be placed at the recommendation of the respective Colonels of Militia. ..."
6. Correspondence of Charles, First Marquis Cornwallis by Charles Cornwallis Cornwallis (1859)
"... I wrote to some persons who had before applied to me to get them ensigncies,
to say that I now hoped to have an opportunity of giving them commissions. ..."
7. Annals of British Legislation: Being a Classified and Analysed Summary of edited by Leone Levi (1861)
"Assuming, therefore, that the 2825 first commissions, given away in six years
and a half, were all ensigncies only, their money value amounts to the sum of ..."
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