Definition of Lord chancellor

1. Noun. The highest officer of the Crown who is head of the judiciary and who presides in the House of Lords.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Lord Chancellor

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Lorain-Levi dwarfism
Lorain-Levi infantilism
Lorain-Levi syndrome
Loranthaceae
Loranthus
Loranthus europaeus
Lorca
Lord's
Lord's Day
Lord's Prayer
Lord's Resistance Army
Lord's Supper
Lord's table
Lord Britten of Aldeburgh
Lord Chancellor
Lord George Gordon Byron
Lord High Chancellor
Lord Macaulay
Lord Mayor
Lord Mayors
Lord Muck
Lord Nelson
Lord Privy Seal
Lord Rayleigh
Lord be praised
Lord love a duck
Lord of Lords
Lord of Misrule
Lord of the Manor

Literary usage of Lord chancellor

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England: From ...by John Campbell Campbell by John Campbell Campbell (1880)
"The work cited in the author/title information area of this microfiche (no. 35876) is a 13 volume set."

2. Haydn's Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information Relating to All Ages by Joseph Haydn, Benjamin Vincent (1889)
"Sir Edward Hyde, lord chancellor, afterwards created lord Hyde, and earl of Clarendon. 1667. ... Lord Henley, lord chancellor, afterwards carl of 1770. Hon. ..."

3. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1822)
"By Hie lord chancellor—The female servants in the voyage from Jaffa, ... The Lord Chancellor stated, that he could communicate it, as the result of his ..."

4. The History of the Reformation of the Church of England by Gilbert Burnet (1829)
"The first business of importance after the corona- BOOK tion was the lord chancellor's fall: who, resolving to rive himself wholly to matters of state, ..."

5. The Parliamentary Debatesby Great Britain Parliament, Thomas Curson Hansard by Great Britain Parliament, Thomas Curson Hansard (1826)
"His hon. and learned friend stated, that the lord chancellor, out of delicacy, ... At the courage which the lord chancellor displayed, he did not feel much ..."

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