Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See intendancy, intendant.
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Examples
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Mongolia which is within the jurisdiction of South Manchuria and the Jehol intendency, China agrees to three.
The Fight for the Republic in China Bertram Lenox Simpson 1903
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On the next night they reached Montreal and were lodged at the intendency, the official residence of the hospitable Bigot.
Montcalm and Wolfe Francis Parkman 1858
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Augur, with the intendency of religious rites, became defiled by touching the solemnities of the dead. "
The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola Caius Cornelius Tacitus
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