Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The office, authority, or term of service of a viceroy.
- noun A district or province governed by a viceroy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The dignity, office, or jurisdiction of a viceroy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The dignity, office, or jurisdiction of a viceroy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
office orterm ofservice of aviceroy - noun The
place governed by a viceroy
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a district or province governed by a viceroy
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Examples
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But the Deccan was his responsibility; after sending him here eight years ago to overthrow Raja Jhujhar, Emperor Shah Jahan had officially given him the viceroyalty of the Deccan, and Aurangzeb had made Burhanpur his headquarters.
Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010
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But the Deccan was his responsibility; after sending him here eight years ago to overthrow Raja Jhujhar, Emperor Shah Jahan had officially given him the viceroyalty of the Deccan, and Aurangzeb had made Burhanpur his headquarters.
Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010
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BN Lima, the capital of the Peruvian viceroyalty, was initially set out in a rectangular form in which the "plaza" was displaced to the nearby Rimac river.
The "cuadricula" 2008
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Burke was born in the Christian village of Martinpur, Punjab now in Pakistan, when Edward VII was King-Emperor and a year after Lord Curzon had relinquished the viceroyalty of India.
Samuel Martin Burke obituary Reginald Massey 2010
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After the La Plata viceroyalty was established in 1776 and this city became the capital, a great many more urban planning works were undertaken.
The "cuadricula" 2008
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It alone was empowered to insure that the viceroyalty was cared for by qualified professionals; its charge was to eradicate the charlatans and casters of spells, the myriad curanderos, and most importantly, the countless unlicensed empiricos from the realm.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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The viceroyalty of New Spain, created in 1535, included under one generic title a whole range of different, vast territories, ranging from the kingdom of Guatemala to the rich mining regions of the north, which were organized around one hub: the city of Mexico.
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Mexico, capital of the viceroyalty of New Spain, was built upon the ruins of the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan, after it was destroyed by the troops of Hernán Cortés.
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Commonly, these divine members of the medical marketplace — the virgins and Christ figures that became important locally, and some, such as the Virgin of Guadalupe, throughout the viceroyalty — were the last to be appealed to in the "hierarchy of resort," an indication of desperation when other earthly measures had failed.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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But the Deccan was his responsibility; after sending him here eight years ago to overthrow Raja Jhujhar, Emperor Shah Jahan had officially given him the viceroyalty of the Deccan, and Aurangzeb had made Burhanpur his headquarters.
Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010
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