Word Meanings - UNDERCHAMBERLAIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A deputy chamberlain of the exchequer.

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• EXCHEQUER
  1. One of the superior courts of law; -- so called from a checkered cloth, which covers, or formerly covered, the table. Note: The exchequer was a court of law and equity. In the revenue department, it had jurisdiction over the proprietary rights
• DEPUTY
  1. One appointed as the substitue of another, and empowered to act for him, in his name or his behalf; a substitute in office; a lieutenant; a representative; a delegate; a vicegerent; as, the deputy of a prince, of a sheriff, of a township, etc.
• CHAMBERLAIN
  OHG. chamerling, chamarlinc, G. kämmerling, kammer chamber (fr. L. 1. An officer or servant who has charge of a chamber or chambers. 2. An upper servant of an inn. 3. An officer having the direction and management of the private chambers of a
• CHAMBERLAINSHIP
  Office if a chamberlain.
• UNDERCHAMBERLAIN
  A deputy chamberlain of the exchequer.
• ARCHCHAMBERLAIN
  A chief chamberlain; -- an officer of the old German empire, whose office was similar to that of the great chamberlain in England.