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chancery

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chancery /ˈtʃænsəri/ Brit /ˈtʃɑːnsəri/ noun
chancery
/ˈtʃænsəri/ Brit /ˈtʃɑːnsəri/
noun
Learner's definition of CHANCERY
[singular]
: a government office where public documents are kept公共档案馆;公共档案室
: a type of court in the U.S.(美国)衡平法院
Chancery : a part of the High Court in England and Wales大法官法庭(英格兰、威尔士的高等法院的一个分庭)
: the office of a group of people who represent their country in a foreign country : the office of an embassy大使馆办事处
BNC: 12774 COCA: 28017

chancery

noun

chan·​cery ˈchan(t)-sə-rē How to pronounce chancery (audio)
ˈchan(t)s-rē
plural chanceries
1
: a record office for public archives or those of ecclesiastical, legal, or diplomatic proceedings
2
a
capitalized : a high court of equity in England and Wales with common-law functions and jurisdiction over causes in equity
b
: a court of equity in the American judicial system
c
: the principles and practice of judicial equity
3
a
: a chancellor's court or office or the building in which it is located
b
: the office in which the business of a Roman Catholic diocese is transacted and recorded
c
: the office of an embassy : chancellery sense 3
Phrases
in chancery
1
: in litigation in a court of chancery
also : under the superintendence of the lord chancellor
a ward in chancery
2
: in a hopeless predicament

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Eventually this function devolved to judicial bodies called chancery courts. Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 8 Sep. 2022 The company is asking a Nashville chancery judge for permission to move the remains, which include skeletal pieces and thin wood fragments thought to be from coffins, to the adjacent, 200-year-old Nashville City Cemetery. Jonathan Mattise, ajc, 13 Aug. 2022 Its chancery court judges are business-law experts who hear cases on a fast-track basis. Jef Feeley, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2022 The company is asking a Nashville chancery judge for permission to move the remains, which include skeletal pieces and thin wood fragments thought to be from coffins, to the adjacent, 200-year-old Nashville City Cemetery. Jonathan Mattise, ajc, 13 Aug. 2022 The company is asking a Nashville chancery judge for permission to move the remains, which include skeletal pieces and thin wood fragments thought to be from coffins, to the adjacent, 200-year-old Nashville City Cemetery. Jonathan Mattise, al, 13 Aug. 2022 Weakland had not lived in the United States in a decade, and had no understanding of how a diocese or chancery office worked. Annysa Johnson, Journal Sentinel, 22 Aug. 2022 The company is asking a Nashville chancery judge for permission to move the remains, which include skeletal pieces and thin wood fragments thought to be from coffins, to the adjacent, 200-year-old Nashville City Cemetery. CBS News, 16 Aug. 2022 Enlarge / Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick of the Delaware Court of Chancery, seated in the middle and surrounded by the court's vice chancellors and masters in chancery. Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 15 July 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

Middle English chancerie, alteration of chancelerie chancellery, from Anglo-French, from chanceler

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2a

Time Traveler
The first known use of chancery was in the 14th century
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