Admiralty Definition

ădmər-əl-tē
admiralties
noun
A court exercising jurisdiction over all maritime cases.
American Heritage
The rank, position, or authority of an admiral.
Webster's New World
Maritime law.
American Heritage
The governmental department or officials in charge of naval affairs, as in England.
Webster's New World
The department of the British government that once had control over all naval affairs.
American Heritage

Other Word Forms of Admiralty

Noun

Singular:
admiralty
Plural:
admiralties

Origin of Admiralty

  • From French amirauté, for an older amiralté (“office of admiral”), from Late Latin admiralitas. See admiral

    From Wiktionary

Admiralty Sentence Examples

  • A change at the Admiralty was imperative.

  • He held many high offices during the reigns of Elizabeth and James I., including a judgeship of the admiralty court (1584), a mastership in chancery (1588), a mastership of the court of requests (1595), chancellor and under treasurer of the exchequer (1606).

  • He began, as was to be expected in his father's son, by supporting the court; and in 1770, when only twenty-one, he was appointed a junior lord of the admiralty with Lord North.

  • On the Dutch side much damage had to be repaired, and their complicated administration, by five independent admiralty boards, rendered rapid work impossible.

  • Richard, L'Oceanographie (Paris, 1907); List of Oceanic Depths and Serial Temperature Observations, received at the Admiralty in the year 1888 (et seq.) from H.M.

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