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ædileship

ædileship is the archaic form of aedileship.

Meaning of aedileship

Noun

aedileship (plural aedileships)

  1. (historical) The office of an aedile.
  2. (historical) The period or duration of this office.
    • Two brothers of this name were, as we have seen, the authors of the law which threw open the offices of augur and pontifex to the commons, and afterwards in their aedileship they ornamented the city with several works of art1845, Thomas Arnold, From the Gaulish invasion to the end of the First Punic War

Forms of ædileship

pluralædileships

Questions about ædileship

What is ædileship the archaic form of?
Ædileship is the archaic form of aedileship.

Words near ædileship in the dictionary

  1. ædified
  2. ædify
  3. ædifying
  4. ædile
  5. ædiles
  6. ædileship
  7. ædileships
  8. ædility
  9. Æduan
  10. Æduans
  11. ædœology

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ædileship (page history and authors); aedileship (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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