seniories

Noun

seniory (countable and uncountable, plural seniories)

1. (obsolete) Position as lord, lordship; primacy.
   • Beholde where is nowe the glorye of kynge assurey: whiche behelde vnder his seignorie and dominacion: the nombre of .xxvi. prouincisc. 1506, Margaret Beaufort (translator), The mirroure of golde for the synfull soule by Denis the Carthusian, London: Richard Pynson, “Of the vayne Ioye might dignite honours and riches of the...
2. (obsolete) The territory of a lord, dominion.
   • […] Charles kynge of Fraunce surnamed the great, toke Desiderius laste kinge of Lombardes prisoner and annexed his seniory to the dominion of Fraunce.1565, Arthur Golding, “To the Reader”, in The Eight Bookes of Caius Iulius Cæsar, London: William Seres
3. (obsolete) Collectively, the lords of a region.
   • […] if any man bring a letter vnto him, hee may not open it, but in the presence of the Seigniorie, and they are to see it first, which being read, perhaps they will deliuer it to him, perhaps not.1599, Laurence Aldersey, “The first voyage or iourney, made by Master Laurence Aldersey, Marchant of London, to the Cities of Ierusalem, and Tripolis, &c. In the yeere 1581”, in Richard Hakluyt...