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alderman (s.xiii2)
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alderman (s.xiii2)

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aldermaune,  aldirman,  aldreman,  aldremanne,  altherman,  auderman,  audreman  (adermain  Anon Chr2 114 ),
pl. aldermans,  aldermen  (audremantz  Rot Parl1 i 446)  
  FEW:  alderman 2 15/i,12a Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  alderman 8,71c TL: ∅ DEAF:  alderman  DMF:  alderman  TLF:  alderman  OED:  alderman n.  MED:  alder-man n.  DMLBS:  aldermannus 60a
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statusalderman, official who is a member of the ruling body of a city or borough, etc.: 
( MS: s.xiii2 )  consul: (D) gallice aldreman  TLL ii 21
( 1300 )  par assent du meire et des aldermans  Lib Cust 122
( 1310 )  au meire et as althermans […] de la dite citee  Ann Lond 172.14
( 1406-07 )  eux accusant devant Richard de Whityngtoun, adonques meire de Loundres, vicecomptes et aldermans de Loundres  Goldsmiths 322
( 1418-19 ) Espenses faitz pur defence faire envers les vadletz de lour supplicacioun direct as mair et aldirmans  Mch Tayl Accs2 279 (6 Henry V)
♦occupationchief officer of a gild: 
( c.1300 )  qe le alderman seit cheveteyn de la vile et de la gilde en vile  Oak Book i 60
♦statusmayor: 
( 1327 )  grantoms qe chescune manere de taillage fait par le alderman pur profit de la ville seit mys e assis par les burgeys  PINCHBECK ii 29
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