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Definition of Lieger
1. n. A resident ambassador.
Definition of Lieger
1. Noun. (obsolete) A resident ambassador. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lieger
1. lidger [n -S] - See also: lidger
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lieger
Literary usage of Lieger
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Book of the Church by Robert Southey (1825)
"rant owners, so long as they might keep a lieger- book, or Terrier, by direction
thereof to find such straggling acres as belonged to them, they cared not ..."
2. The Court of King James the First by Godfrey Goodman (1839)
"Origin of lieger ambassadors.—Simplicity of the courts of our early English
Kings.—Aggrandizement, especially under Henry VIIL BUT now I come to a passage ..."
3. Origines Sacrae: Or a Rational Account of the Grounds of Natural and by Edward Stillingfleet (1817)
"The two Sorts of Prophets among the Jews, lieger and extraordinary. Ordinary Prophets
taken out of the Schools, proved by Amos and ..."
4. Walker's Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English by John Walker (1823)
"a high building, nt the top of which lights are hung t« guide ship? at sea [cheerfully
lieger, lee'jur. ia resident ambassador Lieu, 1ft. s. place, ..."
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