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Definition of Alcaide
1. Noun. The governor or commander of a Spanish or Portuguese fortress or prison. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Alcaide
1. the commander of a Spanish fortress [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alcaide
Literary usage of Alcaide
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ten Months a Captive Among Filipinos: Being a Narrative of Adventure and by Albert Sonnichsen (1901)
"The doctor told me to write an application for my transfer to the hospital,
address it to the local President, and give it to the alcaide, who would see it ..."
2. A New Dictionary of the Italian and English Languages: Based Upon that of by Giuseppe Marc' Antonio Baretti, Guglielmo Comelati (1854)
"alcaide, s. alcaide, m. governatore d'an castello ¡ giudice d'una ciita o delta
caía regale. Alcaline, a. V. alkaline. ..."
3. Old Court Life in Spain by Frances Minto Dickinson Elliot (1893)
"ness of the alcaide. If the alcaide had done his duty and put guards about, ...
Further, if the alcaide could not discover him as the living man, he, ..."
4. A Dictionary of the Portuguese and English Languages, in Two Parts ...by Antonio Vieyra, Jacinto Dias do Canto by Antonio Vieyra, Jacinto Dias do Canto (1827)
"Du Gange says, that alcaide is a sort of judge or mi nister, much the same as a
provost, ... alcaide is derived from the Arabic words, al, ie the, and, ..."
5. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the by Richard Hakluyt (1904)
"So now there remaineth in Gago alcaide ... the which will be in January next,
then returneth hither alcaide ... with all the treasure, and alcaide ..."
6. Select Reviews of Literature, and Spirit of Foreign Magazines edited by Enos Bronson (1810)
"It was, above all, to the alcaide and the guards of the prisoners that he studied to
... The alcaide had a mistress of whom he was jealous, and Zamora, ..."
7. The Commentaries of the Great Afonso Dalboquerque, Second Viceroy of India by Afonso de Albuquerque, Walter de Gray Birch (1875)
"The alcaide, anxious to come to the end of the matter, ... The representation
made by the alcaide seemed to Afonso ..."
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