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Definition of Mandarinate
1. n. The collective body of officials or persons of rank in China.
Definition of Mandarinate
1. Noun. The collective body of officials (mandarins) or persons of rank in historical China. ¹
2. Noun. A political form of rule by mandarins ¹
3. Noun. The status of holding a position as a mandarin. ¹
4. Noun. (figuratively) A type of government marked by excessive bureaucracy and Byzantine regulations. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mandarinate
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mandarinate
Literary usage of Mandarinate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"K'ang-hi recognized the services of the missionary by conferring on him successively
the highest degrees of the mandarinate. The liberty to preach, ..."
2. World Politics at the End of the Nineteenth Century: As Influenced by the by Paul Samuel Reinsch (1900)
"The mandarinate is democratic in its origin, being regularly recruited from the
masses of the people by a series of most rigid examinations. ..."
3. China by Harold Edward Gorst (1899)
"CHAPTER XIV A CORRUPT mandarinate A System of Sham—The Power of the
Viceroys—Administrative Divisions— Public Officials—An Admirable Theory of ..."
4. Sectarianism and Religious Persecution in China: A Page in the History of by Jan Jakob Maria Groot (1903)
"Imperial providence furnished this mandarinate with a useful manual for heresy-hunting.
In a decree of the 25th of the tenth month the emperor communicates, ..."
5. Social life of the Chinese: With Some Account of Their Religious by Justus Doolittle (1866)
"The deeply-interested caller can do no better than come to terms with the door-keeper.
Among the permanent attaches, during good behavior, to a mandarinate, ..."
6. Colonial Government: An Introduction to the Study of Colonial Institutions by Paul Samuel Reinsch, Richard Theodore Ely (1902)
"The mandarinate was reduced to an empty title, ... In both of these protectorates
the mandarinate was retained ..."
7. The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient by Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl (1899)
"To occupy a mandarinate is a fine thing," observed Lord Kow ; " but a young man
like you, can you live out there all alone ? Would it not be better that I, ..."
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