Chancellery Definition

chansələrē, chanslərē
chancelleries, chancellories
noun
The rank or position of a chancellor.
Webster's New World
The office or department of a chancellor.
American Heritage
A chancellor's office or the building that houses it.
Webster's New World
The office of an embassy or consulate.
Webster's New World

Chancery.

Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Chancellery

Noun

Singular:
chancellery
Plural:
chancelleries

Origin of Chancellery

  • Middle English chancelrie from Old French chancelerie from chancelier chancellor chancellor

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Chancellery Sentence Examples

  • The duchy received a constitution of its own, and was governed for the elector by a marshal (Landmarschall, after 1480 Landdrost) who was also stadtholder, and presided over the Westphalian chancellery.

  • He sought to form the most intimate relations with the German Empire, but insisted on the independence of the Habsburg Monarchy, and energetically repulsed all efforts on the part of the German chancellery to set limits to that independence.

  • On leaving college, he entered the royal aulic chancellery, and in 1832 was appointed secretary of the royal stadtholder at Buda.

  • In 1864 he entered the chancellery of the minister for foreign affairs at St Petersburg, and was soon afterwards attached to the Russian legation at Stuttgart, where he attracted the notice of Queen Olga of Wurttemberg.

  • Inscriptions there from the third century BC were written in good Persian chancellery Aramaic.

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