directour

Inglés

directour
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Etimología 1

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Sustantivo

directour ¦ plural: directours

1

Grafía obsoleta de  director.

• Ejemplo: 

  Hence it is , that all things created are commanded to praiſe God their Creatour and Directour : as, Praiſe him all yee his Angels : praiſe him Sunne and Moone,all bright Starres: heauens of heauens,for he hath eſtabliſhed them for euer & euer.Sir Walter Raleigh. The History of the World. 1614.

• Ejemplo: 

  That the Impreſſion was made with Monſieur de Meaux’s Knowledge , if not by his expreſs Order, whoever ſhall conſider the circumſtances of Monſieur Cramoiſy who printed it , either as a Perſon of his Reputation and Eſtate ; or as Directour of the King’s Imprimerie ; or finally as Monſieur de Meaux’s own Bookſeller ; will hardly believe that he would ſo far affront a Biſhop of his Church, and one eſpecially of Monſieur de Meaux’s intereſt and authority at that time at Court ; as to make a ſurreptitious Edition of a Book, which he might have had the Author’s leave to publiſh only for the asking.William Wake. A Defence of the Exposition of the Doctrine of the Church of England. 1686.

• Ejemplo: 

  In his Place was ſubſtituted Sir John Forteſcue, an upright man, excellently well learned in Greek and Latine, who was a long time Directour to the Queen in her Study of the Liberal Arts and Maſter of her Wardrobe, and one that gave me Light in ſeveral things as I was writing this Hiſtory.William Camden. The History of the Most Renowned and Victorious Princess Elizabeth Late Queen of England ; Containing All the Most Important and Remarkable Passages of State, Both at Home and Abroad (so Far as They Were Linked with English Affairs) During Her Long and Properous Reign. Written by William Camden,... The Fourth Edition, Revised and Compared with the Original, Whereby Many Gross Faults are Amended, Several Periods Before Omitted are Added in Their Due Places,... with a New Alphabetical Index of All the Principal Things Contained in the History. 1688.