cornetcy

British  

/ ˈkɔːnɪtsɪ /

noun

1. obsolete the commission or rank of a cornet

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Example Sentences

This rule had been broken in the last reign when, in 1733, two officers lost their commands and, in 1735, Pitt his cornetcy for acting with the opposition.

From The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration by Poole, Reginald Lane

He was sent to Eton and to Trinity College, and a cornetcy was bought for him in the Grenadier Guards.

From The Squire's Daughter Being the First Book in the Chronicles of the Clintons by Marshall, Archibald

Mrs. H—— became very desirous of procuring for her eldest son a cornetcy in the regiment once commanded by his father; as she was now too poor to purchase, the matter required management and negotiation.

From The Lumley Autograph by Cooper, Susan Fenimore

So they bought Mr. Ferdinand Fitzroy a cornetcy in the —— regiment of dragoons.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 340, Supplementary Number (1828) by Various

In 1794 he was gazetted to a cornetcy in the Tenth Hussars, the gift of its colonel the Prince of Wales.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 by Various