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Lord High Chancellor

British  

noun

  1. another name for the Lord Chancellor

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“Try and make me, ’’said the Lord High Chancellor. while/wile.

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Fortesque, the Lord High Chancellor of England under Henry VI., king a century after the Thirteenth, has this to say with regard to the legal and economic conditions in England in his time.

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I look at you as my Lord High Chancellor in Natural Science, and therefore I request you, after you have finished, just to re-run over the heads in the recapitulation-part of the last chapter.

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The act of submission above-mentioned might, however, for reasons that may easily be divined, be more laudable in a young man of nineteen, than in a Lord High Chancellor of England.

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A bunch of seals, each about the size of that peculiar to the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, dangled from his fob.

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