vice-admiral
noun
a naval officer next in rank below an admiral.
vice-admiralty
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a word derived from
vice admiral.
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a word derived from
vice-admiral.
vice-admiralnouna naval officer next in rank below an admiral.
Example Sentences
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Special vice-admiralty courts, which did not use juries, tried all violations of the Navigation Acts, so colonial lawbreakers could not count on sympathetic neighbors to protect them from convictions.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
Violators still faced vice-admiralty courts, without juries, and could lose their ships and cargoes if convicted.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
Instead of backing down, the ministry raised more fears by moving frontier troops to the seaports, supposedly to cut costs, while Parliament strengthened the notorious vice-admiralty courts and created a centralized customs office for America.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
The administrative and enforcement provisions under the Townshend Acts—the American Board of Customs Commissioners and the vice-admiralty courts—remained in place.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 30, 2014
It claims the fore-shore unless specially granted by charter otherwise, and the court of vice-admiralty has jurisdiction as to flotsam and jetsam on the fore-shore.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
