alderman (s.xiii2)
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alderman (s.xiii2)

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[ FEW: 15/i,12a alderman 2; Gdf: ∅; GdfC: 8,71c alderman; TL: ∅; DEAF:  alderman; DMF:  alderman; TLF:  alderman; OED:  alderman n.; MED:  alder-man n.; DMLBS: 60a aldermannus ]
aldermaune,  aldirman,  aldreman,  aldremanne,  altherman,  auderman,  audreman,  adermain  114, 
pl. aldermans,  aldermen,  audremantz  i 446  
M.E.

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1statusalderman, official who is a member of the ruling body of a city or borough, etc.: 
( MS: s.xiii2 )  consul: (D) gallice aldreman  ii 21
( 1300 )  par assent du meire et des aldermans  122
( 1310 )  au meire et as althermans […] de la dite citee  172.14
( 1406-07 )  eux accusant devant Richard de Whityngtoun, adonques meire de Loundres, vicecomptes et aldermans de Loundres  322
( 1418-19 ) Espenses faitz pur defence faire envers les vadletz de lour supplicacioun direct as mair et aldirmans  279 (6 Henry V)
♦occupationchief officer of a gild: 
( c.1300 )  qe le alderman seit cheveteyn de la vile et de la gilde en vile  i 60
♦statusmayor: 
( 1327 )  grantoms qe chescune manere de taillage fait par le alderman pur profit de la ville seit mys e assis par les burgeys  ii 29
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