Definitions
an office of archives for public or ecclesiastic records; a court of public records
Word origin
From French chancellerie, from Late Latin cancellaria, from Latin cancellarius, from Latin cancellus (“lattice”) (English chancel), from Latin cancelli (“grating, bars”), from the lattice-work that separated a section of a church or court.
Used in a sentence
“The territorial expansion of the United States thus caused no great political stir in the chanceries of Europe.”
“The Chicken himself attributed this punishment to his having had the misfortune to get into Chancery early in the proceedings, when he was severely fibbed by the Larkey one, and heavily grassed.”
“[Round] 9. This was a scientific round on both sides; Acton got away well; and also parried some tremendous blows. The latter, however, received a chancery nobber; but he contended every inch of ground till he went down.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Records office”8 letters
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