sergeancy

English

Etymology

From Middle English sergeancie, from Anglo-Norman serjancie and Medieval Latin serjantia, sergantia. Compare sergeanty.

Noun

sergeancy (plural sergeancies)

1. The rank or office of a sergeant; sergeantship.

Alternative forms

• sergeantcy
• serjeancy

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sergeancy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)