captaincy
nounEtymology From captain + -cy. Piecewise doublet of chieftaincy.
1
The rank or status of a captain.
2
The jurisdiction of a captain.
3
Historical An administrative division of the former Spanish and Portuguese colonial empires.
- He obtains a captaincy in the Catalonian army1828, Juan van Halen, Narrative of Don Juan Van Halen's Imprisonment in the Dungeons of the Inquistion at Madrid:
- The territory bathed by this river belongs to the captaincy of Benito Maciel the father.1859, Garcilaso de la Vega, Christóbel de Acuña, Clements Robert Markham, Expeditions Into the Valley of the Amazons:
- Derived terms
- cocaptaincy, donatary captaincy, subcaptaincy