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admiralty
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Definition:1. The office or jurisdiction of an admiral.2. The department or officers having authority over naval affairs generally.3. The court which has jurisdiction of maritime questions and offenses.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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This led to Mr. Wopsle's (who had never been heard of before) coming in with a star and garter on, as a plenipotentiary of great power direct from the Admiralty, to say that the Swabs were all to go to prison on the spot,
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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Jonas knew for a fact that it had been purchased by the Admiralty with a view to carrying out some very hush hush experiments!
Agatha Christie. And Then There Were None. p.2 (1939)
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The honour I had of being employed in the service of his late Majesty of illustrious memory, at the time when Your Lordship presided at the Admiralty, gives me the boldness to ask your protection of the following papers.
William Dampier. A Voyage to New Holland (1699)
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An elderly female, no more young, left the building of the courts of chancery, king's bench, exchequer and common pleas, having heard in the lord chancellor's court the case in lunacy of Potterton, in the admiralty division the summons, exparte motion, of the owners of the Lady Cairns versus the owners of the barque Mona, in the court of appeal reservation of judgment in the case of Harvey versus the Ocean Accident and Guarantee Corporation.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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