captaincy
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captaincy (countable and uncountable, plural captaincies)
- The rank or status of a captain.
- The jurisdiction of a captain.
- (historical) An administrative division of the former Spanish and Portuguese colonial empires.
- Synonym: capitania
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- 1828 Juan van Halen - Narrative of Don Juan Van Halen's Imprisonment in the Dungeons of the Inquistion at Madrid
- He obtains a captaincy in the Catalonian army
- 1859, Garcilaso de la Vega, Christóbel de Acuña, Clements Robert Markham, Expeditions Into the Valley of the Amazons:
- The territory bathed by this river belongs to the captaincy of Benito Maciel the father.
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rank or status of a captain
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