Venetian ambassador, first mentioned the project to his signory November. From Wordnik.com. [Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day] Reference
The next election to the signory (governing body) favored the Medici, and Cosimo was recalled (1434). From Wordnik.com. [1405] Reference
Of these magistrates of this upper stage consists the signory. From Wordnik.com. [The Commonwealth of Oceana] Reference
Duke of Lucca, attempted the like in central Italy; but his signory perished with him. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference
But the Senate, being informed by the signory that the Archon had accepted of his dignity and office, caused. From Wordnik.com. [The Commonwealth of Oceana] Reference
"The strategus sitting with six commissioners, being councillors of the nation, are the signory of the commonwealth.". From Wordnik.com. [The Commonwealth of Oceana] Reference
The signory, with the whole right and use of that magistracy to be hereafter more fully explained, is almost purely Venetian. From Wordnik.com. [The Commonwealth of Oceana] Reference
By which word of 'dominion,' the Apostle would have us to conceive of death, as of some great lord having some large signory. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
Chigi too had instituted such search as was possible without putting the matter in the hands of the authorities, which would have brought about awkward complications with the signory of Florence. From Wordnik.com. [Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance)] Reference
The signory, seeing the urgency of the case, sent to the brotherhood, commanding them to surrender the prior, and the two Dominicans who had presented themselves in his stead to the trial by fire. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Necromancers] Reference
'If a prince of Eldorado should come, with a pedigree of lineal descent from some signory in the moon in one hand, and a ticket of good-behaviour from the nearest Independent chapel, in the other' --?. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846] Reference
For the ancients of Pisa have met for the last time; the signory of Florence plots no more; no more will any Emperor with the pride of a barbarian, the mien of a beggar or a thief, cross the Alps, or such an one as. From Wordnik.com. [Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition] Reference
The suffrage being gathered and opened before the signory, if the red box or non-sincere had above half the suffrages, the opinions shall be all cast out, for the major part of the house is not clear in the business. From Wordnik.com. [The Commonwealth of Oceana] Reference
"But the strategus with the six commissioners is the signory of this commonwealth, having right of session and suffrage in every council of the Senate, and power either jointly or severally to propose in all or any of them.". From Wordnik.com. [The Commonwealth of Oceana] Reference
Each signory, barony and colony consisted of 12,000 acres, and it was provided that after a certain term of years the "proprietors" should not have power to alienate or make over their proprietorship, but that "it should descend unto their heirs male.". From Wordnik.com. [The Great South; A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland] Reference
The rest of the ballot is conformable to that of the tribe; the censors of the house sitting at the side urn, and the youngest magistrate of the signory at the middle, the urns being placed before the throne, and prepared according to the number of the magistrates to be at that time chosen by the rules already given to the censors of the tribes. From Wordnik.com. [The Commonwealth of Oceana] Reference
The ballotins having thus gathered the suffrages, bring them before the signory, in whose presence the outward boxes being opened, they take out the inner boxes, whereof the affirmative is white, and the negative green, and pour the white in the bowl N on the right hand, which is white also, and the green into the bowl N on the left, which is also green. From Wordnik.com. [The Commonwealth of Oceana] Reference
"The quorum of a provincial council, as also of every other council or assembly in Oceana, shall in time of health consist of two parts in three of the whole number proper to that council or assembly; and in a time of sickness, of one part in three; but of the Senate there can be no quorum without three of the signory, nor of a council without two of the provosts.". From Wordnik.com. [The Commonwealth of Oceana] Reference
'If a prince of Eldorado should come, with a pedigree of lineal descent from some signory in the moon in one hand, and a ticket of good-behaviour from the nearest Independent chapel, in the other' ”?. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett]
"I will tell you what I once said in jest ..." she writes, "If a prince of El Dorado should come with a pedigree of lineal descent from some signory in the moon in one hand and a ticket of good behaviour from the nearest Independent chapel in the other!. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Browning] Reference
Walk a dun blink roundward this albutisle and you skull see how olde ye plaine of my Elters, hunfree and ours, where wone to wail whimbrel to peewee o’er the saltings, where wilby citie by law of isthmon, where by a droit of signory, icefloe was from his Inn the Byggning to whose Finishthere Punct. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
"The signory jointly or severally has right of session and suffrage in every senatorial council, and to propose either to the Senate, or any of them. From Wordnik.com. [The Commonwealth of Oceana] Reference
"The opinions being thus prepared, any magistrate of the signory, the censors, or any two of the provosts of that council, upon this occasion may assemble the Senate. From Wordnik.com. [The Commonwealth of Oceana] Reference
"Every council being adorned with a state for the signory, shall be attended by two secretaries, two doorkeepers, and two messengers-in-ordinary, and have power to command more upon emergencies, as occasion requires. From Wordnik.com. [The Commonwealth of Oceana] Reference
"The magistrates of the signory, as councillors of this commonwealth, shall take into their consideration all matters of state or of government; and, having right to propose in any council, may, any one or more of them, propose what business he or they please in that council to which it most properly belongs. From Wordnik.com. [The Commonwealth of Oceana] Reference
"And in this manner the old people of Florence ordered itself; and for more strength of the people, they ordered and began to build the palace which is behind the Badia, -- that is to say, the one which is of dressed stone, with the tower; for before there was no palace of the commune in Florence, but the signory abode sometimes in one part of the town, sometimes in another. From Wordnik.com. [Val d'Arno] Reference
The signory of Venice!. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4] Reference
We shall not find a sweeter signory. From Wordnik.com. [Aurora Leigh] Reference
The Priors form the signory as of old. From Wordnik.com. [Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots] Reference
"She was lady, by inheritance, of the signory. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 179, April 2, 1853. A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc] Reference
Venice consists of the Senate, or pregati, proposing, and sometimes resolving too, of the great Council or Assembly of the people, in whom the result is constitutively; as also of the doge, the signory, the censors, the dieci, the quazancies, and other magistrates, executing. From Wordnik.com. [The Commonwealth of Oceana] Reference
Much he watched, and little he slept; and used to say that so much time as one slept, one lost; generous to his men-at-arms, but covetous to acquire land, signory, and coin, come how it would, to furnish his enterprises and wars: in courtiers, servants of pleasure, or jocular persons, he delighted never. ". From Wordnik.com. [Val d'Arno] Reference
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