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Key-bearer. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1901, rev. 2025. Key-bearer [f. KEY sb.1 + BEARER: OE. had cǽʓbora in same sense.]

1   1.  One who bears a key or keys. (Cf. KEY sb.1 2.)

2 14[?].  Nominale, in Wr.-Wülcker, 684/9. Hic claviger, a kayberere.

3 1486.  Lichfield Gild Ord. (E.E.T.S.), 22. The foure kayberers or ther deputies.

4 1552.  Huloet, Kaye bearer or keper.

5 1778.  Bp. Lowth, Transl. Isaiah, Notes (ed. 12), 254. The priestess of Juno is said to be the key-bearer of the Goddess.

6 1846.  Ellis, Elgin Marbles, I. 120. The figure of a key-bearer.

7   2.  fig. One who is entrusted with authority symbolized by keys. Cf. KEY sb.1 4 and KEY-KEEPER 2.

8 a. 1540.  Barnes, Wks. (1573), 262/2. S. Petter … commaundeth you that you shoulde bee alonely but ministers, & keybearers of these keyes.

9 1669.  Baxter, Power Mag. & Ch. Past., II. xi. (1671), 29. Christ made these Officers the Key-bearers of his Churches.

10 1895.  Tablet, 2 Nov., 700. The Prince of the Apostles, the key-bearer of eternal life.

11   So Key-bearing sb. and a.

12 1669.  Baxter, Power Mag. & Ch. Past., II. xii. (1671), 29. This Key-bearing power (never denyed them from Christs time to this day).

13 1863.  W. Cory, Lett. & Jrnls. (1897), 93. I should have lost the respect of the key-bearing woman [= guide].

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