LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR

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• LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR (noun)
  The noun LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR has 1 sense:

1. the highest officer of the Crown who is head of the judiciary and who presides in the House of Lords

  Familiarity information: LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR used as a noun is very rare.

• LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The highest officer of the Crown who is head of the judiciary and who presides in the House of Lords

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Lord Chancellor; Lord High Chancellor

Hypernyms ("Lord High Chancellor" is a kind of...):

cabinet minister (a person who is a member of the cabinet)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

 Context examples 

I could heartily wish a law was enacted, that every traveller, before he were permitted to publish his voyages, should be obliged to make oath before the Lord High Chancellor, that all he intended to print was absolutely true to the best of his knowledge; for then the world would no longer be deceived, as it usually is, while some writers, to make their works pass the better upon the public, impose the grossest falsities on the unwary reader.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)