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mace
Part of speech: NounA large and heavy staff usually topped by a crown; a staff carried by or before an official as a symbol of authority; a person who bears such a staff; a kind of aromatic spice consisting of the dried covering of the nutmeg.
Usage examples "mace":- The city doctrine was, that if the House of Commons had a serjeant- at- arms, they had a serjeant- at- mace. - "Burke", John Morley.
- On the other hand, if the noble first President of the Royal Society could revisit the upper air and once more gladden his eyes with a sight of the familiar mace, he would find himself in the midst of a material civilisation more different from that of his day, than that of the seventeenth was from that of the first century. - "Autobiography and Selected Essays", Thomas Henry Huxley.
- On September 2 two of the ships, commanded by Mace Jalobert, Cartier's brother- in- law and companion of the preceding voyage, and Etienne Nouel, his nephew, were sent back to France to tell the king of what had been done, and to let him know that Roberval had not yet arrived. - "The Mariner of St. Malo: A Chronicle of the Voyages of Jacques Cartier", Stephen Leacock.