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great seal

NOUN
  1. the principal seal of a government, symbolizing authority or sovereignty

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  • Most noticeable, and giving name to the type, was the change of the eagle to the outstretched wing, heraldic style copied from the Great Seal of the United States. Draped Bust Half Dime, Heraldic Eagle, 1800-1805 : Coin Guide
  • There you are with Daddy where the President was describing the Great Seal...
  • John Williams, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and Archbishop of York, was the son of Edmund Williams of Aber-Conway, Caernarvonshire, at which place he was born on the 25th of March 1582. English Book Collectors
  • In that year the chancery clerks began to keep copies, on rolls of parchment, of most of the letters - and certainly of all the important ones - sent out under the great seal.
  • We nodded, and he handed us our pink and blue marriage certificate, stamped with the Great Seal of the State of California.
  • The Great Seal was for some time in commission, from the difficulty of finding a chancellor.
  • At the revocation itself, not less than half a million escaped from bigoted France to Holland, Germany, and England; and to those in the latter country, Charles II., then on the British throne, granted letters of denization under the great seal, and Parliament relieved them from 'importation duties and passport fees.' The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
  • Stuarts was attended with the return of the Jews into Great Britain; and that Lord Chancellor Clarendon granted to many of them letters of denization under the great seal. Notes and Queries, Number 32, June 8, 1850
  • It was passed under the Great Seal on the 10th of June 1546, and it cited them to compear before the Parliament on the 30th of July, within the City of Edinburgh. The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)
  • Since the great seal was heavy, the practice developed of employing a privy seal and later a signet.
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