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Definition of: chancery

(chansər·ē, chän-) noun plural ·cer·ies
1. In the United States, a court of equity, as distinguished from a common–law court.
2. Brit. Previously to 1873, the court presided over by the Lord High Chancellor of England, the highest court next to the House of Lords; since the Judicature Act of 1873, one of the five divisions of the High Court of Justice.
3. A court of records; archives.
4. A chancellery.
5. The business and legal offices of a Roman Catholic diocese or archdiocese.
6. A wrestling hold.
—in chancery

1. Pending in a court of chancery; also, under the supervision of the Lord Chancellor.
2. In a hopeless predicament.
3. In boxing, said of the head caught and held under the arm of an opponent. [<OF chancellerie <chancelier. See CHANCELLOR.]

Most often used phrases:

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royal chancery
papal chancery
new chancery
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diocesan chancery
chancery hand
imperial chancery
apostolic chancery
chancery office

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