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‖ starosta|ˈstærɒstə|
Pl. starosti. Also anglicized 6 starust, 8 stahrost, 7–9 starost(e.
[Russian starosta, Polish starosta, lit. ‘elder’.]
1. In Russia, the head man of a village community.
1591G. Fletcher Russe Commw. x. 33 Besides these..there are Starusts or Aldermen for euerie seuerall companie. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 84 One family, whose chief..performs the functions of staroste, or magistrate of the village. 1799W. Tooke View Russ. Emp. I. 460 Their elders, whom they still..style Starosts. 1810E. D. Clarke Trav. Russia (1839) 37/1 Any person arriving in a town or village, must produce his [passport] to the starosta. 1833R. Pinkerton Russia 281 They..are governed by their own elders or starosti. 1901Scotsman 5 Apr. 7/2 At Nijni Novgorod..the starosta, or chief of the village artel, comes to buy the supply of material.
2. In the former kingdom of Poland, a noble holding a castle and domain bestowed by the Crown.
1670Lond. Gaz. No. 504/1 Major-General Bokumbs..has been lately killed by a Peasant, who was hired to commit the murther by a Staroste. 1827Bowring Specim. Polish Poets 137 His father was the starost of Korytnik. 1896Cosmopolitan XX. 445 She assures us that she and her sisters have the bearing ‘becoming young ladies of high station, and daughters of a Staroste’. |
