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WAYWOODE

Volume 18 · 107 words · 1797 Edition

is properly a title given the governors of the chief places in the dominions of the czar of Muscovy. The palatines, or governors of provinces in Poland, also bear the quality of waywoode, or waywooder. The Poles likewise call the princes of Wallachia and Moldavia waywooders; as esteeming them no other than on the foot of governors; pretending that Wallachia and Moldavia are provinces of Poland. Everywhere else they are called bojadores. Du Cange says, that the name waywoode is used in Dalmatia, Croatia, and Hungary, for a general of an army: and Leucelavus, in his Pandects of Turkey, tells us, it usually signifies captain or commander.