Also 6 edileshippe, -shyp. [f. ÆDILE + -SHIP.] The office of an ædile; also, the duration of his term of office.
1541. Paynell, Catiline, vii. 12. Cicero … also made thre playes in the tyme of his edileshyp.
1601. Holland, Pliny (1634), II. 563. The plaies exhibited by him in his Ædileship.
1840. Arnold, Rome, II. 60. The two Scipios … have their ædileships as well as their censorships and consulships recorded.
