[See -SHIP.] The position or office of tsar. Also fig.

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1851.  H. Melville, Moby-Dick, xxxiv. 164. It is a witchery of social czarship which there is no withstanding.

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1852.  Tait’s Mag., XIX. 515/1. The pretender Demetrius, who was a young Polish monk, obtained the Czarship.

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