[f. ENSIGN sb. + -CY (cf. captaincy).] The rank or position of an ensign in the army.

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1767.  Hugh Kelly, etc. Babler, II. 166. A paltry little ensigncy.

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1771.  Smollett, Humph. Cl. (1815), 227. I purchased an ensigncy.

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1800.  Wellington, in Gurw., Disp., I. 239. Recommended for the first vacant ensigncy in the 33rd regiment.

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1860.  J. P. Kennedy, Quodlibet, xvii. 227. Accepting an ensigncy from the hands of Washington.

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