Also 6 umpeere-, 6–7 umpier- [f. UMPIRE sb.] The office of umpire, or the discharge of this; umpirage.
1565. Harding, Confut. Apol., I. ix. 31. We refuse not tharbitrement and vmpireship of the holy ghost.
1567. Jewel, Def. Apol., 65. Ye saie, ye refuse not the Umpeereship, and iudgemente of the Holy Ghoste.
1613. Jackson, Creed, II. xxvii. § 4. 431. Tyrannicall claime of soueraigntie, and imperiall vmpiership over all other Churches.
1819. Moore, Mem. (1853), II. 264. I … was proceeding to talk to him about our joint umpireship on Byron’s poem.
1869. Daily News, 26 May. He withdrew from the umpireship of a dog show because he objected to the admission of mutilated dogs.
