Forms: α. 6 voy-, voiuoda, voivoda. β. 7 uoiuod, 7, 9 voyvode, 9 voivode. γ. 9 woivode, -wode, woywod. [ad. Bulg. and Serb. vojvoda, Czech. vojevoda, Pol. wojewoda, Russ. voevoda, whence also Roum. voevoda, -vod, mod.L. voivoda, mod.Gr. βοεβόδα(ς.] = VAIVODE.

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  α.  1570.  in Hakluyt, Voy. (1599), I. 401. When we should haue deliuered him with the rest of his felowes vnto the Voiuodaes officers. Ibid. Kneze Yoriue your Maiesties Voiuoda at Plasco. Ibid. (1599), II. I. 198. Voyuoda of Bogdania, & Valachia.

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  β.  1614.  Selden, Titles Honor, 249. That of Vaiuod or Uoiuod, vsd in other parts of the Eastern Europe, being, I think, a Slauonig, or Windish word.

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1686.  W. Hedges, Diary (Hakl. Soc.), I. 232. I went to visit and present ye Voyvode & Musellim of Diarbikeer.

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1833.  R. Pinkerton, Russia, 111. Now but an insignificant-looking place, though formerly the residence of a Voivod.

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1869.  Tozer, Highl. Turkey, I. 141. The protectorate … passed into the hands of the Hospodars or Voyvodes of Wallachia and Moldavia.

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1884.  W. Carr, Montenegro, 22. By repeated efforts the voivode maintains with difficulty a position on the coast.

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  γ.  1847.  Sarah Austin, Ranke’s Hist. Ref., III. 31. He encouraged Francis I. to keep alive the agitation in Germany,… and to support the Woiwode of Transylvania.

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1847.  Mrs. A. Kerr, trans. Ranke’s Hist. Servia, xvi. 303. Amongst those executed before Belgrade were venerable Senators … and aged and renowned Woiwodes.

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1868.  Daily Tel., 1 Sept. To be prince of its park, lord of its lake, ruler of its river, and woiwode of its woods.

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  attrib.  1888.  E. Gerald, Land beyond Forest, xxxiii. II. 84. Only such Tziganes are supposed to be eligible as are descended from a Woywod family.

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