[f. COLONEL, after lieutenancy, etc.: see -CY.] The post, rank or commission of colonel.
1797. in Nicolas, Disp. Nelson (1845), II. 446. Your good father tells me you are in great hopes of the Lieutenant-Colonelcy.
1864. Lowell, Fireside Trav., 68. He … might not accept a colonelcy of filibusters.
1876. Green, Short Hist., ix. 689. The colonelcy of the Royal Life Guards.
