Citations:doge

Noun: "chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa"

 * 1797, John Adams, A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States, page 62
 * In the thirteenth century, a new method of appointing the doge, by the famous ballot of Venice, a complicated mixture of choice and chance, was adopted.
 * 1843, Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), Penny Cyclopaedia, Vols. 25-26, "Venice", page 236
 * About A.D. 1094, under the doge Vitale Faliero, was established a supreme court of justice for the city of Venice, called 'Judges of the Palace,' and thus was taken from the doge the judicial power in appeal which he formerly exercised.
 * 1982, John Julius Norwich, A History of Venice, chapter 34, page 346
 * This reply was one of the first important pronouncements to be made by Antonio Grimani, who on 6 July had been elected seventy-fourth Doge of Venice in succession to Leonardo Loredan.
 * 2008, Laurence Bergreen, Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu, page 19
 * In 1268, when Marco was fourteen, the celebration surrounding the installation of the new doge, Lorenzo Tiepolo, outdid even the annual rite of marriage to the sea.

Noun: "chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa"

 * 1833, Julie de Quérangal, Philippe de Morvelle, Revue des Deux Mondes, T.2,4
 * Non pas, non pas, cria-t-on de tous côtés ; il y a encore Venise. - Venise la reine des mers ! - Le lion de Saint-Marc ! - Le Bucentaure ! - Le doge ! - Quel homme qu'un doge !