Definition of "mandarinship" []

• The office, authority, or rank of mandarin. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Pountsin-hia (thus he was called) obtained for himself a mandarinship of the fifth rank; for his son John he secured even more, for Father Schall regularly adopted him as his grandson, and the emperor Shun-chi granted many weighty favours to this "adopted grandson" of the missionary whom he loved."