great seal in English

noun
1
a seal used for the authentication of state documents of the highest importance, held by the Secretary of State.
Originally, its holder was responsible for the monarch's personal seal (as opposed to the Great Seal of state, which is in the care of the Lord Chancellor).

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1. The Great Seal was first used publicly in 1782.

2. But the Grail cannot pass beyond the Great Seal.

3. Nicholas Bacon, born in comparatively humble circumstances, had risen to become lord keeper of the great seal.

4. It is emblazoned across the scroll and clenched in the eagle’s beak on the Great Seal of the United States.

5. The Great Seal was first designed in 1782, and has been printed on the back of the United States one-dollar bill since 1935.

6. She relied primarily on her chief advisors, Sir William Cecil, as her Secretary of State, and Sir Nicholas Bacon, as the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, for direction on the matter.

7. When designing the final version of the Great Seal, Charles Thomson (a former Latin teacher) kept the pyramid and eye for the reverse side but replaced the two mottos, using Annuit Cœptis instead of Deo Favente (and Novus Ordo Seclorum instead of Perennis).