MEANING
1. The protection, support, or guiding authority provided by a person or organization.
2. A protective shield or breastplate associated with divine authority in classical mythology.
Use it for
describing work conducted under institutional sponsorship; identifying the authority protecting a project; showing that support does not necessarily mean direct ownership; describing an initiative sheltered by a larger organizationNames protective or sponsoring authority, rather than treating all institutional relationships as direct control. Writing functions: Theory / Institutional relationships, Causation / Relationships.
Words that belong together
- under the aegis of a university
- under institutional aegis
- under the aegis of the law
On the page
The archive opened under the aegis of a regional historical society.
Work conducted under the university’s aegis remained independent of its governing board.
The painted figure bore an aegis fringed with dark serpents.
An aegis lay across the statue’s chest, its patterned surface catching the torchlight.
Word forms
- Base
- aegis
Usage notes
Noun. Modern use is normally singular in under the aegis of. The rare literal count plural is aegises. Less common spelling egis is an alias, not a new entry. Register: formal. Commonness: uncommon (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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