| 释义 |
‖ stift Obs.
[G., a bishopric.]
The domain of a German prince-bishop.
1637R. Monro Exped. ii. 76 He..left the Duke of Anhalt as Stat-houlder; not only over the Towne, but also over the whole Stifft of Madeburg. 1678Phillips (ed. 4), Stift, a German word, which hath been lately used among us for the small division of a Region or Province. 1819Scott Leg. Montrose ii, I have myself commanded the whole stift of Dunklespiel on the Lower Rhine. |