释义 |
tribeship|ˈtraɪbʃɪp| [f. as prec. + -ship.] The condition or position of being a tribe; the members of a tribe collectively, or their territory. free tribeship, sceptre t., the position of being a free tribe or the ‘sceptre-tribe’.
1782J. Brown Comp. View Nat. & Rev. Relig. iv. i. 291 The Sceptre Tribeship, or power of Supreme Government..is now long ago departed. 1840J. Wilson Our Israelitish Origin vi. (1865) 69 The greater part of the tribeship of Judah lay South of Jerusalem. 1862W. Barnes in Macm. Mag. Mar. 412/1 Trial by Jury seems..to have been practised by the Celtic people..in their times of free tribeship. |