| 释义 |
trithing, thrithing|ˈtraɪðɪŋ|, |ˈθraɪðɪŋ|
Forms: 3 triting, 3–4, 8–9 trithing, 7 -e, 8 triding; 4 thrythyng, 7–8 thrithing: see also riding n.
[Late OE. *þriðing, *þriding, ad. ON. þriðjung-r ‘thirding’, third part. The form thrithing was still known to the 17th c. legal writers; but trithing is also found in early times, and in modern legal and historical works. The form *þriding or *thriding lost its initial after east, west, and north, as in 13th c. Northredyng, later North Riding.]
1. = riding n. Now only Hist. Also in Comb. trithing-reeve = trithinger: see below.
[a1150Law Edw. Conf. c. 31 Erant etiam alie potestates super wapentagiis, quas trehingas uocabant, scilicet super terciam partem prouincie. Et qui super ipsam dominabantur, uocabantur þrehinggrefes [v.r. trehingreues], ad quos deferebantur cause que non poterant diffiniri in wapentagiis. ]c1290Fleta ii. lxi. §23 Sciendum [est] quod aliæ potestates erant super wapentakia, quæ tritinga dicebantur, eo quod erat tertia pars provinciæ; qui vero super eos dominabantur, trithingreves vocabantur, quibus differebantur causæ quæ non wapentakiis poterint diffiniri in Schiram. 1295–6Trithing [see riding n. 1]. 1313–14Eyre of Kent (1910) I. 32 De wapentagiis & Trithingis positis ad firmam. 1333York Memo. Bk. (Surtees) I. 144 Artificiariorum in tribus trithingis infra comitatum Ebor. 1593Norden Spec. Brit., M'sex i. 7 Yorkeshire..is diuided into Rydings, which may be also called ðriþingas, all which parts conteine in them certain hundreds in euerie of which was conteined ten teoþunges, of us called Tithings, conteining ten men, whereof it was also called tienmentale, a colledge or corporation of ten men. 1701Cowell's Interpr., Thrithing-Reve, the third part of a County, or three or more Hundreds or Wapentachs, were called a Triding or Trithing; such sort of Portions are the Laths in Kent, the Rapes in Sussex, and the Ridings in Yorkshire. And those who govern'd these Trithings, were thereupon called Trithing-Reves, before whom were brought all Causes that could not be determined in the Wapentakes, or Hundreds. 1747Carte Hist. Eng. I. 309 Some mention another subdivision of counties into three portions called thence trithings (corruptly ridings). 1765Blackstone Comm. I. Introd. iv. 116 Where a county is divided into three of these intermediate jurisdictions, they are called trithings, which were antiently governed by a trithing-reeve. 1874Stubbs Const. Hist. I. v. 100 note, In the trithing he sees the threefold division of the land allotted to the Norse odallers.
2. Division into three parts, tripartition. rare—1.
1879Haigh in Yorks. Arch. Jrnl. V. 205 The distinct trithing of two of the divisions [in a dial] is evidence of knowledge of the complete Hindu system.
Hence † ˈtrithinger, ˈthrithinger, the governor of a trithing.
1314–15Rolls of Parlt. I. 291/2 Viscountes, Thrythyngers, & autres Baillifs [de Counte de Nicole]. |