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homager|ˈhɒmɪdʒə(r)|
Also 5 omager(e, homegere, homyger, 6 homagier.
[a. OF. hommager, -ier, f. hommage homage: see -er2.]
One who owes homage or fealty; one who holds lands by homage.
crown homager, the crown of a vassal king. liege homager: cf. homage n. 1 b.
a1400Arthur 133 Kynges..Þat were to hym Omager. a1529Skelton Agst. the Scottes 122 Pardy, ye were his homager And suter to his parlement. 1601Holland Pliny I. 69 The Camuni..did seruice as homagers to them. 1608D. T. Ess. Pol. & Mor. 71 They would acknowledge them⁓selves..liege-homagers for it to the Crowne of France. 1610J. Guillim Heraldry iv. i. (1660) 269 This Kind of Crown..some have given it the name of a Crown Homager. 1769De Foe's Tour Gt. Brit. (ed. 7) IV. 293 The Isle of Man..for several Generations, has belonged to Families, who have been Homagers to the Crown of England for it. 1867Freeman Norm. Conq. I. iv. 231 Before long we find him again the faithful homager of King Lewis.
b. spec. in Eng. Law, A manorial tenant.
1598Kitchin Courts Leet (1675) 7 Homagers of Court ought to enquire in this Court. c1640J. Smyth Lives Berkeleys (1883) I. 282 All of them homagers to the Castle of Berkeley. 1714Scroggs Courts-leet (ed. 3) 159 The Oath of a Stranger in the Lord's Court to the Homagers. 1889Jessopp Coming of Friars v. 225 The homagers were afraid to give a verdict against the steward.
c. fig. Cf. homage n. 3.
c1400Rom. Rose 3288 Whanne thou were maad the omager Of God of Love to hastily. 1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. i. i. 31 Thou blushest Anthony, and that blood of thine Is Cæsars homager. 1673Lady's Call. i. v. §34. 43 Interest..should render her an homager to that omnipotent power. 1877Mrs. Chapman in Ht. Martineau's Autobiog. III. 101 The newspapers were zealous heralds and homagers. |