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▪ I. vill|vɪl|
Also 6–8 (9) ville.
[a. AF. vill, vile, OF. vile, vylle, ville farm, country-house, village, collection of villages around a city (mod.F. ville town):—L. villa: see villa n.]
1. Law and Hist. A territorial unit or division under the feudal system, consisting of a number of houses or buildings with their adjacent lands, more or less contiguous and having a common organization; corresponding to the Anglo-Saxon tithing and to the modern township or civil parish.
1596Bacon Maxims Com. Law iii. (1630) 14 If..part of the ville is his severall, and part his waste and common. a1625Sir H. Finch Law (1636) 261 A plea of land which is for land or other such things in demesne..must alwayes bee brought in a ville, or place knowne out of any ville. And not in a hamlet which is parcell of a vill. 1672Manley Cowell's Interpr., Vill,..is sometimes taken for a Mannor, and sometimes for a Parish, or part of it. a1676Hale Prim. Orig. Man. (1677) 235 There are very many more Vills and Hamlets now than there were then, and very few Villages, Towns or Parishes then, which continue not to this Day. 1721Act Parlt. in Lond. Gaz. No. 5927/6 Any Parish, Township, Vill, or Extraparochial Place. 1768Blackstone Comm. IV. 291 The party raising it must acquaint the constable of the vill,..and thereupon the constable is to search his own town, and raise all the neighbouring vills. 1799E. Hasted Hist. Canterbury 106 This borough [i.e. Stablegate]..was some time past erected into a ville, in order to maintain its own poor. 1839Stonehouse Axholme 316 One or two small houses have been built here, but they are hardly sufficient to constitute a hamlet or vill. 1874Stubbs Const. Hist. I. iii. 54 The social organisation of the vill may be identical perhaps with that of the mark. 1891Atkinson Moorland Par. (ed. 2) 87 If..there were more than one [field] within the vill.
2. poet. A village.
a1700Ken Hymnotheo Poet. Wks. 1721 III. 383 Parochial Priests were fix'd in ev'ry Vill, Who under him should saving Truth instil. 1814Wordsw. Excurs. viii. 100 Among the tenantry of thorpe and vill, Or straggling burgh. 1821Clarke Vill. Minstr. II. 69 In every vill, at morning's earliest prime, To early-risers many a Hodge is seen. 1834Sir H. Taylor Artevelde ii. iii. ii, So in field or forest, Or in wall'd town, by stipend lured, or vill Surprised and sack'd, by turns he lived at large.
†3. A villa. Obs. rare.
1684tr. Eutropius x. 170 [Constantine] died in a publick Vill of the City Nicomedia. 1755T. Amory Mem. (1766) II. 61 He saw a vill, that seemed to him of wood, and consisted of ground-rooms. 1766― Buncle (1770) III. 203 The vill here was very odd, but a charming pretty thing. The house consisted of [etc.].
▪ II. vill
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