corvéen.

Brit.

/kɔːˈveɪ/,

/ˈkɔːveɪ/, U.S.

/ˈkɔrˌveɪ/,

/ˌkɔrˈveɪ/

Etymology: < French corvée, in 13th cent. also corowée < Romanic corvada, coruada (in a capitulary of Charlemagne) < late Latin corrogāta: corrogāta opera requested (i.e. requisitioned) work: < Latin corrogāre, < cor- together, and intensive + rogāre to ask, request. Mediæval Latinized forms of the French were corruweia, corrua, croata.

Feudal Law.

A day's work of unpaid labour due by a vassal to his feudal lord; the whole forced labour thus exacted; in France, extended to the statute labour upon the public roads which was exacted of the French peasants before 1776: see quot. 1877.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > work > [noun] > forced, statute, or feudal work

week-worklOE

servicec1300

corvée1340

task-work1582

statute work1683

statute labour1729

statute duty1753

slave labour1820

forced labour1872

society > authority > subjection > service > feudal service > [noun] > specific service

bedrip1226

needbedripc1284

sorren1289

penny-eartha1300

corvée1340

plough-boon1388

timber-lodec1400

carriage1423

sickle-boon1438

foreign servicea1475

average1489

castle-guard1576

boonage1610

reaping day1657

reap day1663

archery1691

boon-work1883

bene-rip-

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 38 Kueade lordes..þat be-ulaȝeþ þe poure men..be tayles, be coruees [printed tornees], be lones, be kueade wones.

1794 J. Gifford Reign Louis XVI 184 The abolition of the Corvée, in kind, which had for ages been a source of constant oppression to the country people.

1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 219 The peasant, altho' personally free..is nevertheless restrained by limited corvees and some pecuniary contributions.

1877 J. Morley Crit. Misc. 2nd Ser. 202 When, in the early part of the [18th] century, the advantages of a good system of high roads began to be perceived by the Government, the convenient idea came into the heads of the more ingenious among the Intendants of imposing for the construction of the roads, a royal or public corvée analogous to that of private feudalism.

1882 L. Oliphant Land of Khemi 138 The canals were kept up by a corvée of the inhabitants.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	corvée
释义	corvéen. Brit. /kɔːˈveɪ/, /ˈkɔːveɪ/, U.S. /ˈkɔrˌveɪ/, /ˌkɔrˈveɪ/ Etymology: < French corvée, in 13th cent. also corowée < Romanic corvada, coruada (in a capitulary of Charlemagne) < late Latin corrogāta: corrogāta opera requested (i.e. requisitioned) work: < Latin corrogāre, < cor- together, and intensive + rogāre to ask, request. Mediæval Latinized forms of the French were corruweia, corrua, croata. Feudal Law. A day's work of unpaid labour due by a vassal to his feudal lord; the whole forced labour thus exacted; in France, extended to the statute labour upon the public roads which was exacted of the French peasants before 1776: see quot. 1877. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > work > [noun] > forced, statute, or feudal work week-worklOE servicec1300 corvée1340 task-work1582 statute work1683 statute labour1729 statute duty1753 slave labour1820 forced labour1872 society > authority > subjection > service > feudal service > [noun] > specific service bedrip1226 needbedripc1284 sorren1289 penny-eartha1300 corvée1340 plough-boon1388 timber-lodec1400 carriage1423 sickle-boon1438 foreign servicea1475 average1489 castle-guard1576 boonage1610 reaping day1657 reap day1663 archery1691 boon-work1883 bene-rip- 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 38 Kueade lordes..þat be-ulaȝeþ þe poure men..be tayles, be coruees [printed tornees], be lones, be kueade wones. 1794 J. Gifford Reign Louis XVI 184 The abolition of the Corvée, in kind, which had for ages been a source of constant oppression to the country people. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 219 The peasant, altho' personally free..is nevertheless restrained by limited corvees and some pecuniary contributions. 1877 J. Morley Crit. Misc. 2nd Ser. 202 When, in the early part of the [18th] century, the advantages of a good system of high roads began to be perceived by the Government, the convenient idea came into the heads of the more ingenious among the Intendants of imposing for the construction of the roads, a royal or public corvée analogous to that of private feudalism. 1882 L. Oliphant Land of Khemi 138 The canals were kept up by a corvée of the inhabitants. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1340
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