单词 | eric |
释义 | ericn. Irish History. A blood-fine (see quots.) ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > compensation > [noun] > for man's life man-botea1000 bloodwitelOE manworthlOE wergilda1214 kinbootc1425 eric1587 were1607 blood-fine1818 blood money1826 1587 J. Hooker tr. Giraldus Cambrensis Vaticinall Hist. Conquest Ireland i. xxxv. 23/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II When earike or composition is made among the laie people for anie murther. a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 4 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) In the case of murder..the malefactor shall give unto them [sc. the friends], or to the child, or wife of him that is slain, a recompence, which they call an Eriach. c1600 J. Dymmok Treat. Ireland (1842) 9 The party offendinge..is alloted to paye to the wife or childe of the party murdered, or to the party agreeved, a kind of satisfaction, termed by them an Iriach. 1612 J. Davies Discouerie Causes Ireland 109 The killing of an Jrish man, was..punnished..by a Fine or pecuniary punishment, which is called an Ericke. 1612 J. Davies Discouerie Causes Ireland 166 Your Sheriffe..shall be welcome to me, but let me knowe his Ericke..afore hand. a1849 J. C. Mangan Poems (1859) 389 All the dead Heaped on the field..Were scarce an eric for his head. 1885 R. Bagwell Ireland under Tudors I. 11 This blood-fine, called an eric, was an utter abomination to the English of the sixteenth century. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1587 |
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