单词 | foredrove |
释义 | † foredroven. Obsolete. An animal or animals driven before the corpse at a funeral, a corse-present or mortuary. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > obsequies > [noun] > funeral expenses > gift due to clergy > of animals foredrove1504 1504 Will of John Osburne in Trans. Essex Archæol. Soc. (1878) 1 167 I bequeth ij shepe of a yere age for my fore Drove. 1534 Will of William Perte (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/25) f. 70v A shepe price ijs. which I will shall be dreven before me in the day of my buryall for a foredrove. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1504 |
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