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freelagen.Origin: Probably formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: free adj., -laik suffix. Etymology: Originally probably < free adj. + -laik suffix. The β. forms may show a continuation of the same word, surviving only in northern varieties and Scots (lack of attestation of a northern and Scots word before the 16th cent. is not unlikely), or they may show a new formation. If they do show a continuation of the earlier word, the ending has probably been remodelled after knowledge n. and perhaps also words ultimately of Latin or Romance origin, such as privilege n., sacrilege n.1, etc.; in the form freelage perhaps influenced by -age suffix.In the early Middle English form freolac at α. forms after -lock suffix; compare (in different sense) Old English frēolāc oblation, offering bestowed freely or voluntarily (one isolated attestation; probably < free adj. + lake n.1 (compare discussion at -lock suffix)):OE Lambeth Psalter l. 21 Tunc acceptabis sacrificium iustitiae oblationes et holocausta tunc imponent super altare tuum uitulos : þonne þu onfehst onsægdnesse rihtwisnesse freolaca & offrunga þonne ofer wigbede þinum cealfru. Now rare ( Scottish and English regional ( northern) in later use) and historical. society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > [noun] society > law > legal right > right of specific class, person, or place > [noun] > privilege or exceptional right α. c1225 (?c1200) (Bodl.) (1981) 866 (MED) Ha..bisohte..þet he for his freolec firstede [perh. read fristede; c1225 Royal freolec friðede, a1250 Titus freolaic firstede] hire. c1225 (?c1200) (Bodl.) (1940) l. 61 Nis þis þeowdom inoh, Aȝein þet ilke freolec [a1250 Titus freolaic] þet ha hefde. ?c1225 (?a1200) (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 212 Ancre of oðer freolec [corrected to freoleic by later scribe] haueð ibeon oðerhwiles to freo of hire seoluen. β. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil (1959) ix. iii. 47 Quhat god hess to hym grantyt sik frelage [L. potestas]?1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius (1858) III. 359 In strang presoun, but ransoun or frelag, This nobill man..[he] maid to die.a1550 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun (Wemyss) xvii. (heading) Off Nynus king and frelage That he gert do till ane ymage.c1593 in J. Raine (1842) 36 A frelige graunted by God and Sancte Cuthbert for every such offender to flie unto for succour.1617 H. Best (1984) 245 Grace my wife..and her maid shall have their dyet..as they used to have when I was living, and the freledge of the gardens.1673 J. Ray N. Countrey Words in 19 Freelege (Sheffield), Privilege. Immunitas.1777 J. Nicolson & R. Burn I. 488 A yearly rent..paid..for freeledge of common upon East Grain and Middle Grain in Langdale fells.1789 J. Brand II. Index 23/1 Rogers, Oswald, presented with freelage, ii, 491.1887 23 July 73/2 Up to the year 1854 the admission to the freelege of this borough was, among other things, by ‘going through the well’.1892 R. O. Heslop Freelege, frelidge, the privilege of acquiring the freedom of the town. ‘He took up his freelege from his father.’ ‘He served his freelege as a joiner.’1909 8 May 373/1 The ‘freelage’ of a town which returned two members to Parliament, at a time when none but free burgesses could vote and polls lasted several days, was of some value.society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > a legal holding > [adjective] > held in freehold > held in fee-simple 1808 A. Scott (ed. 2) 63 Altho' he [sc. Adam] had a freelage grant O' mony a tree, herb, flower, an' plant, Yet still his breast confess'd a want. 1825 J. Jamieson Suppl. Freelage, an heritable property, as distinguished from a farm, Roxb[urghshire]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1225 |