单词 | gesith |
释义 | gesithn. Anglo-Saxon History. An attendant or companion of a king; hence, like medieval Latin comes count n.2, used as a designation of rank. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > retainer or follower > [noun] followereOE youngereOE retenantc1390 suitora1398 waitera1500 retainer1508 pursuivant1513 villein1534 consequent1550 backmanc1560 janissary1565 jackman1566 hensure1568 belonger1577 lackey1588 sequent1598 pedissequant1607 henchman1754 gesith1861 ministerialis1888 1861 C. H. Pearson Early & Middle Ages Eng. 72 Dependent on the king, and on the nobles, were the gesith or thanes. 1881 Athenæum 17 Sept. 360/2 The personal followers, the gesiths or thegns, on the one hand, and on the other the independent nobility and the national militia. Compounds gesith-socn n. an alleged Old English division of the county.But the word is spurious: see Stubbs Select Charters Glossary at Sithessocna, and Bosworth-Toller at Scip-fylleð. ΚΠ 1872 E. W. Robertson Hist. Ess. 118 Every county was at this time divided into Hundreds and Gesith-socns. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1861 |
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