单词 | homager |
释义 | homagern. 1. A person who shows reverence, dutiful respect, or honour to another; a worshipper. Also figurative with reference to an inanimate or abstract thing. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > respect > reverence > [noun] > one who reverences homagera1425 reverencer1577 adorant1623 venerator1656 reverer1660 a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) (1891) l. 3288 Whanne thou were maad the omager Of god of love to hastily [Fr. Quant au diex d'Amors te rendis]. a1450 (?1420) J. Lydgate Temple of Glas (Tanner) (1891) l. 571 (MED) Nou am I cauȝt vnder subieccioun, Forto bicome a verre homagere To god o[f] loue. a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) i. i. 33 Thou blushest Anthony, and that blood of thine Is Cæsars homager . View more context for this quotation 1673 R. Allestree Ladies Calling i. v. §34. 43 Interest..should render her an homager to that omnipotent power. 1723 J. Trenchard & T. Gordon 2nd Coll. Cato's Lett. in Brit. Jrnl. 49 The low Homagers of gloomy Pedants. 1790 M. O. Warren Poems ii. iv. 35 The eastern monarch..Majestick rising o'er the burnish'd world, Beholds his homagers on ev'ry side. 1853 W. G. Simms Poems I. 255 The devoted feelings of his heart, So long her homagers, now all recall'd, Came home rebellious from that sweeter realm. 1877 M. W. Chapman in H. Martineau Autobiogr. III. 101 The newspapers were zealous heralds and homagers. 1910 G. Myers Hist. Great Amer. Fortunes (1911) III. xiv. 340 Seeing that he ‘began’—as his eulogists express it—without money, how did he contrive to get all this wealth? His homagers do not explain this vital question. 1996 Star-Ledger (Newark, New Jersey) (Nexis) 29 Sept. (Travel) 1 Near the Cathedral, on Cabot..is the place any true Kerouacian homager must go: the Rainbow bar. 2. Feudal Law. A person who owes homage or fealty; one who holds land by homage. Now historical.crown, liege homager: see the first element. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > feudal service > feudal homage or allegiance > [noun] > one who homagerc1425 liege homager1608 society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > one who has tenure > [noun] > by service or allegiance vassala1400 homagerc1425 tenant by the verge1607 virgea1616 servient1813 c1425 (?a1400) Arthur (Longleat 55) l. 133 (MED) Arthour wolde..sende Messanger To kynges ferre & neer Þat were to hym Omager, to come to þis Dyner. a1500 (a1450) Partonope of Blois (Rawl. Poet.) (1912) l. 4077 (MED) Yef þe kynge of France shulde be Youre omagour, þen myght he Sey ye hade made a fayre conqueste. a1529 J. Skelton Against Scottes (1843) 122 Pardy, ye were his homager And suter to his parlement. 1586 J. Ferne Blazon of Gentrie 141 There is also a King, and he a homager, or feudotarie to the estate and Maiestie of another King, as to his superior lord. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 69 The Camuni..did seruice as homagers to them. 1690 W. Leybourn Cursus mathematicus f. 460v Causing the Royalets to become Homagers to the Crown of England. 1716 H. Prideaux Old & New Test. Connected (ed. 2) I. i. 52 From the time of Manasseh's restoration, the kings of Judah were homagers to the kings of Babylon, and bound by oath to adhere to them against all their enemies. 1748 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 4) IV. 271 The Isle of Man..for several Generations, has belonged to Families, who have been Homagers to the Crown of England for it. 1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. iv. 231 Before long we find him again the faithful homager of King Lewis. 1922 Studies: Irish Q. Rev. 11 169 The inferior was styled the man, homager or vassal of the other, who was called his lord or seignior. 1998 C. Kidd in B. Bradshaw & P. Roberts Brit. Consciousness & Identity (2003) xi. 333 A dependent Scottish nation whose kings before the regal union, it was alleged, had been homagers of their English overlords. 3. A manorial tenant, esp. one attending a manorial court, or the jury of such a court. Cf. homage n. 2. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > one who has tenure > [noun] > manorial tenant homagera1641 a1641 J. Smyth Berkeley MSS (1883) I. 282 All of them homagers to the Castle of Berkeley. 1651 tr. J. Kitchin Jurisdictions 6 Homagers of Court ought to inquire in this Court. 1714 W. Scroggs Pract. Courts-leet (ed. 3) 159 The Oath of a Stranger in the Lord's Court to the Homagers. 1793 C. Durnford & E. H. East Rep. Cases King's Bench IV. 481 The question here is not whether two homagers alone could elect. 1845 Leicester Chron. 11 Oct. The Jury of homagers, or tenants, who were there put on their oath, stated among other things that [etc.]. 1888 A. Jessopp Coming of Friars v. 225 The homagers were afraid to give a verdict against the steward. 1926 Econ. Jrnl. 36 24 No shadowy control by a County Agricultural Authority will supply the local knowledge and personal touch of the homager in a Manorial Court dealing with the affairs of his own parish. 1990 P. Large in J. Chartres & D. Hey Eng. Rural Society v. 113 At Ombersley in 1600, the typical homager had lived all his life in the manor and was considered to be a ‘yeoman’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1425 |
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