单词 | high reeve |
释义 | > as lemmashigh reeve c. high reeve: = sense 1a. Also in extended use. Cf. high adj. and n.2 Compounds 1c. Now historical.The precise nature of the rank or office originally denoted by the title is uncertain; sometimes denoting an officer of a higher rank than sheriff, but at other times apparently used as its equivalent (see further F. Liebermann Gesetze der Angelsachsen (1912) II. 498–9). ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > holder of office > magistrate > chief magistrate of a district > [noun] reeveeOE high reeveOE praetor?a1439 surveyor1548 OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Mark xiii. 9 Ante praesides et reges stabitis propter me : befora undercyningum uel hehgeroefum & cyningum gie biðon stondende uel gie stondes fore mec. OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Parker) anno 1001 Ðær wearð Æþelweard cinges heahgerefa ofslegen..& Leofwine cinges heahgerefa. OE Laws: Norðleoda Laga (Corpus Cambr.) iv. 460 Holdes & cyninges heahgerefan [wergild] iiii þusend þrimsa. c1225 (?c1200) St. Juliana (Bodl.) 61 Maximien hehest i Rome, þet is, heh reue. 1656 J. Harrington Common-wealth of Oceana 34 The Division that was in use with the Teutons, was by Counties, and every County had either his Ealdorman, or high Reeve. 1848 J. M. Kemble Saxons in Eng. (1876) II. ii. v. 157 These high-reeves were therefore probably military officers of Æðelred. 1872 E. W. Robertson Hist. Ess. 177 Amongst the Northumbrians, the place of the Ealderman seems to have been filled by the High-Reeve. 1939 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 33 132 The sheriff evolving from the borough high-reeve about the year 1000. 1991 Albion 23 618 It was the abbot of Lindisfarne, not the high reeve at Bamburgh, who eventually negotiated a settlement with the Vikings. < as lemmas |
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