单词 | in alms |
释义 | > as lemmasin alms 3. Law. Tenure by gift of charity, spec. perpetual tenure by free gift of charity without secular obligations; = frankalmoign n. (chiefly as in alms). Also: property held in such tenure. historical in later use.In early use always with reference to pious benefactions to the Church.Frequently with preceding adjective. free alms: see free adj., n., and adv. Compounds 2. pure alms: see pure adj. 2b.In Old English the preceding adjective typically specifies the perpetuity of the grant rather than freedom of secular obligations. [With Old English ēce ælmesse (see eche adj.) compare post-classical Latin elemosina sempiterna (early 8th cent. in a lost charter, first half of 9th cent. in British sources). Compare also later perpetual alms n. at perpetual adj., adv., and n. Compounds 1, pure and perpetual alms at pure adj. 2b.] ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > [noun] > tenure by free gift of charity almsOE almoign?a1400 perpetual alms?c1430 free alms1445 frankalmoigna1513 OE Charter: Ealdorman Æðelred to Berkeley Abbey (Sawyer 218) in F. E. Harmer Sel. Eng. Hist. Docs. 9th & 10th Cent. (1914) 21 Twelf hida land æt Stoce..sio agefen to Wigornacestre þam bisceopstole for Æðelred ealdormon & for ealle Merce him to ecre ælmessan. OE Agreement between Bp. Wærferð & Æðelwold (Sawyer 1441) in F. E. Harmer Sel. Eng. Hist. Docs. 9th & 10th Cent. (1914) 24 Ða cydde Werferð biscop þam weotum, þæt him wære forneh eall þæt wudulond ongereafad..þæt Æþelbald cyning gesalde to Weogernaceastre, him to ecre ælmessan. a1325 ( Writ of Edward the Confessor, Westminster (Sawyer 1148) in F. E. Harmer Anglo-Saxon Writs (1952) 369 Hwa se ðas ælmesse holdlice healde, healde hine God and Godes moder on ece blisse. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) Prol. l. 742 (MED) The richesse Which to Silvestre in pure almesse The ferste Constantinus lefte, Fro holy cherche thei berefte. a1400 ( Writ of Edward the Confessor, York (Sawyer 1161) in F. E. Harmer Anglo-Saxon Writs (1952) 419 Ic cyðe eow þæt ic habbe geunnan Ealdrede þaes arcebiscopes dyacne..þæt mynster at Axaminster..into Peteres mynster on Euerwic to almesse. ?1529 Proper Dyaloge Gentillman & Husbandman sig. B vv And ouer thys they saye more suttelly that they occupye not thys by tytle of secular lordshyppe but by tytle of perpetuall allmes. 1607 J. Cowell Interpreter at Frank almoine Britton maketh another kind of this land, &c. which is giuen in almes, but not free almes: because the tenents in this are tyed in certain seruices to the feoffor. 1677 R. Thoroton Antiq. Notts. 446 In Waresop of the Soc of Maunsfeld was one Bov. which a certain blind man held of the King in Alms. 1720 A. Collins Baronettage of Eng. I. 15 He..bequeath'd three Acres to Cockersand, in free Alms. 1824 E. Baines Hist. Lancaster I. i. 14 There was a priest there [sc. Childwall] having half a carucate of land, held in alms. 1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest V. 537 Among gifts to churches, we find..a whole string of grants in alms to great churches in England and Normandy. 1932 F. M. Stenton First Cent. Eng. Feudalism ii. 45 They [sc. clerks] could draft the straightforward record of an enfeoffment or a grant of land in alms, but many of them were curiously helpless as soon as [etc.]. 1995 A. Williams Eng. & Norman Conquest (1997) v. 112 In Middlesex two widows held land in alms. < as lemmas |
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