单词 | kinboot |
释义 | † kinbootn. Scottish. Obsolete. A wergild or man-boot paid by a homicide to the kin of the person slain. (Not the same as the Old English cynebót or royal compensation.) ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > compensation > [noun] > for man's life man-botea1000 bloodwitelOE manworthlOE wergilda1214 kinbootc1425 eric1587 were1607 blood-fine1818 blood money1826 c1425 Wyntoun Cron. vi. xix. 2282 For a yhwman twelf markis ay Þe slaare suld for kynbwt pay. 1478 in Acts Lords of Council Civil Causes (1839) I. 9/1 Þt walter blare sall..pay to Robert of Cargill..xxv mercis..for a kynbute. 1606 Ld. Roxburgh in 14th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1896) App. iii. 32 [He then..offers a sum of money..for] kinbut and satisfaction. 1876 A. Laing Lindores Abbey xxv. 328 He shall be free on payment of twenty-four merks of Kinbot.] This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < |
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