| 单词 | kirkshire |
| 释义 | > as lemmaskirkshire kirkshire n. historical (in the early medieval period) an ecclesiastical district consisting of one church and its priest; = priestshire n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > land > [noun] > of priest kirkshire1844 1844 Dublin Rev. Mar. 169 A tract of country was then separated by the bishop from his own immediate superintendence, and became known as the ‘kirk-shire’. a1883 J. R. Green Conquest of Eng. (1884) i. 13 It was only by slow degrees that the parish, or kirkshire as it was then called, attained a settled form. 1906 T. W. Shore Origin Anglo-Saxon Race x. 177 Kirkshire in some parts of England appears to have been an early name for parish. < as lemmas |
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