单词 | manorial |
释义 | manorialadj. 1. Of or relating to a manor or manors; of or relating to the medieval system of social organization based on the manor (see manorial system n. at sense 2); designating a privilege, custom, etc., attached to a manor. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > possessions > [adjective] > real or immovable > consisting of landed property > relating to a manor manerial1765 manorial1775 honorial1836 1775 R. Cumberland Choleric Man ii. iv. 25 Standeth not the said pigeon-house within the manorial rights of Calves-Town. 1794 R. Southey Wat Tyler iii. i, in Poet. Wks. (1837) II. 47 They have..demanded the abolition of personal slavery, vassalage and manorial rights. 1852 G. Bancroft Hist. Amer. Revol. II. iii. 40 His tomb in the old manorial church. 1890 F. Pollock Oxf. Lect. 129 The administration of a manorial domain. 1961 P. White Let. 20 Nov. (1994) vii. 202 We went out to Anlaby one day—very manorial. 1992 D. Lessing Afr. Laughter 220 Five of us set off on a walk around the farm, or to use the old manorial style, around the lands. 2. manorial system n. a system of social, political, and economic organization practised widely in medieval Europe, in which peasants and free tenants were rendered dependent on their lord for land tenure and the administration of local justice; see manor n. 3a.The manorial system was intimately connected with the feudal system, but historians distinguish between the two on the basis that the manorial system did not involve estates held in fief. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > a or the system of government > systems based on specific principle > [noun] > feudal system feudal system1776 feudalism1839 manorial system1871 baronism1884 1871 H. S. Maine Village Communities v. 148 A number of controversies turning on the mode of transition from the village system to what I have called the manorial system. 1916 Edinb. Rev. July 73 A feature which reminds us of the week-works of the villein under our own manorial system. 1942 Rep. Comm. Land Utilisation in Rural Areas 11 in Parl. Papers 1941–2 (Cmd. 6378) IV. 421 In other parts, especially where the community was organised under the feudal or manorial systems, nucleated settlements or villages are the rule. 1988 Oxf. Illustr. Encycl. III. 5/2 The medieval economy rested on the manorial system. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1775 |
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