单词 | margraviate |
释义 | margraviaten. Now historical. The territory ruled by a margrave or margravine; = margravate n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > territory under a governor or official > [noun] > under a margrave margraviate1702 margravate1788 1702 London Gaz. No. 3870/2 They proceeded to the Margraviate of Anspach. 1838 H. H. Milman tr. F. Guizot in E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1845) I. 439/1 (note) Those who inhabit near the Rhine, in Ortenau, the Brisgaw, the Margraviate of Baden, do not consider themselves Suabians. 1857 J. Marryat Hist. Pottery & Porcelain (ed. 2) xi. 267 We give the marks of Anspach.., although we are uncertain whether they belong to Anspach in Thuringia or the former Margraviate in Bavaria. 1870 J. H. Burton Hist. Scotl. to 1688 VI. lxx. 511 German grand-duchies and margraviates. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 494/1 Albert..became the founder of the margraviate of Brandenburg. 1987 Speculum 62 577 The division between liberi and ministeriales in the witness lists disappeared in the margraviate of Baden in the course of the thirteenth century. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1702 |
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