municipalityn.

1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 180 The municipalities had taken an alarm. View more context for this quotation

1792 A. Young Travels I. ii. xxii. 559 The assembly divided the total among the departments; the departments..among the districts; the districts among the municipalities; and the municipalities assemblied [sic] for the assessment of individuals.

1841 G. C. Lewis On Govt. of Dependencies 71 (note) A body of public functionaries may preside for certain purposes over a district (as a county, department, municipality, or borough).

1865 A. Maffei Brigand Life II. 47 In the municipality of Bisaccia..the only boys' school was a miserable place which hardly deserved the name.

1883 Cent. Mag. June 222/1 The city boundaries had been extended to take in both these faubourgs; and the three ‘municipalities’, as they were called, together numbered one hundred and two thousand inhabitants.

1912 J. Sandilands Western Canad. Dict. & Phrase-bk. (at cited word) Generally, however, by a municipality an incorporated rural municipality is referred to.

1949 Times-Picayune (New Orleans) 6 Mar. 18/4 There were heard the shouts of municipality boatmen, offering free but limited transportation.

2000 Guardian (Dar es Salaam) 27 Mar. 16/1 The Farm is situated about 60 kilometres North-East of Tanga Municipality.

1790 Pennsylvania Gaz. 10 Feb. 2/1 The National Assembly..have lately made two or three fundamental strokes towards liberty and freedom of conscience: The Municipalities of the different provinces are now modelling.

1792 Ld. Grenville Let. 7 Nov. in Duke of Buckingham Mem. Court & Cabinets George III (1853) II. 222 The trees..will make a great figure on my hill in the course of a century or so, provided always that the municipality of Burnham does not cut them down sooner.

1800 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1834) I. 262 They might for a time be under the inspection of the municipality (to use a French phrase).

1836 A. Alison Hist. Europe from French Revol. V. xlii. 627 To the great disappointment of the municipality and people.

1889 Publ. Amer. Econ. Assoc. 4 22 Mr John Burns..was lately returned at the head of the poll for the London County Council (the new municipality of the metropolis).

1942 G. M. Trevelyan Eng. Social Hist. xviii. 573 The great municipalities went into business to supply lighting, trams and other services to the ratepayers.

1981 E. Jolley Newspaper Claremont St. (1987) viii. 59 The municipality, in an endeavour to beautify the local beaches, had planted Norfolk pines.

1994 H. Holland Born in Soweto 8 The numerous beer-halls provided by Soweto's white-run municipality.

1795 A. Murphy Sallust 187 If by your authority you oblige the municipalities to receive the prisoners.

1872 E. W. Robertson Hist. Ess. 237 The Municipality, from uniting the advantages of self-government with the privileges of citizenship, became the most favoured form of colony.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 471/1 Alaric was met by Stilicho at Pollentia (a Roman municipality in what is now Piedmont).

1942 Jrnl. Econ. Hist. 2 149 For the employer, whether he be a burgess of moderate means at Rome or in an Italian municipality..dependence upon enslaved..persons offered advantages over the use of free men.

1977 Speculum 52 343 Monza..was not a Roman municipality and did not become the seat of a bishop.

1856 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 21 Nov. 9/1 Municipality may induce much folly, much roguery.

1883 E. A. Freeman in Brit. Q. Rev. July 130 Here [i.e. in Italy] was municipality on its grandest scale.