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单词 murage
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muragen.

Brit. /ˈmjʊərɪdʒ/, /ˈmjɔːrɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈmjʊrɪdʒ/
Forms: Middle English meerage, Middle English morage, Middle English– murage, 1500s muradge, 1600s murrage.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French murage; Latin muragium.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French murage (system of) walls (late 12th cent. in Anglo-Norman, 13th cent. in Old French), tax levied for the building or repairing of town walls (late 13th cent. in Old French) and its probable etymon post-classical Latin muragium tax levied for the building or repairing of town walls (12th cent.; frequently in British sources 1159–1526), building or repair of walls (1413 in a British source) < classical Latin mūrus mure n. + post-classical Latin -agium -age suffix.
Now historical.
1. A toll or tax levied for the building or repairing of town walls (later more fully murage duty); the right granted to a town for the levying of such a toll.In quot. a1525: the fund into which such taxes were paid.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > dues or tolls for upkeep or maintenance > [noun]
bridge-boteOE
bridge silverc1254
parkbotea1315
fosse-silver?a1325
pontagea1325
murage1424
pavagec1450
bridge money1482
fox-hen1528
jail money1600
water-corn1600
beaconage1607
castle-bote1628
burgh-bote1647
barbicanage1691
highway rate1697
fossage1757
mint duties1782
society > law > legal right > rights to do or use something > [noun] > right of taking toll or taxes > specific
thirl-multure1423
multure meal1547
multure1565–6
murage1636
ferrya1638
1424 Bridgewater Borough Munim. 1427 (MED) Morage.
c1432 Bridgewater Borough Munim. 1444 (MED) Recevyd for Plancage & Morage, x d.
1450 Rolls of Parl. V. 185/2 Ony manner Graunte of murage, made by you to eny Maier and Commynaltee.
c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 29 To paye toll, pyckage, murage, or grondage.
c1503 tr. Charter of London in R. Arnold Chron. f. vij/2 We haue grauntyd for vs and for our eyers to our citezens yt they..be quyt for euer of pauage pontage and murage by al our reame.
a1525 Coventry Leet Bk. 59 Þat Mold Lichefeld pay to þe murage of this cite aftur þe lond þat she holdithe, & no oþer wyse.
1636 W. Prynne Remonstr. against Shipmoney 8 Kings of England cannot by their Prerogative..grant Murage, or any other such Tallage to any by Patent.
a1676 M. Hale Narr. Customes iii, in S. A. Moore Hist. Foreshore (1888) 337 These two sorts of taxes. (1) Murage: for the wallinge in of a port so that it may bee safe against invasion of forren enemyes [etc.]. (2) Kaiage or wharfage.
1777 J. Nicolson & R. Burn Hist. Westmorland & Cumberland II. Gloss. 612 Murage, a toll taken for a cart or horse laden going through a walled city or town, for repairing the walls thereof.
1810 D. Lysons & S. Lysons Magna Brit. II. ii. 581 Another ancient office is that of the murengers [of Chester], whose duty it is to receive the murage duties, and superintend their expenditure in the repair of the walls.
1851 Orig. Paroch. Scotl. I. 467 In the same year..the same King granted to his burgesses of Rokesburgh liberty to raise a yearly murage from saleable commodities brought into the town in order to enclose it for the greater security of the same and the parts adjacent.
1907 Amer. Hist. Rev. 12 735 In the reigns of Henry III. and Edward I. the clergy of England claimed to be free from murage and other tolls.
1987 I. Scouloudi Huguenots in Brit. 67 The strangers..were to be liable for all [Canterbury] city taxes and duties, particularly those relating to the defence of the city: that is murage and watch.
2. The building of walls. Also: a system of defensive walls. Obsolete. rare.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > [noun] > building walls
wall-workc1000
murage1450
walling1480
immuring1610
muring1624
society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > defensive walls > [noun]
murage1600
wall-work1837
1450 Petition Winchester to Henry VI in Archaeologia (1770) 1 91 The enclosyng and meerage of your said citee.
1553 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 414 Massons workinge..uppon the workes of muradge and pavadge.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxxiv. xxxviii. 875 This Sparta in times past stood without murage [L. sine muro]. And the tyrants of late daies had built walles against the open flattes and plaine fields.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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