单词 | barony |
释义 | baronyn. 2004 1. The domain of a baron: a. strictly. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > jurisdiction or territory of specific rulers or nobles > [noun] > of baron barony1297 baronryc1449 baronage1475 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. 479 He ȝef him & is eirs the noble baronie. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 38 Þet..nimeþ þe cites, þe casteles, þe londes, þe baronyes. 1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur (1816) II. 413 King Arthur gave unto every each of them a barony of lands. 1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor 274 Lands and Mannors..of sufficient reuenue and qualitie to make what was accounted a Baronie, which was xiii. Knights Fees, and a Third part. 1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης iv. 34 The People, that drove the Bishops out of thir Baronies. 1860 J. Forster Deb. Grand Remonstr. 29 A baron claimed his barony not as a lord..but as a proprietor. 1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest V. xxiv. 417 To say that the Bishops sit in Parliament simply because they hold baronies runs counter to all the facts of our history. b. In Ireland: A division of a county; see quot. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > an administrative division of territory > [noun] > administrative divisions in Britain > other small administrative divisions > in parts of Britain and Ireland ward1431 graveship1460 commot1495 sheading1577 toughe1584 baronya1599 riding1675 graviate1728 borough1899 a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 111 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) That in every Countrey or Baronie, they should keepe an other able schoole-master. 1607 J. Davies Let. in Hist. Tracts (1787) 229 The county of Monaghan was divided into five baronies. a1687 W. Petty Polit. Anat. Ireland (1691) 326 In Ireland..an head constable for each barony or hundred, being 252. 1752 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. III. 577 Baronies, into which the Irish counties are divided as the English are into hundreds. 1873 Gen. Rep. Census Eng. IV. 181 The Baronies appear to have been formed successively on the submission of the Irish chiefs..the territory of each constituting a barony. c. In Scotland: A large freehold estate or manor, even though the proprietor is a simple commoner. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > real or immovable property > land > a landed property or estate > a large estate barony1843 1843 Oliver & Boyd's Almanac 473 Incorporated Trades of the Barony of Calton [Edinburgh]. 1854 H. Miller My Schools & Schoolmasters v. 97 The proprietor of the Barony, who lived at a distance, and had no dwelling upon the land. 1885 N.E.D. at Barony Mod. The best farm in the whole barony. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > baron or baroness > [noun] > baron > body of barons barony1297 baronagea1300 barnéc1375 baronady1587 baronrya1652 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. 535 The Erl of Gloucetre Richard deide tho, Tho was the baronie wel in the more wo. c1300 Beket 1105 The King and al his Baronie: and his Bischops echon. a1500 (?c1450) Merlin vi. 106 Alle the baronye come to the mynster. 1619 M. Drayton Legend Pierce Gauesten in Poems (new ed.) 363 The bold Barony. 3. The rank or dignity of baron; the office of Baron of the Exchequer; baronship. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > baron or baroness > [noun] > rank or dignity of baronady1586 baronry?a1600 baronage1614 baronetship1661 baronetage1765 barony1788 baronetcy1812 baronethood1869 society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > judge > [noun] > of court of exchequer > office of baronship1874 barony1885 1788 H. Walpole Reminiscences (1924) vii. 52 A barony, a red riband, and a good place for her brother. 1868 Daily News 6 July The lowest order in the English peerage—a barony. 1885 Law Times 14 Mar. 347/2 The abolition of the Chief Justiceship of the Common Pleas, and the Chief Barony. 4. The tenure by which a baron held of his superior; military or other ‘honourable’ tenure. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > [noun] > tenure by service > by military or knight service > tenure of baron or thane thanage14.. barony1863 1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. i. vii. 63 William the Conqueror changed the spiritual tenure of frankalmoign or free alms..into the feudal tenure by barony. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1297 |
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