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单词 pewage
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pewagen.

Forms: 1600s 1800s pewage, 1800s puage.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pew n.1, -age suffix.
Etymology: < pew n.1 + -age suffix. N.E.D. (1905) gives the pronunciation as (piū·ėdʒ) /ˈpjuːɪdʒ/.
Obsolete.
Rent paid for a pew or pews; the arrangement or provision of pews in a church, etc.; a church's pews collectively.
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1640 Articles to be enquired of within Diocesse of London sig. B4v You suffer your Parish Clark to gather his wages himselfe..upon pre[t]ence of pewage, or the like.
1684 J. Wade in J. Nichols Coll. Top. & Gen. (1836) III. 317 For pewage, Sr Lionel Jenkin £1 5 0.
1836 J. Nichols Coll. Top. & Gen. III. 316 The presents or gratuities which he received in addition to the ‘pewage money’.
1841 G. Poulson Hist. Holderness II. 288 The former pewage was very ancient; two pews bore the inscription 1590.
1842 Ecclesiologist Nov. 62 The puage of all these churches is exceeding bad.
1899 Times 22 Aug. 10/4 The Government has made no such provision, and only pays a small amount as ‘pewage’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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