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单词 pittancery
释义

pittanceryn.

Brit. /ˈpɪt(ə)ns(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈpɪdənˌs(ə)ri/, /ˈpɪtnˌs(ə)ri/
Forms: 1500s pitensarie, 1500s pyttansary, 1500s pyttansery, 1800s– pittancery, 2000s– pittansary (historical).
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French pitancerie.
Etymology: < Middle French pitancerie (1330; earlier in Old French as pidencerie (1294)) < pitance pittance n. + -erie -ery suffix. Compare post-classical Latin pitantiaria, pietantiaria (from 13th cent. in British and continental sources), Old Occitan pitansaria (1366), Spanish pitancería (1285 or earlier as †pitançeria).
Now historical and rare.
The office or position of pittancer; the estate administered by a pittancer.
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the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > real or immovable property > land > land owned or occupied by specific class of person
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1519 W. More Jrnl. (1914) 1 Item to the pyttansary for vj C. of burdes 11s.
1585 in R. E. G. Kirk Acct. Abingdon Abbey (1892) 167 A parcel of land and marsh called the Pitensarie.
1892 R. E. G. Kirk Acct. Abingdon Abbey p. xxxvi 79s. 7d. was transferred from the Pittancery to the Gardenery.
1949 H. E. Butler tr. Chron. Jocelin of Brakelond 10 More unseemly still, in the days of the war their wives and children took refuge in our pittancery.
2005 D. Burrows Handel & Eng. Chapel Royal xvi. 466 The Vicars Choral [of St Paul's Cathedral] appointed one of their number annually as Pittansary to administer the rents.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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