| 单词 | blood-fine |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblood-fine blood-fine n. a fine paid as whole or part compensation for murder. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > compensation > [noun] > for man's life man-botea1000 bloodwitelOE manworthlOE wergilda1214 kinbootc1425 eric1587 were1607 blood-fine1818 blood money1826 1818 Edinb. Rev. Dec. 98 The relations of the slain had been compelled to content themselves with the diminished blood fine. 1851 F. Palgrave Hist. Normandy & Eng. I. 489 The Were or bloodfine for every Dane who had been killed. 1983 Hist. Jrnl. 26 308 The saga also describes the eric or blood-fine, paid by the sons of Turann for having slain Lugh's father. 1989 Arab Law Q. 4 348 The blood fine for feticide is reckoned by most jurists as one-twentieth of the ordinary diyya. < as lemmas |
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