单词 | sergeantry |
释义 | † sergeantryserjeantryn. Obsolete. 1. = sergeanty n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > [noun] > tenure by service > tenure by personal service to king sergeantryc1400 sergeanty1467 sergeancy1602 c1400 Brut i. 242 Y ȝelde vp, Sir, now vnto ȝow my homage,..for ham alle þat holden by seriauntrye [1480 Caxton seryauntre]. 1751 S. Whatley England's Gazetteer at Scrivelsby-Hall The Dimocks..hold the manor by grand serjeantry. 1751 S. Whatley England's Gazetteer at Pitchley Northamp... The ancient Lds. of this manor held it of the K. by petit serjeantry, i.e. to furnish dogs at their own cost, to destroy the wolves, foxes, pole-cats, and other vermin in the Cos. of Northampton, Rutland, Oxford, Essex, and Bucks. a1797 E. Burke Ess. Abridgm. Eng. Hist. (rev. ed.) in Wks. (1812) V. 585 If the tenant was in an office about the King's person, this gave rise to sergeantry. 1830 W. Scott Ayrshire Trag. i. i We'll not suffer A word of sergeantry, or halberd-staff. 1830 G. P. R. James Darnley I. vii. 155 To hold his land by sergeantry, as it had been held by Lord Fitzbernard. 1840 R. H. Barham Spectre of Tappington in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 17 These lands... were held in grand serjeantry by the presentation of three white owls. 2. The office of sergeant or serjeant. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer by rank > [noun] > sergeant > position of sergeantry1426 sergeancy1814 sergeantship1909 1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 16221 [Tribulation loq.] And thus vsynge myn Sergawntry, I kan werke dyuersly; Wherffore I rede be war off me, For I anoon shal smyte the. 1669 Sc. Acts Chas. II (1820) VII. 588/2 All and haill the office of Serjandrie of the lands & Lordship of Methven. 3. Skill as a serjeant-at-law.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1830 C. Lamb In Autogr. Bk. Mrs. Serjeant W—— in Album Verses These should moot cases in your book, and vie To show their reading and their Serjeantry. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.c1400 |
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