单词 | tanistry |
释义 | tanistryn. Ancient Irish Law and Gaelic Law. a. A system of life-tenure among the ancient Irish and Gaels, whereby the succession to an estate or dignity was conferred by election upon the ‘eldest and worthiest’ among the surviving kinsmen of the deceased lord. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > [noun] > types of tenure by inheritance Borough-English1327 parage1450 courtesy1523 homage ancestral?1538 borough-kind1577 tanistrya1599 borough-tenurea1670 parentage1728 curiality1861 a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 5 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) All the Irish doe hold their Land by Tanistrie. a1604 M. Hanmer Chron. Ireland 17 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) The two sonnes were put beside, and the eldest of the sept (after the Irish Tanistrie) tooke place. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 6 The Irish Law of Tanistry (by which a man is preferred to a boy, and the Vncle to that Nephew whose Grandfather ouerliues the Father, and commonly the most actiue Knaue, not the next Heire, is chosen). 1663 R. Gordon Govt. Scotl. in W. Macfarlane Geogr. Coll. Scotl. (1907) II. 391 The law of Tanistrie wes that a Prince dying and leaving behind him children in minority..the neerest male of the blood royall..tooke the government upon him. 1777 T. Campbell Philos. Surv. S. Ireland xl. 396 Him they called Thanist, and the custom Thanistry. 1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. II. xviii. 701 The law of tanistry, of which the principle is defined to be, that the demesne lands and dignity of chieftainship descended to the eldest and most worthy of the same blood. 1904 Times, Lit. Supp. 22 July 229/1 Despite tanistry..Scotland managed to have real Monarchs when Ireland had none. b. The office of a tanist (= Gaelic tanaisteachd). ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > rule or government of family or tribe > head of family, tribe, or clan > [noun] > Irish > heir elect to > position of tanistship1585 tanistry1813 1813 W. Scott Rokeby iv. 161 Against St George's cross blazed high The banners of his Tanistry. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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