tenantryn.
/ˈtɛnəntri/, U.S. /ˈtɛnəntri/ 1. The state or condition of being a tenant; occupancy as a tenant; tenancy; tenantship.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > [noun] > action or fact of
tenementa1325
tenantry1391
holding1420
manuring1436
tenure1442
manurance?1467
occupying1577
tenancy1590
holda1647
society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > [noun] > leasehold tenure
tack1423
farmage?1529
tenancy1590
leasehold1720
lesseeship1812
tenantry1846
tenantship1883
1391 in W. Fraser Lennox (1874) II. 43 Murthow..sal indow hir in the barony of the Redehall with the apportenantis in tenandry and in demayn.
1597 J. Skene De Verborum Significatione at Manus The King may be thereby prejudged in his tenendrie, dewtie and service.
1606 W. Warner Continuance Albions Eng. xvi. ciii. 406 To take the foyson Lords haue skill, On Tainters setting Tenentries, oft for Expences ill.
1846 J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) I. p. xxi It was only by the tenantry of the peaceful monks that the land was even tolerably tilled.
1889 Cornhill Mag. Dec. 563 The Miss Tremenheeres had almost come to an end of their tenantry at Elm Place.
2. † b. The holding of a tenant; a piece of land, a dwelling-house, or the like, held by a tenant under the landlord. Also transferred. Obsolete.
a. Land held of a superior; land let out to tenants; also, the profits of such land.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > a legal holding > [noun] > leasehold land or tenement
tenantry1385
take1392
rent1422
tenantryc1450
tack?a1500
tenancy1579
tenanty1612
rentage1892
1385 in 3rd Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1872) App. 410 in Parl. Papers (C. 673) XXXIII. 337 Somonde at the chef plaz of the teneindri of Lytilton.
1438 St. Andrews Regr. (Bannatyne Club) 430 Ovirmalgask is fundin a tenandry in yhour awyn court of þe fornemmyt lordschip.
c1460 Oseney Regr. 20 With all churchis and chapells londis rentis tenauntries and tithes possessions and other thynges to þe saide church of seynte George perteynyng.
1584 in D. Masson Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1880) 1st Ser. III. 673 Thair saidis tennendreis salbe annext to the Kingis Majesteis propirtie as his propir rent.
1597 J. Skene De Verborum Significatione at Recognition Lands..annalied, and sauld be them heritably, to be halden of themselues and their aires, ceasis to be propertie to them, and becomes tennendry immediately halden of them and their aires.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > a legal holding > [noun] > leasehold land or tenement
tenantry1385
take1392
rent1422
tenantryc1450
tack?a1500
tenancy1579
tenanty1612
rentage1892
c1450 Godstow Regr. 149 To lete to oony man the foresayde tenantry ne no perte of hit with-owte speciall licence of þe foresayde abbesse.
1465 M. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 292 Ther be dyuers of your tenauntrys at Mauteby that had gret ned for to be reparyd.
1521 Accts. St. John's Hosp., Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/4) The wyndowes of the tenauntry in Doklane.
1528 W. Tyndale Obed. Christen Man f. lv Let Christen londlordes be contente with their rente and olde customes not..lettinge .ij. or .iij. tenauntryes vnto one man.
1547 Act 1 Edw. VI c. 3 §9 Tenauntries cotages or other convenient howses to be lodged in.
1613–14 Taxt Roll 20 Jan. in Glasgow Daily Herald (1864) 24 Sept. Cruixsfie propertie and tennandrie, 100 lib.
c. A set of houses owned by tenants collectively.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > real or immovable property > houses owned by tenants collectively
tenantry1905
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > [noun] > collectively > type of
model dwellings1851
model1887
tenantry1905
row housing1920
social housing1928
open housing1958
tobacco housing1960
twilight housing1971
co-housing1988
1905 Westm. Gaz. 23 Aug. 8/3 It is here sought to prove as a sound economical principle..the collective ownership of a house with individual responsibility. No one tenant owns any distinct house in any ‘tenantry’, but the profits that accrue from that particular ‘tenantry’, after the deduction of interest on the money, cost of repairs, &c., are shared amongst the tenants.
3. spec. That part of a manor or estate under common or open-field husbandry (Tusser's ‘champion countrie’, Husb. lxiii.) occupied by tenants, as distinct from the lord's demesne (as in Domesday Survey, ‘terra in dominio’ and ‘terra in villenagio’). Hence, locally applied to the condition or system of tenancy under open-field husbandry. See also tenantry acre n., tenantry field n., tenantry flock n., tenantry land n. at Compounds 1.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > tenure and rights > [noun] > systems of tenure
stintagea1642
stintinga1642
take1794
tenantry1794
crofting1851
mezzadria1875
métayage1877
crofterization1907
crofterizing1908
society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > a legal holding > [noun] > a feudal holding or fief > land granted to feudal tenants
outlandOE
tenantry1794
1794 T. Davis Gen. View Agric. Wilts. 14 The abolition of common-field husbandry (or as it is called in Wiltshire ‘Tenantry’).
1794 T. Davis Gen. View Agric. Wilts. 14 Modern improvements..cannot be adopted to any extent, in lands lying in a state of tenantry.
1794 T. Davis Gen. View Agric. Wilts. 14 Tenantry yard-lands (or customary tenements)..are still subject to rights of common.
1844 Little in Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 5 i. 178 Most of these commons are now enclosed;..some still remain in pasture, and the common field husbandry, or ‘tenantry’, as it is called, is abolished.
4.
a. The body of tenants on an estate or estates. (Now the most usual sense.)
ΘΚΠ
society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > one who has tenure > [noun] > leaseholder or tenant > collectively
tenantry1628
1628 G. Wither Britain's Remembrancer vii. 752 That they have begger'd halfe their Tenantry.
1782 W. Cowper Hope in Poems 154 Kind souls! to teach their tenantry to prize What they themselves without remorse despise.
1868 J. S. Mill Eng. & Ireland 37 Those landlords who are the least useful in Ireland, and on the worst terms with their tenantry.
1875 Mrs. Randolph Wild Hyacinth I. 46 I shall introduce you to the tenantry as their future mistress.
b. transferred. A set of occupants or inhabitants.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > population > [noun]
erd-folka1325
furniture1526
inhabitation1588
population1612
peopling1622
stock1668
populace1687
habitancya1859
tenantrya1871
a1871 H. Melvill in C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David (1882) VI. Ps. cxix. 57 The tiny tenantry [of a drop of water] are carrying on their usual concerns.
1880 ‘E. Kirke’ Life J. A. Garfield 44 Under the sway of terrestrial laws, winds blow, waters flow, and all the tenantries of the planet live and move.
Compounds
C1. General attributive. (In sense 3.)
tenantry acre n.
ΚΠ
1794 T. Davis Gen. View Agric. Wilts. 61 In the common fields..the usual rule is, to allow one thousand sheep, to fold what they call a tenantry acre (about three-fourths of a statute acre) per night.
tenantry down n.
tenantry field n.
ΚΠ
1794 T. Davis Gen. View Agric. Wilts. 58 The old custom of the tenantry fields of Wiltshire was..to give a year's fallow previous to wheat.
1811 T. Davis Gen. View Agric. Wilts. (new ed.) 260 Tenantry Fields and Downs, fields and downs in a state of commonage on the ancient feudal system of copyhold tenancy.
tenantry flock n.
ΚΠ
1793 A. Young Gen. View Agric. Sussex 69 A tenantry flock [of sheep] (the joint property of several people) belonging to the parish of Denton.
tenantry land n.
ΚΠ
1853 W. D. Cooper Gloss. Provincialisms Sussex (ed. 2) 65 The proportion between the tenantry and the statute acre is very uncertain. The tenantry land was divided first into laines, of several acres in extent, with good roads..between them.
tenantry road n.
ΚΠ
1853 W. D. Cooper Gloss. Provincialisms Sussex (ed. 2) 65 The tenantry land was divided first into laines, of several acres in extent, with good roads..between them; at right angles with these were formed..tenantry roads,..dividing the laines into furlongs.
C2.
tenantry dinner n. a dinner given to the tenants on an estate.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > meal > feast > [noun] > feast given for tenants
tenantry dinner1903
1903 Westm. Gaz. 9 Jan. 7/2 The tenantry dinner.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
<
n.1385