单词 | to cut off with a shilling |
释义 | > as lemmasto cut off with a shilling 9. to cut off with a shilling: to disinherit by bequeathing a shilling (the bequest being a proof that the disinheritance was designed). ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > cause to descend by succession [verb (transitive)] > disinherit disheritc1290 disheritc1330 disheriss1489 disinherita1500 exheredate1552 to strike off with a shilling1597 disheir1607 disherison1654 to cut off with a shilling1834 to cut out1891 1710 J. Addison Tatler No. 216. ⁋15 My eldest Son John..I do disinherit and wholly cut off from any Part of this my Personal Estate, by giving him a single Cockle Shell.] 1834 T. Hood Tylney Hall (1840) 268 Vowing..to cut him off with a shilling. 1861 ‘G. Eliot’ Silas Marner iii. 46 I might get you turned out of house and home, and cut off with a shilling. < as lemmas |
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