vicinagen.
/ˈvɪsᵻnɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈvɪsn̩ɪdʒ/ 1. figurative.1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar v. §24 That soul that..invites an enemy to view its possessions and live in the vicinage, loves the sin itself.
a. A number of places lying near to each other taken collectively; an area extending to a limited distance round a particular spot; a neighbourhood.Usually with the, this, or similar word, but occasionally with a or in plural.
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the world > space > distance > nearness > [noun] > that which or one who is near > a near place > neighbourhood (of a place)
vicinagea1325
neighbourhoodc1450
precincts1479
neighboured1555
verge1641
adjacency1646
voisinage1649
environsc1660
vicinity1781
a1325 Statutes of Realm in MS Rawl. B.520 f. 54v Somune þoru gode somunse .xii. fre men ant trewe of uesinage of .N.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Vicinage, vicinia, uicinetum.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ii. 136 King Ethelred..began the tryal of Causes by a Jury of twelve men to be chosen out of the Vicenage.
1685 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) II. 376 All our most able and Eminent Doctors of this Vicinage.
c1700 J. Pomfret Poet. Wks. (1833) 37 Adam by an injured Maker driven From Eden's groves, the vicinage of Heaven.
1777 W. Dalrymple Trav. Spain & Portugal cxx The regiments are..recruited from the vicinage.
1791 E. Burke Appeal New to Old Whigs 37 The Metropolis and its Vicinage.
1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon v. 216 All such other parts of the district as at this time are..open to all the inhabitants of the vicinage.
a1853 W. Jay Autobiogr. (1854) iv. 37 So it was with the vicinages all around Marlborough.
1868 B. J. Lossing Hudson (new ed.) 1 The agricultural and mineral treasures of its vicinage.
b. Frequently in the phrase in the (also, this, our, etc.) vicinage.
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1638 R. Baker tr. J. L. G. de Balzac New Epist. II. 182 I am afraid of a Potgunne or a Squibbe; farre from running upon Muskets and Swords points as they say in our Vicinage.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Yorks. 187 No less than twenty thousand Pounds worth of this Coarse Commodity [i.e. lime] is yearly made, and vended in the Vicinage.
1676 Doctr. of Devils 92 Until he have gotten the favour and blessing of all the Witches in the Vicinage, yea in the Hemisphere.
1747 S. Richardson Clarissa I. xxxiv. 230 She is the only flower of fragrance, that has blown in this vicinage for ten years past.
1791 H. Walpole Let. to Misses Berry 11 Sept. (1840) VI. 455 The French ladies in my vicinage.
1814 W. Scott Waverley I. x. 129 He had lived in retirement, conversing almost entirely with those of his own principles in the vicinage . View more context for this quotation
1861 A. Beresford-Hope Eng. Cathedral of 19th Cent. viii. 274 The..recommendation of a sufficient population in the vicinage.
1883 Manch. Examiner 3 Oct. 5/4 People in the vicinage..were not in a mood to regard it as a gratuitous picturesque display.
c. transferred. The people living in a certain district or neighbourhood.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > inhabitant of a district or parish > [noun] > collectively
shirea1122
parishc1300
sidec1325
commona1382
community1426
township1443
vicinage1647
county1651
countryside1669
sucken1872
1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 262 Barrons shall be amerced by their Peeres, others by the vicinage.
1672 H. Stubbe Rosemary & Bayes 17 I could wish they would not disturb the visinage with declamations against Mr. Calvin.
1796 E. Burke Two Lett. Peace Regicide Directory France i. 115 Where there is no constituted judge,..the vicinage itself is the natural judge.
1821 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 8 Dec. 1394 Relying, for influence, not upon the good will of the vicinage, but upon the dread of their power.
1836 Ld. Cockburn Jrnl. 29 June (1874) I. iv. 122 Towns and their rustic vicinages are agitating against this measure.
1862 J. Thrupp Anglo-Saxon Home 269 The vicinage applied..to the bishop for leave to dig up the body and burn it.
2. The fact of being or living close to another or others; nearness, proximity:
a. Of persons; spec. in Law as entitling to certain rights of common.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > [noun] > together > close to others or another
vicinage1523
1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng vi. f. vv Commen appendant commen appurtenaunt, commen in grose, and commen per cause de vicynage.
1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie i. iii. sig. C7v Ile wincke at Robrus, that for vicenage Enters commen, on his next neighbors stage.
1602 W. Fulbecke Parallele or Conf. Law i. 14 If I prescribe to haue common because of vicinage in such a village.
1626 S. Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. in Wks. (Grosart) IV. 101 By reason of the vicinage, and innumerous populacie of that Nation.
1679 J. Goodman Penitent Pardoned (1713) i. ii. 30 As if his father's presence or vicinage would put too great a restraint upon him.
1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. 33 Common because of vicinage, or neighbourhood, is where the inhabitants of two townships, which lie contiguous to each other, have usually intercommoned with one another.
1823 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 13 Sept. 656 The tarred, and trowsered, and blue-and-buff crew whose very vicinage I always detest.
1830 J. Mackintosh Partition of Poland in Wks. (1846) II. 338 In a declaration delivered at Warsaw, Catherine declared, that she did nothing but in virtue of the right of vicinage, acknowledged by all nations.
1891 J. Winsor Columbus xvi. 357 St. Augustine, St. Basil, and St. Ambrose had placed the Garden of Eden far in the Old World's east, apart from the common vicinage of men.
b. Of things or places.
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the world > space > distance > nearness > [noun]
sideOE
nighnessOE
propinquity?a1425
neighboured1440
neighbourshipc1485
nearnessc1545
vicinity1560
neighbourhood1567
proximity1579
affinity1612
appropinquity1646
voisinage1665
vicinage1686
proximation1802
proximateness1881
1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica i. ix. 34 I began to guess the Reason of its Activity, as borrowed from the vicinage of the warmer Corpuscles.
1696 W. Whiston New Theory of Earth iv. 280 The particular Prerogatives..do not intirely depend on..the Vicinage of the Central Heat.
1826 W. Cobbett Poor Man's Friend ii Are they, now, to complain, if the vicinage of these same works causes a charge of rates there?
1844 B. Disraeli Coningsby III. vi. ii. 11 The common white pottery..will not bear vicinage to a brisk kitchen fire for half an hour.
1880 Scribner's Monthly Mar. 660/2 The vicinage of the traveling studio was an occasion and a pretext for unprecedented larks.
3. in the vicinage of, near or contiguous to, in the neighbourhood of. Cf. vicinity n. 4.
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the world > space > distance > nearness > near to [preposition] > in the vicinity of
aboutOE
in the vicinage of1784
in the vicinity (of)1796
1784 H. Cowley Bold Stroke for Husband (London ed.) v. ii. 69 In the vicinage of Rosalva, bounded on the west by the river.
1789 Trans. Soc. Arts (ed. 2) 1 151 If I had had any in the vicinage of my plantation.
1812 J. J. Henry Accurate Acct. Campaign against Quebec 99 The Canadians in the vicinage of Quebec lived as comfortably.
1830 G. Croly George IV 412 The length of canal navigation in the vicinage of London.
1852 H. Rogers Eclipse of Faith 151 They had become a centre and a source..of moral pestilence, in the vicinage of which it was unsafe for men to dwell.
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