单词 | vill |
释义 | villn. 1. Law and Historical. A territorial unit or division under the feudal system, consisting of a number of houses or buildings with their adjacent lands, more or less contiguous and having a common organization; corresponding to the Anglo-Saxon tithing and to the modern township or civil parish. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > an administrative division of territory > [noun] > feudal villa1625 demi-vill1765 villate1897 a1625 H. Finch Law (1636) 261 A plea of land which is for land or other such things in demesne..must alwayes bee brought in a ville, or place knowne out of any ville. And not in a hamlet which is parcell of a vill. a1626 F. Bacon Elements Common Lawes (1630) 17 If..part of the ville is his severall, and part his waste and Common. 1672 T. Manley Νομοθετης: Cowell's Interpreter sig. Xxx2vb Vill..Is sometimes taken for a Mannor, and sometimes for a Parish, or part of it. a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) 235 There are very many more Vills and Hamlets now than there were then, and very few Villages, Towns or Parishes then, which continue not to this Day. 1721 Act Parl. in London Gaz. No. 5927/6 Any Parish, Township, Vill, or Extraparochial Place. 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. 291 The party raising it must acquaint the constable of the vill,..and thereupon the constable is to search his own town, and raise all the neighbouring vills. 1799 E. Hasted Hist. Canterbury 106 This borough [i.e. Stablegate]..was some time past erected into a ville, in order to maintain its own poor. 1839 W. B. Stonehouse Hist. Isle of Axholme 316 One or two small houses have been built here, but they are hardly sufficient to constitute a hamlet or vill. 1874 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. I. iii. 54 The social organisation of the vill may be identical perhaps with that of the mark. 1891 J. C. Atkinson Forty Years Moorland Parish (ed. 2) 87 If..there were more than one [field] within the vill. 2. poetic. A village. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > village > [noun] cotlif1001 rewa1350 villagec1386 grange1530 dorp1582 villa1700 maenor1841 a1700 T. Ken Hymnotheo in Wks. (1721) III. 383 Parochial Priests were fix'd in ev'ry Vill, Who under him should saving Truth instil. 1814 W. Wordsworth Excursion viii. 364 Among the Tenantry of Thorpe and Vill; Or straggling Burgh. View more context for this quotation 1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel II. 69 In every vill, at morning's earliest prime, To early-risers many a Hodge is seen. 1834 H. Taylor Philip van Artevelde ii. iii. ii So in field or forest, Or in wall'd town, by stipend lured, or vill Surprised and sack'd, by turns he lived at large. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > villa or country house grange1552 country housec1555 lust-house1590 aldeia1609 villa1615 bastide?1656 vill1684 family seat1712 quinta1754 1684 tr. Eutropius Breviary Rom. Hist. x. 170 [Constantine] died in a publick Vill of the City Nicomedia. 1755 T. Amory Mem. Ladies 322 He saw a vill, that seemed to him of wood, and consisted of ground-rooms. 1766 T. Amory Life John Buncle II. vi. 185 The vill here was very odd, but a charming pretty thing. The house consisted of [etc.]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1625 |
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