| 单词 | burgess-town |
| 释义 | > as lemmasburgess-town burgess-town n. now historical and rare a town of sufficient size or importance to have burgesses (in various senses). ΚΠ 1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos vii. sig. U.ivv Togither [come] Amyterna manred strong, & burgeis townes, And all Mutuska strength. 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 22 Sixeteene moath-eaten burgesse townes. 1682 G. Wheler Journey into Greece vi. 448 [It] was reckoned one of the..Burgess-Towns of the Athenians. 1721 Lay-man's Plain Remarks 29 The Statute of Omri..banished those, whom they had before expos'd to Want and Misery, from Cities and Burgess Towns. 1886 W. P. Dickson tr. T. Mommsen Provinces Rom. Empire I. 68 In the Tarraconensis the burgess-towns are found predominantly on the coast. 1955 I. Bell in T. Parry Hist. Welsh Lit. 128 Every burgess-town of this kind received special privileges in the matter of trade and commerce. < as lemmas |
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