单词 | burgessy |
释义 | burgessyn. Now rare. 1. The state or fact of being a burgess; burgess-ship. historical in later use. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of specific class, person, or place > [noun] > status or rights of being a citizen burgessy1340 civilityc1384 franchisea1400 burgess-shipa1450 free burghership?1555 citizenship1611 cit1679 burghership1725 citizenhood1851 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 161 Mannes lyf ine þe erþe is ase borgeysye. a1450 in F. W. Willmore Hist. Walsall (1887) 166 (MED) Then he so offendyng immediatly be discharged of his or theyer Burgessye or Burgesship. 1533 J. Bartelot Let. in State Papers Henry VIII (P.R.O.: SP 1/238) f. 110 The Maire and Aldermen..disfraunchised me of my Burgeissey there. 1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 577 This word policie..somtime it signifieth a Burgesie [Fr. bourgeoisie]..the participation and enioying of the rights and priuileges of a towne. 1606 A. Craig Amorose Songes sig. A iii Alexander disdayned the Corinthian Ambassaders, who offered him the Freedome and Burgeosie of their Citie. 1636 E. Dacres tr. N. Machiavel Disc. Livy II. xxiii. 381 They..honourd them [sc. the Privernates] with all the priviledges of their Bourgessie. 1700 T. Southerne Fate of Capua i. i The citizens of Rome and Capua Enjoying common rights of burghesie. 1755 J. Mills tr. J. B. L. Crevier Hist. Rom. Emperors III. vii. 87 They obtained leave to send deputies to the emperor, to plead before him their right of burgessy. 1911 Amer. Hist. Rev. 16 663 Payments for acquisition of burgessy or recovery of rights thereof. 1923 W. S. Davis Life Mediæval Barony xxi. 353 Many towns received not a full charter, but ‘rights of burgessy’—e.g., guaranties against various common forms of oppression. 2. Burgesses collectively; = bourgeoisie n. Now rare (chiefly Music in later use). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > [noun] > middle class or bourgeoisie burgessy1533 menalty1548 middle class1654 middling class1745 middling1751 bourgeoise1769 bourgeoisie1774 petite bourgeoisie1846 petty bourgeoisie1850 middling interest1857 upper middle class1864 middle-middle-class1886 well-heeled1897 small bourgeoisie1970 1533 J. Bartelot Let. in State Papers Henry VIII (P.R.O.: SP 1/238) f. 108 I..oon of the burgesye of the lower sorte..and other of the Burgesie. 1602 R. Cecil Let. 20 May in Special & Ann. Rep. (Vestry, United Parish St. Margaret & St. John, Westminster) (1889) 109 To my loving friendes the balie and Burgessie of the cittie of Westm'ter. 1785 G. Forster tr. A. Sparrman Voy. Cape Good Hope I. i. 51 On the 11th, the whole burgessy turned out into the field. 1850 Secret Societies Mod. Europe 2 in Chambers's Papers for People II The champions of the burgessy, Lafayette, Bailly, and Roland. 1868 in Christian Work Aug. 368/1 The olden time, when the flower of the nobility and burgesy, and the almost total population of certain provinces, professed Protestantism. 1909 Iowa City Citizen 18 Oct. 2/5 Let the revolution come..but do not leave it in the hands of a burgessy as odious as reactionary. 1928 Musical Times 69 890/1 He [sc. Schubert] is pre-eminently the middle-class composer, not only because he belonged to the burgessy, but because his art represents the burgessy as it had never been represented in music before. 1961 A. Hutchings Baroque Concerto i. 21 Such listeners among the nobility and burgessy swelled audiences for chamber music when it became orchestral. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1340 |
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