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encroachment|ɛnˈkrəʊtʃmənt|
Also 7–8 in-.
[f. encroach v. + -ment: in AF. (1437) encrochement.]
The action of encroaching, in various senses; spec. in Law (see quot. 1613).
1523Fitzherb. Surv. 15 But and there shalbe made any new incrochmentes or intackis inclosed or taken in out of the commens. 1556J. Heywood Spider & F. xxi. 49 Ye thus.. Usurpe on vs by meane of encrochement. 1613R. C. Table Alph. (ed. 3), Encrochment, when the Lord hath gotten and seised of more rent or seruices of his tenant then of right is due. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. I. iii. 8 The people..being ready with open armes to receive the encroachments of Error. 1667Milton P.L. xii. 72 But this Usurper his encroachment proud Stayes not on Man. 1768Blackstone Comm. III. 111 Encroachment of jurisdiction, or calling one coram non judice, to answer in a court that has no legal cognizance of the cause. 1794G. Adams Nat. & Exp. Philos. IV. xliv. 201 By these incroachments the nucleus of a spot is divided into two or more nuclei. 1830H. Rogers Ess. (1850) II. iv. 199 We..find the Latin element making undue encroachments. 1878R. B. Smith Carthage 433 The intervening strip of land, narrower now than then owing to the encroachment of the waves. |