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ˈtelligraph Hist. [ad. med. (Anglo-) L. telligraphum, -ium, irreg. f. L. tellus land: see -graph.] A description of the boundaries of land; a charter of lands in which the bounds are described: = terrier n.1
[816in Haddan & Stubbs Councils (1871) III. 582 Tamen serventur libros primordiales cum aliis telligraffis, ne inposterum aliquod scrupulum contraditionis innitere conantur. 1783Reeves Hist. Eng. Law i. i. 8 An Anglo-Saxon charter of land has also been called Telligraphum,..but this appellation has been given to them most likely since the Conquest, as a translation of the word Landboc.] 1882W. Beamont Domesday Bk. (ed. 2) Introd. 6 The witnesses would probably produce the teligraphs by which they held their lands. 1903G. F. Browne St. Aldhelm 249 These land-books were sometimes called telligraphs, a word which sounds curiously modern. |