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ˈfreelage Obs. exc. Sc. dial.
Forms α. 3 freolac, -aic, -ec, vreoleic. β. 6 frelege, -lige, -lag(e, 7 freledge, 6–7 freelege, 9 freelage.
[OE. *fréo-lác, f. fréo, free a. + -lác: see -lock (fréolác occurs only as a compound of lác neut. oblation).
In the later β forms the suffix -lege has been substituted for OE. -lác, on the analogy of knowledge, or possibly by the same process that has led to the substitution in that instance.]
†1. = freedom in various senses: esp. in later use, a franchise or privilege. Obs.
αa1225Ancr. R. 286 Anker, of oðer freolac, haueð ibeon oðerhwules to freo of hire suluen. a1225Leg. Kath. 2366 Ha..bisohte..þæt he for his freolec, firstede hire. c1230Hali Meid. 7 Nis þis þeowdom inoh aȝain þat ilke freolaic þat ha hefde.
β1513Douglas æneis ix. iii. 47 Quhat God hes to hym grantit sik frelage? 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. III. 359 In strang presoun, but ransoun or frelag, This nobill man..[he] maid to die. 1593B. Barnes Parthenophil & P. iv. in Arb. Garner V. 341 Whom thou in person guardest! (lest suborners Should work his freelege). 1593Rites & Mon. Ch. Durh. (Surtees) 36 A frelige graunted by God and Sancte Cuthbert for every such offender to flie unto for succour. 1617in Best Farm. Bks. (Surtees) 173 Grace my wife and her mayde to have theire dyet..as they used to have when I was lyveinge, and the freledge of the gardens. 1674Ray N.C. Words 19 Freelege (Sheffield), Privilege. Immunitas.
2. Sc. dial. ‘An heritable property, as distinguished from a farm, Roxb.’ (Jam.)
attrib.1805–11A. Scott Poems 42 (Jam.) Altho' he had a freelage grant O' mony a tree, herb, flower, and plant, Yet still his breast confessed a want. |